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ALETRUMPET Regular Member
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 8:59 am Post subject: shires 3c |
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I have heard great things about this mouthpiece. Looks like a copy of MT Vernon. It seems that the only flaw is the very sharp edge. Does anyone know him? |
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Riojazz Heavyweight Member
Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 1015 Location: Mid-Hudson Valley, NY
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 2:25 pm Post subject: |
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If you mean, do we know the mouthpiece, I do. Assuming it's like the one Shires gave me in 2020 when I bought a horn, it's a Pickett Blackburn 3. Yes, the rim might be called a bit sharp, but it's a perfectly playable 3C size piece. I have no way of comparing it to a Mt. Vernon 3C.
Here's info: https://www.pickettblackburn.com/mouthpieces-trumpet-c-107_108/1-piece-trumpet-mouthpiece-p-349.html _________________ Matt Finley https://mattfinley.bandcamp.com/releases
Kanstul 1525 flugel with French taper, Shires Bb Destino Med & C trumpets, Schilke XA1 cornet, Schagerl rotary, Schilke P5-4 picc, Yamaha soprano sax, Powell flute. Sanborn GR66MS & Touvron-D. |
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bike&ed Heavyweight Member
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Posted: Mon Mar 27, 2023 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Within the past year or 2 I have had a Shires 3C, Shires 1.5C, and Schagerl 3C. While none of them were quite my cup of tea (been using a few ACB MV3C’s for awhile now), all 3 of them were really impressive mouthpieces. Great sound and playability, not sure that they’re Mt. Vernon replicas, but they were competitive with much pricier models including Mt. Vernons. May as well give it a try! |
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BreakFromTheHerd Veteran Member
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:02 am Post subject: |
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A Shires 3C came with my Shires Q horn. I couldn't handle the sharp bite. I emailed Pickett about the piece. They responded and said it's different from their Pickett 3C, although they do manufacture it for Shires. |
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Posts: 9028 Location: Hawai`i - Texas
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2023 8:14 am Post subject: |
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What is it about a Bach 3C that you want to change?
And an aside, but I think that sometimes we give too much attention to "magic dates" on horns and mouthpieces. I have a current Bach mpc. that is a little different that a similarly labeled mpc. from a "magic dates" Golden Era and I prefer my current mpc.
It's how it plays and feels, not necessarily the dates. _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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Riojazz Heavyweight Member
Joined: 25 Dec 2006 Posts: 1015 Location: Mid-Hudson Valley, NY
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2023 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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BreakFromTheHerd wrote: | A Shires 3C came with my Shires Q horn. I couldn't handle the sharp bite. I emailed Pickett about the piece. They responded and said it's different from their Pickett 3C, although they do manufacture it for Shires. | Yes, I agree with this. They told me it is not the same piece, but it's very close. _________________ Matt Finley https://mattfinley.bandcamp.com/releases
Kanstul 1525 flugel with French taper, Shires Bb Destino Med & C trumpets, Schilke XA1 cornet, Schagerl rotary, Schilke P5-4 picc, Yamaha soprano sax, Powell flute. Sanborn GR66MS & Touvron-D. |
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ALETRUMPET Regular Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:04 am Post subject: |
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I arrive today. Great mouthpiece, warm, full sound... my impossible edge. So sharp it looks like a knife. At least for me useless. Maybe you need to round the edge. I will try to round the edge slightly. |
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JMWTpt Regular Member
Joined: 25 Oct 2009 Posts: 40 Location: Concord Township Ohio
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:50 am Post subject: shires 3c |
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It seems that in performance of a mouthpiece, everything affects everything else. No single parameter is truly or broadly independent. So, I respectfully suggest that you proceed in very small steps with any modifications and test identically and for a while the total effects that result. I speak from experience and have a few mouthpiece/fishing sinkers labeled 1-1/2C and 3C.
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BreakFromTheHerd Veteran Member
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Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:24 am Post subject: |
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ALETRUMPET wrote: | I arrive today. Great mouthpiece, warm, full sound... my impossible edge. So sharp it looks like a knife. At least for me useless. Maybe you need to round the edge. I will try to round the edge slightly. |
Yeah, it's quite sharp. Reminds me of the Carol Brass 3C, which is equally nasty. |
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enrico Regular Member
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 6:52 am Post subject: |
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It looks to me like the same rim as the current Bach 3C. I don't find it cutting or sharper than the Bach. |
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MisterBighorn Regular Member
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Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2023 2:08 pm Post subject: |
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enrico wrote: | It looks to me like the same rim as the current Bach 3C. I don't find it cutting or sharper than the Bach. |
You might have thicker lips than me and/or your dental structure does not create a pressure point. I had a Shires 3C and had to sell it. |
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3861 Regular Member
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Posted: Mon May 15, 2023 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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I just got a new Schires 3C. It doesn't seem to me to have any more of a cutting edge than the modern Bach 3C. Sounds like a great sounding mouthpiece to me. |
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trickg Heavyweight Member
Joined: 02 Jan 2002 Posts: 5680 Location: Glen Burnie, Maryland
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Posted: Tue May 16, 2023 5:25 am Post subject: |
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3861 wrote: | I just got a new Schires 3C. It doesn't seem to me to have any more of a cutting edge than the modern Bach 3C. Sounds like a great sounding mouthpiece to me. |
I had one that was included with the Shires Model B that was issued to me. I didn't particularly like it - the rim was a bit sharper than the rims on the either the Curry or ACB 3Cs that I have, although it seemed to be a decent enough mouthpiece for C trumpet.
I retire from the Guard band soon, so I turned that horn in last week. I could easily have kept that mouthpiece, but I didn't. I cleaned and polished it, put it back in the little 2 mouthpiece pouch that had been included with the horn, and put it all back in the case with the trumpet. _________________ Patrick Gleason
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