I had a 1967 Recording for years but did not care that much for it. My main horn is a Super Recording. A year or so ago I inherited a 1951 LA Recording. WOW! Not the same horn as the 1967. It is much more like my Super Recording, but with a richer sound. The 1967 Recording was sold.

I struggled for decades with my embouchure. I was a pretty good player. Good enough to get a full scholarship to college. I was able to make the 6 o'clock Lab Band at UNT and subbed in the 4. I've studied with some well known teachers. But I was never able to really have excellent control of the horn. At some point I caught onto the Rusty Russel 19/30s exercise. It helped me learn to play without so much muscle tension in my embouchure. That enabled me to increase my endurance. Then I found The Basic Embouchure. It is not so much a method of making a correct embouchure. It is more of a series of exercises that allow you to find the embouchure that works for you. Once I found my way, I was able to play without trying to make my embouchure work. That freed my mind to audiate while I played. This was a big step for me.

So I guess I would choose neither of the two choices.

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

I had a 1967 Recording for years but did not care that much for it. My main horn is a Super Recording. A year or so ago I inherited a 1951 LA Recording. WOW! Not the same horn as the 1967. It is much more like my Super Recording, but with a richer sound. The 1967 Recording was sold.

At NTSU (that would be UNT for you youngsters) they had some trumpets in the school's equipment that had a tuning trigger on the tuning slide. There was a name for this mechanism, but I don't remember it. I don't remember exactly how it was set up, but I am pretty sure it wasn't with a push rod. But I think it is a good idea for someone with an extremely good sense of pitch. It would enable you to adjust pitch on any note no matter what valves were pushed down.

I hope you kicked him really hard in his tender bits.