[Trombone-l] Mouthpiece advice

[Ray Horton]

absolutely


RBH


Wayne Dyess wrote:
>
> On Dec 2, 2007, at 5:26 PM, Ray Horton wrote:
>
>> Among the two or three dozen high school students I've had over the 
>> last decade or so, I had three that the 6 1/2 AL was too large for.  
>> All three were small of build, two were female, and all three seemed 
>> to have serious jaw or tension-related problems that I could never 
>> fully solve (one, who was principally a violinist playing trombone 
>> for fun, later had surgery in college). 
>>
>>
>> I just mention this to point out that:  yes, the 6 1/2 is a great 
>> all-around mouthpiece, but, there are kids out there for whom it 
>> might not work.   I had another, (again, a very small guy, but no 
>> real problems except that the 6 1/2 was too big,) for whom I delayed 
>> moving from a 7C to a 61/2 until 11th grade (used an adapter on his 
>> 42B for a year or so) and had good results with that. 
>>
>>
>> I have some young kids (6th, 7th graders) come to me with a 12C and I 
>> do try to get them off of that as soon as I can, but I often use the 
>> 7C in between.  Any disagreement with that?
>>
>>
>>
>> RBH
>>
>
>
> None whatsoever, Ray.  There is no magic formula for every student. 
>  That is why most of us would agree that it is a good idea for 
> students to take privately.  When I got to college, George West took 
> me off the Remington and tried to get me onto a Bach 7 (not the C, I 
> don't think)... but I gravitated back to the Remington because the 7 
> wasn't working for me.  I didn't like my tone, and my endurance 
> suffered.  The rim of the 5G is very similar, at least it is to me, to 
> the Remington.  It has a somewhat larger cup, and that helped me with 
> my low range more so than tone -- though that was a nice by-product 
> FOR ME.
>
> Yep -- I'm right there with ya.  I, too, have had smaller students for 
> which the 6-1/2 AL was not a good fit.  I still advocate that it is a 
> good starting point when a student is making that first instrument 
> purchase.  Then, with the help of a private lessons teacher or their 
> band director, the student should make any necessary change as soon as 
> possible to something that works for them if their first try isn't 
> yielding results.
>
> Same page?
>
> --Wayne
>
>
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