| Point taken. :)
Maybe the "screw your teacher" part of it was a little harsh, but teachers can and do make mistakes too. They aren't infallible just because they are teaching.
I once was working with my HS band director when I was a Senior in HS on my solo for music contests, which just happend to be the first movement of the Haydn trumpet cocerto. I was going in after school a couple times a week to work on some of the musical concepts, and it seemed that the stuff he was telling me to do just didn't jibe with what I was hearing on the recordings that I had, or how it felt to me musically. So I got a second opinion from another guy, the K - 6 grade music teacher, an accomplished classical pianist and organist, and the guy who would be my accompianist for contests.
As it turned out, my band director was NOT telling me correct information, and I ended up dumping my lessons with him, and doing everything with my former music teacher, who to this day is my mentor and dear friend.
This was a case where the teacher was NOT right. Not even close, and this is a guy with a college degree in music education.
The thing is, kdawg knows that the mouthpiece feels right, but he has ears of his own to determine what his sound is like. What exactly does "not enough core" mean? We would have to actually hear him on his different mouthpieces to make that kind of determination. I'm also under the impression that he is using this mouthpiece for lead work, which means that he is probably going to be going for a brighter, more edgy sound anyway.
We are all taking this topic WAAAAAAY too seriously. :P
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