Does anyone ever play a trumpet with a horn mpc fitted with a connector? On 7/29/2010 10:54 AM, Steve Freides wrote: > 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/goldberg%40wccnet.org >
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