Hello Matthew, that´s the New World philosophy which has found more & more friends in the Old World also, but isn´t it much better, if one has found fitting a mouthpiece. That he or she adapt nherself or himself to this mouthpiece instead of changing the equipment over & over. It will better nothing, preconditioned the mouthpiece is a real horn mouthpiece & not some trumpeter like mouthpiece with thin bore (below 4,3 mms) and wide rim (over 4mms) & overall wide (over 1"). I see so many mouthpieces which will never allow a proper horn tone but anything else from fart to whistle (proper horn mouthpieces allow such also) but never a nice, velvet horn tone in a colour (when playing brassy) much below a trumpets brightness but also much above a trombones dark colour & never like a tuba even playing very low. And never with a pinching sound.
Rule: if the equipment is right (so-so), then men has to adapt to equipment & not equipment to men, - with exceptions due to physical special conditions. ============================================================ ================================================ -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mathew James Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 7:02 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] mouthpiece kit You could experiment with getting Tom to cut the rim. My moose has exchangeable rims. I played around at first, but found a set up that suits my horn and playing. That is always a possibility. True you cant play with cup size, but it does open up the possibilities to play with the rim. On 6/21/07, Allen Smithson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm probably going to get the mouthpiece plated but I'd like to try > some different rim and cup sizes to see if there isn't another style > I'd like better. The mouthpiece I've been using is the second > mouthpiece that I have owned and I've been playing on it for five > years. However, I do like how the mouthpiece plays. Is it worth my while to search for something new? > > --------------------------------- > Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell. > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hornboy101%40 gmail.com > -- Mathew James _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
