[Trombone-l] "plastic" mylar mouthjpiecea

[Denny Seifried]

Charles---are you talking about something like a pure-plastic MP, like a 
Kelly or a Lexan Rim, like Doug Elliott or Terry Warburton can furnish.

I used a Kelly 1.5G for a lot of my 22 outdoor gigs, here in SW OH, between 
Thanksgiving and Christmas. I am normally using a larger bass-bone MP, for 
my regular playing, like a Carl Hammond 21BL (59/60 size).

Most of the playing we did was in 25 degree to 35 degree outdoor-weather. 
Not fun!

I found the Kelly to be a little brighter than my Hammond set-up, but, who 
cares when you are outdoors and put your lips on a ice cube of a mouthpiece 
or a nice less-cold piece of plastic. Also, I like slippery mouthpieces, 
like gold or silver;  and,  that Kelly does not allow much movement inside 
the MP.

For those of you bass bone players who like a Kelly, larger than a 1.5, I am 
told we need to contact Kelly and he might have some larger Kelly's or maybe 
make one, on an individual basis. This is just hear-say, as I have not made 
any contact, yet, with Kelly.

One of our trombonists in our quartet used a  Warburton Lexan-Cup on his 
two-piece set-up from Terry. I have another friend who uses a Lexan rim on 
his Elliott, as he can not use either brass or gold, for medical reason.

Hope this helps.

Denny Seifried


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Levine" <chardy2 at gmail.com>
To: <trombone-l at server5.samford.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 4:00 PM
Subject: [Trombone-l] "plastic" mylar mouthjpiecea


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