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Fundamentals 5. Embouchure: mouthpiece placement, muscular focus, relationship to air, various ranges

Before turning to all these topics, I would like to remind readers that this series is based on a list of fundamentals found in...

Geyer Dreaming V: The Mouthpiece Man

Continuing to the topic of Geyer and mouthpieces, there is an article by Milan Yancich, "Carl Geyer -- The Mouthpiece Man," that was published...

The Tragic Tale of Mouthpiece Man

What follows is a parody, an absolute farce. But take heed dear reader; as bizarre as this tale may seem, it contains a kernel...

A story involving Giardinelli mouthpiece fit, and Verne Reynolds

While well known for his horn music and teaching, Verne Reynolds was not known as an equipment guru. On the other hand, any good...

Mouthpiece story — Testing “connections” with Maxime-Alphonse 4:12

Some certain works and phrases of works have interesting applications when it comes to testing mouthpieces and horns. In some recent lessons I have...

Review: The Versus M1T mellophone mouthpiece. The one everyone has been waiting for

A new product on the market, and a game changer, is the Versus M1T mellophone mouthpiece. Mellophone is, sadly, a hugely polarizing topic of the...

Bad Conventional Wisdom, part 5: The mouthpiece

If there is one single piece of advice that has held back more players, it might be this quote from the Farkas book: “If...

Bad Conventional Wisdom, part 3: The dreaded topic of too much mouthpiece pressure

Another topic I want to address in this series is mouthpiece pressure. We have all seen the page in the Farkas book where he...

PSA: How many mouthpieces should you own?

In my recent article of bad horn advice I suggested that a serious student of the horn needs to own at least 5 mouthpieces. To...

New instrument! Change mouthpiece? Break it in?

Some horn players are very averse to change, but changes have to be made! One exciting type of change is getting a new horn...