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@Kehaulani said in Mouthpiece too large?:

There's no need to take this personally.

I don't take anything you posted personally. I have enough self esteem to keep my thoughts on track without feeling I was lobed a personal vendetta. The person taking it personal is the person writing the above quote. I simply stated you were ignorant on the concept of the Harrelson Horn. That is not a personal attack. Calling you stupid (which you are not) would be a personal attack.

Kehaulani you never answered my question... Have you ever played a Harrelson? If the answer is no, than you are ignorant, or maybe you will hear me if I soften it to - you have a knowledge gap, as to what Harrelson's SWE technology brings to the design of his casting methods over traditionally bending trumpet tubing.

So I am assigning you a task: Please read up on SWE technology, report back to us on what you find and then and only then can you state your doubts without ignorance (knowledge gap) as your defense.

Now stop debating things you have no knowledge to debate and post something relevant to the thread on mouthpiece size being too large, as you are taking this thread way off track. Please?

@djeffers78 said in Mouthpiece too large?:

I think a big mouthpiece is just part of the equation for the desired outcome.
The biggest MP I use is a Wick 4. I can play it just as well as any other MP but it’s the only one that will produce the desired effect on my cornet

This is the most important truth. I do believe this truth relates to experience level however. In my early days, learning on a 10 1/2C Bach mouthpiece as a beginner (not my choice but my teachers' choices throughout grade school and high school) "forced" an intolerance of larger cups, and to me at that time in my life a 5C was huge! Today, as a professional, I have learned I can play and learned even more I love to play in a 3C. That 3C allows me flexibility and freedom to embellish air puffs from the embouchure that helps texture the sound wave I can but into the horn. It takes more work for me to control, but the end result is worth it.

@Kehaulani said in Mouthpiece too large?:

@Vulgano-Brother said in Mouthpiece too large?:
People will pay you that much not to play? Guess I should have become a jazz musician!

He's a doctor who plays jazz.

Cut the guilt shit Kehaulani. I am a jazz musician that was a University Professor prior to retiring this year. I then took a position for the first time in my career exclusively as a physician this past year. While working as a part time physician at the University, I made more income as a jazz musician for most of the years I filed IRS statements than I did as a physician. Your ignorance is once again being broadcast on this site. Please stop.

@Kehaulani said in Mouthpiece too large?:

There was a Filipino family that lived a few houses down from me that re-painted their house. Purple. Looked beautiful to them.

No application here. Please Kehaulani, your ignorance is being communicated to this site.

@Kehaulani said in Mouthpiece too large?:

@GeorgeB said in Mouthpiece too large?:
That is one gorgeous horn, Doc.

I think it's gaudy bling. Goes to show you how differing tastes can be.

There was a Filipino family that lived a few houses down from me that re-painted their house. Purple. Looked beautiful to them.

I think you do not understand Harrelsons. Have you ever played one? The bell and tuning slide may appear gaudy to the uninformed but they are cast components, unlike the traditional bend at both crooks. The bend dissipates energy, the cast transmits energy. Play one before you criticize. You will discover this is not bling.

@grune said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO On first read, I, too, wondered what the 'sky' meant. A dialect perhaps? But then, being raised with snow, I realised sky meant 'ski'. I forget what term the psych majors use to describe the phenomenon when people see something out of context but place it in proper context, or vice versa.

For me it's called a typo and bad eye sight. To BigDub it's a career opportunity as personal editor.

@Newell-Post said in Mouthpiece too large?:

@administrator The Monette costs about $10K. The artsy-fartsy decoration accounts for the rest.

Then such a deal I got. The artsy-fartsy note with serpent in the tuning slide on my Harrelson only cost me $300! But what was really cool is Jason used my design.... Come to think of it, he has used that insert for horns after making mine. Perhaps I should be getting design royalties?

My Harrelson Brass Pipe is now selling for around $14,000:

@administrator said in Mouthpiece too large?:

Can't Monettes cost $30k+? I mean, that's not $100k, granted, but it is, at the end of the day, a brass pipe.

But a very purdy brass pipe!

@ROWUK said in Mouthpiece 'Comparator' ?:

I have made some interesting discoveries during my career.

4. shallow cups greatly increase the need to critically match horn and mouthpiece - especially in regard to intonation

Would like to amend 4): While I do not disagree, and have experienced this myself, after purchasing a 5 mm Harrelson Modular kit that has reproduced my Jettone studio B with the Harrelson modular rim and cup, by replacing the throat component on the back end, an improved match can be found. So if you can change the back end of the mouthpiece you can improve this factor.

@BigDub said in A little humour:

What did you mean by "sky"?

Ahhhhhhhh my personal editor is back!

Ah... Just in case, for our members from Texas, I have included details that should clarify this for ya al:

grune, sadly this is true. When I was a graduate student at Colorado State, I would ski often at Copper Mountain where there would be large groups of "tourists" coming up to sky our Rockies. I rode a lift with a College student from Texas hitting the slopes for the first time, and I was reassuring him how great the snow was in Colorado. He said, Oh, sure, not surprising since Colorado was right on the border to Canada.

I personally gave Arturo two Cuban cigars, to get my own personal interview with him. It was not at his house.

@BigDub said in A little humour:

Uh.......last I checked, Canada looks to be North and continues in that persuasion.
I actually have some friends in Canada. All work for Universities. Sasquatch is not involved in any of this.

Uh..........last I checked, the butt looks to be South of the head, Unless one stands on their said, head. We learned that in Medical School in the first quarter, so as to insert the tongue depressor into the correct orifice.

@BigDub said in A little humour:

@Dr-GO

You mean, North Dakota?

I do... butt you gotta admit, this is a more southern exposure

Mike Wade, Cincinnati trumpet player has a cool idea for masking during a trumpet performance:

@grune said in Mouthpiece too large?:

@flugelgirl

with so many excellent horns and brands these days, are we living in a golden age?

Not so sure as the Martin Committees, Olds Super Recordings of 1930's vintage were of golden age quality. Was the 30's and 40's that start of the golden age?

Ever wonder what the Canadian side of Mt. Rushmore looks like?:

@Kehaulani said in Mouthpiece recommendations for young beginners:

What is the relevance to the OP? This thread is seven months old.

Perhaps saving up the cash for that Harrelson 5mm!