I started playing on my LA Recording today with my TF (trumpet/flugel V cup) mouthpiece today. What a sound!

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It's just semantics. There is no real difference.

I have owned and played several plastic instruments.

Plastic recorders

Plastic Cornettos (zinks)

As well as plastic mouthpieces

The plastic instruments play slightly differently to brass instruments as do the plastic mouthpieces.

But then a good player can deliver great music from almost any instrument.

It does not surprise me in the slightest that Charlie Parker sounded great on that plastic instrument. The man was a phenomenon so naturally he sounded phenomenal.

What ever method decided, I cannot expand any higher on my transposition training I received from Mick Dennisen when he was teaching me at the University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. At the time he had me run through many, many months of mental torture (like learning a new language with EVERY key change), it has paid in spades many many years later. Whether playing off the piano score in small group ensembles or going though various versions of Organ Music in so many keys for non-Bb instruments, it has been a real career enhancer to go into to any new performance rehearsal and playing off a score with my Bb trumpet in hand, and play any original keyed arrangement with minimal effort.

XStream mouthpiece. Same answer as on TH. Have fun!

That's great, I love it!

@SSmith1226 these guys are hilarious.

I commend you all for going out and participating in these events. Wether a paid gig or community participation. As long as you enjoyed the experience is all that matters in the end. I've been so busy with work I've put any playing aside. I'm saddened to my core for that and I am proactively looking to change that this year. Hope you all had a great Christmas.

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@SSmith1226 Thanks for mentioning John Harner; I had forgotten his association with Kenton '76.

... or the man whom William Vacchiano called "his best student", Alan Rubin.

I purchased and Eb/F Alto Horn (Tenor Horn) a few years back. I use my flugelhorn mouthpiece, which works well enough for my needs.

Mike