I've started playing the trumpet and would like opinions on trumpet mouthpieces that might be good/better for a French Horn player.
NB: What's good/better is obviously subjective, so please offer your reasons as well as your choices. My experience over the last couple of days: I found Bach 1C, 3C, and 7C mpc's here (my son's a trumpet player so no lack of instruments or mpc's). They all felt about the same, but the sound was different, and the sound of the 7C seemed best to me. Then I found a Yamaha, Mark Gould mpc - the clear winner for me. Felt great, sounded fine, too. I asked a trumpet player about this and he observed that the Mark Gould has a fairly wide rim, deep cup, and large backbore, more along the lines of what he though a flugelhorn mpc would have, and that also seems right to me, since a flugel seems like a step from a trumpet in the direction of French Horn. No flame wars, please, no telling me I'm nuts for starting to play the trumpet or playing both, no telling me I'm going to ruin my non-career playing either instrument and the like, just recommendations for mouthpieces to try now and, if you feel it's good to start on one, get used to it, then maybe try another in a few weeks or months, that'd be appreciated, too. Thanks in advance. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
