Well, since I started out as a trumpet player and bounced back and forth between trumpet and horn all the way through college, I'll chime in...
Most trumpets are shipped with a 7C mouthpiece and there is a reason for it. The 7C seems to be the most neutral mouthpiece, it gives decent tone and is tight enough that beginners can get some range out of it. In general, I think most trumpet players work their way down to a 5C or 3C as they mature. I played a 3C back in high school and early on in college. For you, I would say start with the 7C and work from there. With that said, my current trumpet mouthpiece preference is a double cup Parduba #5 (Harry James model). I played a lot of jazz in college, and the Parduba made it easier to reach those notes up in the stratosphere but still gave me a decent sound (unlike, say a Shilke 14A4A, which provides great range but all the tone of an ice pick). I have a King Silver Flair and a Getzen "Doc Severinsen" model. They're both relatively large bore trumpets and the Parduba mouthpiece works well with either of them. The Parduba is a difficult mouthpiece to master, but once learned they are a joy to play. For the horn, I play a Yamaha 31-GP mated to a late 1960's Olds double horn. I don't know if this is a good combination or not, but it works for me. The horn isn't the best, but, stupidly, I sold my Holton Farkas after I graduated from college. When I was asked to pick the horn up again, the Old was all I could afford. I have found that I CANNOT switch between the two instruments in the same session. I play in a community band and like most small bands, we have holes in our instrumentation and some folks have to do double duty. I tried switching between horn and trumpet and I just can't do it. Not only does my embouchure not switch quickly, I get "confused" because, what on the trumpet was a C is now an F and suddenly I can't hear the notes in my head before I play them and that screws me up even more. I'm an engineer, not a professional musician, so I don't know if being one would make horn-hopping any more doable. Matt ---- Debbie Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/mwieczorek%40neo.rr.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
