Guy Hayden wrote:
Not being a brass player, I find this suggestion difficult to understand. Can you describe it a bit more clearly? Do you blow across the "wrong" end of the mouthpiece like blowing across a beer bottle? What I cannot figure is the idea of "inverting" the mouthpiece. Aren't they the same all the way around? Do you mean "reverse" the mouthpiece?
What I don't understand is a trumpet which is totally silent when someone takes the mouthpiece off and simply blows into the mouthpiece receiver -- I've got a $4000 C trumpet and a $3000 Bb trumpet and a $1500 flugelhorn and they ALL make a windy sound when I blow into them with enough energy.
There's no need to use a mouthpiece at all. If you do as has been suggested and reverse the mouthpiece so you're blowing into the backbore and the cup is placed over the receiver you don't have to work as hard to get a windy sound, but the pitch of that windy sound is different than what is produced by simply blowing into the receiver.
-- David H. Bailey dhbai...@davidbaileymusicstudio.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
