Mouthpieces

This article was written and posted in the original HTML Horn Notes Blog at the end of one of my summers teaching at the...

Last summer I sent my old Yahama 667 to James Patterson in New Mexico for a conversion. I am happy to report that I...

Last September I posted pictures of my home office space in "Anatomy of a Practice Space." Here is a look inside my mouthpiece pouch,...

How you perceive the playing qualities of a horn you are testing will be impacted quite a bit by what horn you have been...

It has been four weeks since my Patterson-converted Yamaha 667 arrived in a little brown truck at my doorstep. I had sent it away...

A question came in about mouthpieces, as in should you use a big mouthpiece on a big horn and a small mouthpiece on a...

There are some things in horn playing that truly are mysterious. One is the interaction between lip and mouthpiece and horn. As I mentioned in...

Several mouthpiece makers catering to the North American market produce mouthpieces with a European shank. It is a topic a lot of horn players...

One question that came in today is one asked fairly often, about the numbers on horn mouthpieces. As in, what is 12, 8, etc. Basically...

The topic of Episode 94 of The Mellocast is the Mouthpiece Wheel of Doom. It is a term jazz hornist Mark Taylor uses relating...