[Trombone-l] Get a real alto trombone mouthpiece

[Adrian Drover]

> From: Tom Izzo
> 
> Yes & some have 1st valve rings and/or both slides.
> But these only help correct lower pitches  requiring
> 2/3, 1/3, & 1/2/3 valve combinations. Higher notes
> should be lipped in tune. 


Hmmm, Tom.  It is true that combinations of valves, particularly those which
include the 3rd valve are sharp, but there is no reason why the 1st valve
slide cannot be used to correct the tuning on that valve alone, particularly
for the flat 5th harmonic and maybe the sharp 6th harmonic.  In the
interests of tone production, I would say that having the correct length of
tubing is preferable to lipping a note in tune.

A.