Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 10:59 am Post subject: Only one!
Hi there
If you play all kinds of music in different genres in any situation - and you had to play everything on just ONE(!) mouthpiece, which one would you choose and why?
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Posted: Tue Apr 25, 2023 12:59 pm Post subject:
I would normally play two different mouthpieces depending on performing group and style.
It's easier for me to blend into the legit-oriented groups with a commercial mouthpiece than to take a legit, darker and rounder mouthpiece to cut through a big band or pop combo with.
So if I must - Purviance 5*K4. _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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I have tried many mouthpieces.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:31 am Post subject: Re: Only one!
Schilkeshaker wrote:
If you play all kinds of music in different genres in any situation - and you had to play everything on just ONE(!) mouthpiece, which one would you choose
Because that'd essentially give me a whole bunch of mouthpieces even though it's technically just a single solution. Basically a Kirk's Kobyashi Maru solution. Thus adhering to your other rule :
Schilkeshaker wrote:
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2023 1:41 am Post subject:
The old reliable for me has always been the Wedge 65MD, and in the past 3 months it has been the larger Wedge 66MD. But I have a soft spot for the ACB TA1, however it is now too small for my old chops. But I love ACB and the Wedge mps because of their comfort.
I am hoping to make an ACB MV3CS my all around mp when I receive it, but until it arrives I will stick to the Wedge, I just hate having to line up that bloody dot every time I have to put it in the receiver.
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Posted: Wed Apr 26, 2023 4:00 am Post subject:
My choice would be a GR 67MS.
While I normally play everything on a Marcinkiewicz E.13 C. Findley, if I was ever forced to do way more legit playing, the 67 MS would be the go to piece. I normally play on shallow equipment so despite this cup not being very deep, it is significant difference for me and improves tone.
I think it performs as advertised in terms of its use as an all around mouthpiece. _________________ BRM
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I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that few (if any) took the time to listen to that.
I think that it's long been established (has it? Seems to me that it has) that the most commonly used middle-of-the-road mouthpiece is probably some variant of the 3C. I'm currently using an ACB 3C on this blank....although these look short enough to be cornet mouthpieces.
I've used a Curry 3C a good bit too - it's probably the best playing of the various versions of a 3C that I have, but to me the sound quality is not quite as good as the ACB 3C. It's an articulation thing - I have to work just a bit more to get the same control and crispness with the ACB 3C, but I do it because in this particular horn - a Jupiter 1600i - it's a better sound. _________________ Patrick Gleason
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Posted: Fri Apr 28, 2023 10:12 pm Post subject:
My Mt. Vernon 1 1/2C is my do everything mouthpiece. I love the rim, the flexibility and the wonderfully colorful sound I get on it.
I purchased this mouthpiece new, and can speak from experience that Mt. Vernon mouthpieces that have been buffed, re-plated or otherwise modified do not play as originally intended. They can be excellent mouthpieces, but to me they no longer have the sound or feel of the originals.
Same goes for the various Mt. Vernon copies I have tried.
I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that few (if any) took the time to listen to that.
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Posted: Sat Apr 29, 2023 8:40 am Post subject:
The only piece I have that I could attempt to play everything - all genres, classical including picc to big band jazz solos - would be a GR 66 MS. _________________ Matt Finley https://mattfinley.bandcamp.com/releases
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