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New rock coming soon!! We are currently working on a new record and will be cutting tracks in the next few months! So check back for updates. If you’re lucky we may even put a snippet of one of the tracks for your listening pleasure.
We are booking for 2007. If you would like to have Mouthpiece perform in your town send us an email or call our booking department at 615-750-3063.
Mouthpiece H is an old French Besson (there is also an English Besson); I is the famous Arban’s cornet mouthpiece; J is a modern mouthpiece of the former first trumpet of the Chicago Symphony, Mr. Llewellyn; K is the cornet mouthpiece of the renowned Jules Levy. It is interesting to compare these. Note especially the varying shapes of the backbores of G and H and the varying cups of I and K as
In order to clarify the situation, let us first identify the parts of a mouthpiece so that we may have a ready vocabulary. Figure A [to the left] shows a trumpet mouthpiece that has been cut in half. No. 1 is the rim, the convex [i.e., curving outward, the outside of a bell] portion of the upper part of the mouthpiece. No. 2 is the cup, the concave [i.e., curving inward, the inside of a bell] portion as viewed from above, which is located just below the rim. No. 3 is the shoulder of the throat, a convex surface as viewed from above, blending the cup into the throat.
Nose Breathe for Heavy Mouth Breather -
Patented
#6,053,168
alto sax mouthpiece
fang mouthpiece
Tongue Positioner/ Pacifier -
Patented
#6,412,489 - all of the sound and nuance of timbre, volume and pitch comes from the string alone. The body of the violin simply acts like a passive filter/resonator. A fine instrument will dampen and filter out most of the unwanted elements of the sound while adding resonance to the desirable qualities of the vibrating string. The point is made to enable a sober, no-nonsense grasp of just how a saxophone/clarinet tone is produced:s pressed onto the wood. It is achieved by shaping the wax between thumb and forefinger as it is applied.
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stages in repairing a didgeridoo mouthpiece