Giardinelli made several lines based upon then famous horn players mouthpieces. Most of them were narrow inner diameters in the 16.8-17mm range. The exception was definitely the Jimmy Stagliano (J) series. It has an ID of about 18.3mm. Stagliano primarily played an Alex 103 for his career which one wouldn't normally suspect from such a huge mouthpiece. The Singer models (S) were fairly deep and convex cup but tended to be a smaller bore in maybe a 15-16 range. Ken Betts has stated that they work pretty well bored out to an 11. Singer was a long time principal horn of the NY Philharmonic prior to James Chambers.
The G series was the Gunther Schuller series and came stock at a very tiny 17 bore. Schuller also played an Alex 103 but this mouthpiece is nothing like the Staliano J series! All of these models can still be purchased from John Stork (storkcustom.com) who was Bob Giardinelli's custom mouthpiece maker and to whom Bob gave his mouthpiece data book. Bob Osmun (osmun.com) makes an excellent copy of the Stagliano mouthpiece as well. The Jack Attack! On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 11:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Message: 5 > Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:11:44 -0800 (PST) > From: Christopher Mudd <[email protected]> > Subject: [Hornlist] Joe Singer mouthpieces > > Hello All!!! > Can anyone tell me info about the Joe Singer mouthpieces that were/are made > by Giarlinelli? > I would also like to know if anyone knows if any models made by Giardinelli > had 18mm rim diameters? > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
