Just one data point for you. My son started trumpet at age 8 and added French Horn at age 10. We paid no great attention to the mouthpiece or embouchure of one working like the other, and he did just fine. He took first place at both the county and region level on both trumpet and French Horn in 8th grade - it was a good double for him at the time.
When he got to high school, he choose to focus on trumpet, and his trumpet teacher insisted he stop playing French Horn, so that's what happened, and it's all turned out just fine to date. He went through a pretty standard progression of trumpet mpc's - started on a 7C, I think, then a 3C, then a 1C (and now plays on his teacher's specific recommendation a 1-1/4C with some custom drilling). His horn mpc was a Yamaha 30C4 - which always felt like a pea shooter to me (read: tiny) but it's a pretty common mpc and he did very well with it. We thank French Horn teacher and esteemed list member Chris Wilhjelm for all his good advice and teaching for our son. -S- On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:31 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Any advice from listers on this question asked of me: Is there any > standard trumpet mouthpiece that would be a better choice for a 9yr-old > beginning trumpet player thinking of switching to horn in a few years? > > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/steve.freides%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
