No the funnel shaped mpc gives the "wrong" sound Debbie Schmidt Sent from my iPhone
On Jul 29, 2010, at 4:18 PM, David Goldberg <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/jasoncat%40aol.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
