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Similar story here. Same family history and about the same age. Retirement means much more time to practice (finally) and play. Picking up new skills and instruments in Bb, Eb and F has got to help.

Once you get a chance to really explore the combination of mouthpiece and horn, please consider posting a video. I'd love to hear the sound.

Your measurements tell me that the mouthpiece is about the same dimensions as my old unmarked mouthpiece that I'm currently using. It is small but not so small that it can't be used. I have a Conn 18 that looks great but is so small I just can't be consistent with it.

You forget that if Bix heard it, he could play it. It is realistic to think he internalized everything he heard. He was, therefore, educated in music in a way that was quite serviceable. Most players of that time did not read music. They also "knew" music in an intimate way and were also educated because of that.

All those ideas work. But really what is the problem? Is it your fingers being stiff? Is it your brain being old and stiff? Is it your equipment not allowing the note to speak with minimal effort. Or is it something else? This will scare you. I was working on very technical and fast pieces this afternoon against a metronome. Worked through my mouthpiece collection until I found the one that allowed centered notes and fast articulations. I could then play the pieces at the correct speed. How about that? Equipment was the answer.

Fixing Bach mouthpieces is what Curry did and does. The ability to have consistency across the board with sizes and configurations allows us to have dependable results in our playing.

@J-Jericho said in Superhorn Showdown!:

Schagerl,

Great demo of two fine horns. First time I've heard the Schagerl, and I have to say, if I was in the market, that would be the first one to try. I love the tone and the full sound.

Wow! Just wow! Thank you for posting that. I'm passing it around to my trumpet playing friends.

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

Once again, someone posted that their horn has the best valves of all of their instruments. I have many different instruments. Very old to virtually new. I have many different brands represented in the collection. None of my instruments has bad valves. The best valves?

What does that mean? If you've said this, what are you talking about? What makes for great valves?

Why wouldn't you put the horn back in the case when you are done playing?

How about this? The cornet mouthpiece has a smaller hole at the end than a trumpet mouthpiece. Smaller hole means less air. Smaller hole means though conical after that they can be the same, the smaller hole always starts smaller and therefor the totality of the conical nature will always be greater.