What are you trying to do? Are you trying to learn from horn players about trumpet mpcs? Are you trying to make an easier transition to trumpet , will you be switching between the two horns ? If you are looking for technical info google "mouthpiece comparison chart" and either horn or trumpet. That should give you a better idea. In general trumpet players start on Bach mpcs and many of my colleagues still play Bach's. Like horn there are a myriad of speciality mouthpiece manufactures .
Debbie Schmidt Sent from my iPhone On Jul 31, 2010, at 9:49 AM, Steve Freides <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Kerri Bridges <[email protected]> wrote: >> Matt's email made just want to chime in. I had the same problem when I first >> started playing horn in addition to the clarinet. I could play each >> instrument in separate sittings but trying to switch between both in a >> single sitting didn't work. My ' F' ear would be gone and if I did hit the >> right notes on the horn, they'd be even more sharper than normal. >> >> It's probably not just an engineer thing. I noticed that most musical pit >> books double on the winds or brass (minus horn) while horn is in its own >> book. >> >> Kerri (now 90% horn, 10% clarinet) > > I haven't tried to play both back to back just yet, but I'm one of > those geeks who reads everything at concert pitch so I don't expect > that part of it to be too difficult for me. Horn is mezzo-soprano > clef and one additional flat, trumpet is tenor clef and two additional > flats. (I know, it would drive some of you crazy to read this way. > Rest assured that the drive to crazy is a very short trip in my case.) > > Back to my original question: I know that trumpet and horn mpc's have > very different shapes, but it would be helpful to know a few things > about measurements or dimensions that are comparable, e.g., I'm > getting the feeling that, generally speaking, French Horn mpc rim > diameters might be similar but a little larger than trumpet - is that > a fair generalization to make? It's sounding like it might be time > for me to know the actual dimension of the horn mpc I play, which is > made by esteemed list member Herr Pizka, and how different or not that > one is from a 'normal' horn mpc as well. > > A possibly unrelated observation: I have picked the horn and mpc I > play because, at my stage of development, the most important > characteristic isn't what make me necessarily sound best, but what I > feel offers me the most feedback about my playing technique. Hans' > mouthpiece, for me, seems to offer both better and worse playing than > I got from other mpcs I tried, and that feels like a good thing as I > try to improve. I own two horns and the one I play on is, without a > doubt, the worse of the two, but I find that when I play on the better > one for a few weeks, my playing gets worse, almost as if I start > letting the horn do some of the work for me. > > I have no idea if any of the above makes any sense, but that is how it > seems to me. We now return you to your previously scheduled > programming. :) > > -S- > > -S- > _______________________________________________ > 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
