Do you have a duplicate backup mouthpiece?

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What I mean is, do you have a duplicate of your main mouthpiece as a back up in case something happens to the one you play?
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Mortakye · Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject:

Yes, but only because I play an old Purviance mouthpiece and it would take to long to get a replacement if something happened to it. Easy to order, not so easy to run into a local music store and find.
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etc-etc · Heavyweight Member Joined: 19 Jan 2008 Posts: 6191

Duplicate of a backup makes it a triplicate.

nyctrumpeter · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:46 am Post subject:

Craig Swartz · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:23 am Post subject:

Not really. I have 4 Schilke 19s, one w/C that's been opened up a bit, one w/Bb, one in the car and one with my cornet. I never made much fuss to see that they were some sort of duplicate except that they're gold plated. Seem to work for me.

hansonsf · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Jun 2006 Posts: 670

I have 3 Schilke 13A4a's (two gold plated) and 1 13A4. I keep an extra in my gig bag.

Wes Clarke · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:47 am Post subject:

I have three Bach 3C pieces. One in each of two cases and one in the car (or pocket, or office) that I use primarily for buzzing. I know there are those trumpet players out there who could play them and say, "You've got three very different mouthpieces." But, I can't tell a bit of difference in the three. One dates from the mid 1990s and the other two are fairly new. I had a 3C in the mid 1970s but have no idea where it is so I cannot compare it to the ones I use now.
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Mike Lockman · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:52 am Post subject:

Since my mouthpieces cost $150.00 a piece, I cannot afford a back-up.
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plp · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 7:56 am Post subject:

No, while I have backup setups that are very similar, they are usually not the same mouthpieces. I have a Stork SM that is almost identical to a Warburton setup, except for the rims, throats, and backbores.

They are pretty much interchangable for the response and tonal characteristics.
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trumpetmike · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 2:52 pm Post subject:

I wish I did!

I went off to a rehearsal by train tonight - finished teaching early and thought it would be nice to go by train rather than cope with the hassle of parking. I got to the rehearsal and found no mouthpiece pouch (which contains ALL the mouthpieces I use regularly). The rehearsal was in a church so the language used was a great deal less floried than what I was thinking!
I have a very nasty feeling it slipped out of my bag on the train because it is not anywhere at home and not in the bag I was carrying.
Oh bother!!!!

I have found a spare Bb mouthpiece, but not piccolo, Eb, flugel or cornet - nor the prototype cornet-sound trumpet mouthpiece that I have been working on with Denis Wick.

I am now hoping that I can get hold of the train company tomorrow and am praying that they have been found and handed in.
If not, it could be the most expensive train journey I have ever undertaken!

Rehearsal was done on a "found" 7C - I have remembered how much I hate the 7C size

lburrows · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 3:06 pm Post subject:

I sent my regular Bach 3C trumpet mouthpiece to Kanstul to scan, so I know that I can get an exact duplicate if need be.

I do however have three trumpet Bach 3Cs in total, my regular one (which I keep in my Bach flugel/trumpet case), another in the case of my spare trumpet, and a third in my single trumpet case, which I transfer my regular trumpet into, when I don't need to carry a flugel. I could probably do with another one, so that I can do what I do with my three cornets, which is to have a Bach 3C cornet mouthpiece in the case of each cornet, in addition to my regular cornet mouthpiece (a Kanstul custom mouthpiece, which is the cup end of my Bach 3C cornet mouthpiece, combined with Kanstul's B10 cornet backbore in a copy of the blank of one of my Bach 3C cornet mouthpieces. I can therefore get an exact duplicate of this mouthpiece as well, if anything happens to the original), which I move between cases.

I only ever use on of my Bach 3C trumpet mouthpieces, swapping my regular one with the one in the other case, when I use my spare trumpet or single trumpet case, so that each case always has a mouthpiece, but having four cornet mouthpieces for three cornet cases, means that I can keep one in each as a spare, and swap my regular one between cases.

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Yes...but then again, I don't play Monettes!

qcm · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:03 pm Post subject:

I have 3 Schilke 14s' and 3 Schilke 13Bs'.

Two each for trumpet and one each for cornet, although these days I use either a Wick 4BW or Curry 5DC for cornet.

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plp · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:05 pm Post subject:

mcgovnor · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject: hee hee hee hee

"I sent my regular Bach 3C trumpet mouthpiece to Kanstul to scan, so I know that I can get an exact duplicate if need be".

Zman · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:00 pm Post subject:

Ok reading this thread is making me paranoid now.....

Perhaps I should get a backup......but then again that's why I am always asking for Al Cass pieces in the marketplace.

These pieces obviously are a small fortune (but totally worth the price tag IMO) plus it's hard to get duplicates.

What does a scan of a piece run these days?
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mcgovnor · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:05 pm Post subject: ughh

might cost u your life................

pedaltonekid · Heavyweight Member Joined: 15 Nov 2001 Posts: 1711

I have many mouthpieces that are very close so I don't have exact duplicates. I used to do that and when I was playing Schilke 20 pieces I had about 5 of them.
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mcgovnor · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:45 pm Post subject: yes

In my experience, it is best to bypass the adrenalin temptation and expense, and simply find another mouthpiece by the same manufacturer that you can pick up and play, back and forth, best.
It's not that difficult to find, and it's actually kind of fun, especially when you do it when working, playing one pass on one, and then the same pass on another, successfully.

Riojazz · Posted: Wed Apr 22, 2009 5:54 pm Post subject:

I voted Yes although that's not technically correct, but the collection of similar Warburton parts allows me to substitute with no effects.
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