I intend to keep playing both, so I'm just trying to educate myself. I wish I had a better formed question(s) than I do, truth be told. I'm trying to make switching work as well as possible without "cheating", e.g., if using a certain mpc on the trumpet makes switching easier but will hinder certain aspects of trumpet playing, that's the kind of thing I want to know and to avoid - better switching should be harder than I should end up slighting my playing on the second instrument.
It seems that this all boils down to personal preference, and maybe I've already got all the info I need. Time to ask less and practice more for me. -S- On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Debbie Schmidt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/steve.freides%40gmail.com > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
