Posts made by Vulgano Brother

@barliman2001 said in [AR Resonance Mouthpieces]
"And if you want to play around on a mouthpiece safari first, go for the Arnolds & Sons range, sometimes marketed as Stoelzel. They are reliable copies of Bach favourites at incredibly low prices..."

Better made than some Bachs in the '90s. Using these mouthpieces allow us to try all kinds of modifications cheaply. Throat sizes (drill bit and a vice) can be easily enlarged, as well as the backbore (fingernail files for reamers).

A fun project is to match the popping frequency of the backbore to the cup, filing off the end of the shank until they match--then machine a Morse taper to the appropriate end diameter.

Adds zing to the response.

Better than any Super Bowl rendition in recent years.

Try a bunch of horns (including those not on your list) and let the right one find you.

@dr-go

I dig your lack of posture.

Start with Kansas City, then Oakland....

@dr-go Yes, let's have paintings for all the Superbowl losers over the years.

I tried the Monette leadpipe again. It is about one receiver longer than the Bach, and it fixes the g nicely. Time to cultivate a local American tech to put it on. It will change brace placement for sure. (I had the braces removed Spada does [without the fine tuning] previously.)

As for slide shape, I don't like the edge that comes with the Bach D core. It just sits there and buzzes and there isn't too much ability to color it. Haven't experienced ovate slides on my D yet, but I find my round one gives me a warm, highly compact C sound that I like, kind of like a mythical Gil Johnson D sound. Thinking of moving the bell brace up a bit for more feedback.

Isn't playing with horns fun?

(That's another way of saying "Why didn't it work right out of the factory?")

Playing horns is even more fun, so please excuse me while I practice.

My D trumpet. Elkhart Bach, 236 bell. Tuning slide by Matthias Beck. over-under first valve slide with ring., shortened third slide, and brace removal by Norbert Böpple, and a couple of gadgets from Ivan Hunter--his adjustable tuning slide brace lets me switch from brighter to darker, and he's got some sort of dampeners for between the valves that seems to improve slotting.

It has a glorious sound and a fine blow, but the G in the staff is so flat that it has to be played 1-3. I don't like that. I have an old Monette leadpipe that I haven't soldered on yet, and the G is still flat. No matter the mouthpiece, the G is flat.

Anyone else have this problem with their D180?
Anyone know how to fix it?

Youtube Video

Gil had one of the prettiest C trumpet sounds.

@dr-go Need dirty contacts to pull Green Eyed Lady off. You can pull it off because you can count me as a dirty contact.

That's it. I'm giving up trombone.

If you like yodeling....

I asked my shrink if I was an Idiot-Savant and he told me I wasn't smart enough.

@trumpetsplus I've noticed that the mouthpieces that work best on a given trumpet, the ones that make the trumpet "sing," make for an easy in-tune Pedal C.

Now that good weather is coming, time to get in shape!

I bought a Megatone looking 3C from a Chinese company, and it is better made than some Bachs in the '90s. Not a true 3C copy, the bite is softer and the cup deeper, and the whole effect is that of a kind of large but not too large trumpet mouthpiece (which the 3 is).

Not bad for $10.

@dr-go You have beautiful daughters! They don't look like you at all!

New trumpet valve invented.

@Kehaulani said in Saturn:

Ah yes, Venus.

Benade wrote about the importance of matching backbores to cups around some 50 years ago.