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dlouiek1
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:03 am    Post subject: Confidence Reply with quote

I find that playing piccolo trumpet is easier to center a note compared
to my Bb Bach. I use the same mouthpiece for both.
There is more back pressure on my piccolo. Notes are easier to locate. I am using a Dennis Wick 3C mouthpiece.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 9:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

That might be due to the harmonics on a pic being spread further apart from each other than on a standard Bb (especially from G above the staff and higher).
Having a larger pitch/frequency spread between harmonics helps to establish the desired pitch by NOT having a resonant harmonic easily being sounded which is near a desired note that is played slightly off-pitch.
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PostPosted: Tue Mar 16, 2021 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Some brand/model Bb trumpets have looser slots than others that could lead you to feel that note centering is easier. I've also found that adjusting the mouthpiece gap can alter your perception of note centering.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 10:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As Jay said the Bb and the picc are quite different in the upper register.

With the Bb the lower register slots easily but when you move into the upper register you move out of the register in which notes slot easily and precisely according to valve combinations.

In effect you dont need to use the valves in the upper register with a Bb although you can.

The picc however in the upper register is in its native register where valve selection determines the pitch played.

Slotting is therefore predictable in a picc in the upper register where it is less predictable with Bb in the upper register.

Having said that I would not expect the Bb to slot like a picc slots in any register.

Instruments slot differently

One of the reasons the picc is chosen to play upper register is its precision in that register compared to Bb.

Thats my 2c anyway
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bflatman wrote:

In effect you dont need to use as many valves in the upper register with a Bb although you can.


Fixed that for you.. the first statement you had made is not empirically true.

Also, the piccolo is pitched one octave higher than the Bb trumpet. This is why it slots well and offers security. The Bb trumpet's upper register is the picc's low to mid register.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 17, 2021 12:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most kind of you AJ

I always welcome corrections from more knowledgeable members.

I find it most disconcerting to waggle my fingers and it have no effect on the tones emerging.

My first response is to suspect that the laws of physics have stopped operating in the bell of my instrument but then I come to realise its just the upper register playing me again like a cat plays with a mouse.

Thank you sir for that correction.
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 18, 2021 11:52 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Bflatman wrote:
Most kind of you AJ

I always welcome corrections from more knowledgeable members.

I find it most disconcerting to waggle my fingers and it have no effect on the tones emerging.

My first response is to suspect that the laws of physics have stopped operating in the bell of my instrument but then I come to realise its just the upper register playing me again like a cat plays with a mouse.

Thank you sir for that correction.


Wasn't trying to be flippant, but most of the upper register and even some of the extreme upper register requires at least the use of ONE valve in order for it to be fully chromatic unless you're getting way up there past double C.

Playing piccolo actually helps to feel where the tones should be and it ends up transferring back to the big horn. But the picc itself does not instantly increase your range by an octave. It is a very busy, metaphorical two way street.
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