W Scott

I sat in with the local community band this last Thursday for the first time since moving to the area. The fellow that has a lot of the solo parts is an interesting guy. He's in his 60's, very hard of hearing, plays a Bach Strad with a mouthpiece bent up at about a 10 or 15% angle.

I asked him what happened to the mouthpiece and he claims a long ago trumpet teacher got him to doing this. He claims it gives him better projection and sound. I don't hear anything special---although he does play quite well for being almost deaf.

Anybody else heard or seen a mouthpiece bent like this? 8)


Bill