TrumpetMaster - View Single Post - I was not in doubt, yet I still drilled it out

musicalmason · 12-14-2003, 08:45 PM

I had an old bach 3c lying around, just an extra, so I decided to go wild, I cut off about a half inch of the shank, trying to replicate the stork studiomaster, and then I took my drill to it, starting at the bottem of the shak I used two progressivly bigger bits to really drill it out, and then I took a very small bit to the inside of the cup and drilled that out, due to my lack of tools I created a sort of progressive backbore mouthpiece, which is guess what, now my marching mouthpiece! it has a bigger sound than any mouthpiece I have ever tried. only one downside..slotting...it takes alot more lip to hold a pitch up high on this piece, but marching, I dont have to hold that many notes. I say the benifit out weighs the neative, I guess I just got lucky.

12-14-2003, 08:45 PM	#1 (permalink)
musicalmason Pianissimo User Join Date: Dec 2003 Posts: 192	I was not in doubt, yet I still drilled it out I had an old bach 3c lying around, just an extra, so I decided to go wild, I cut off about a half inch of the shank, trying to replicate the stork studiomaster, and then I took my drill to it, starting at the bottem of the shak I used two progressivly bigger bits to really drill it out, and then I took a very small bit to the inside of the cup and drilled that out, due to my lack of tools I created a sort of progressive backbore mouthpiece, which is guess what, now my marching mouthpiece! it has a bigger sound than any mouthpiece I have ever tried. only one downside..slotting...it takes alot more lip to hold a pitch up high on this piece, but marching, I dont have to hold that many notes. I say the benifit out weighs the neative, I guess I just got lucky.