Custom Trumpet Mouthpiece: Personalized Craftsmanship by Ken Titmus Finding the right custom trumpet mouthpiece can make a meaningful difference in how a trumpet feels and responds. Every player has different physical characteristics, musical demands, and preferences, so a standard mouthpiece is not always the perfect solution. Custom mouthpiece work allows specific parts of a mouthpiece […]
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What Does the Backbore Do? The backbore plays an important role in regulating resistance and shaping the way your trumpet responds and sounds. Selecting the right backbore is ultimately about finding a balance between the instrument’s resistance and the way you naturally produce sound. Fine-tuning resistance through the backbore is closely connected to your physiology
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Trumpet players & Brass Players: Missing Notes for No Apparent Reason? One of the most common occurrences of this is near the beginning of “In the Mood” – the dreaded third note for the trumpets. This note is so commonly missed that whenever the entire trumpet section plays it without a frack, they are gleefully
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How to use a practice mute to increase high range If your high register has hit a “wall” after trying different practice approaches and equipment changes, a practice mute just may come to the rescue. That wall is that point at the peak of your range where the buzz stops — either the air can
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Is your tuning slide w-a-a-a-ay out? Try this before Investing in A New Mouthpiece If your tuning slide is way out, approaching 2 inches (for trumpet), you are playing in defiance of your instrument. “Busting the bronco” may be a possible cure. The following procedure has worked well for me and for a dozen or
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Trumpet Endurance Problems? Is your top lip taking a beating? I get calls from trumpet players looking for a new mouthpiece to solve their endurance problems. Some are using what would normally be considered an efficient set-up. They tell me that they start off with everything great, but their endurance hits the skids after the
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I often hear from players having a chop problem or feeling like they are in a playing slump where things aren’t working as they used to. Many things can cause this such as changes in weight, teeth changes, changes in playing routine, road gigs, aging… When players feel like their chops are not working as
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Mouthpiece repair and alteration is a vast subject and has many more services than you may be aware of. I will name and define services that I have performed. Some mouthpiece repair and alteration work are a simple fix and some are a more intricate process. Types of Mouthpiece Repair and Alterations Change Bore Size
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