Pipe shapes for blend types

[DesertDan]

I do notice that I prefer certain blends best in particular pipes and when I am getting to know a new blend, I smoke it in cob, briar and meerschaum to determine if it performs/tastes best in a certain type. For example, I prefer burley-forward blends and cherry aromatics in cobs. I prefer both Silem's Black and Capstan Blue in a briar pipe, but I prefer Capstan in a shallow bowl and Silem's in a deep bowl. It also seems to me that aromatics are much more temperamental about bowl size/depth than English blends.

I have also found that course blends like BCF typically take an ember more readily and burn better in wide bowls. Whereas thin ribbon cuts and cube cuts work best for me in narrower ones.
I have also noticed that, in general, briar tends to concentrate the flavors in a blend whereas cob and meerschaum often allow a blend to "open up" and in those cases allow me to detect the nuances of the blend a bit better.

I realize that this is a poor explanation and is also very subjective so my apologies for any lack of clarity.

 

[OzPiper]

I seldom smoke the same tobacco back-to-back
Last Sunday I smoked a chopped up Vincent Manil semois cigar in a Danish stack followed by a Comoy pot. (See Sunday's WAYS posts 3539, 3542 and 3545)

I preferred the Danish stack as I felt the flavour was more "focused".
Apologies for the inadequate descriptor as I haven't developed an appropriate vocabulary for tasting tobacco yet.

Other variables are the airway diameter
And (possibly) pipe material eg meerschaum or clay or morta vs briar.
With the latter, I find that once the pipe has been broken in, differences tend to be minimised.