| I started on a 5B for cornet. Later I moved to a 7C, (when I inherited my sister's Yamaha YTR 739T trumpet) which worked very well for me until I got a wild hair to buy a new mouthpiece because it had a neat display in the store and they looked very cool. The mouthpiece?
Marcinkiewicz.
I'm not sure now why I made the change, other than at the time it was just assumed that as you advanced as a player, then a mouthpiece change was in order. I was a sophomore in HS at the time and I consider it to be one of my more foolish decisions regarding things that have altered my playing. I didn't need to make a mouthpiece change and the adaptive process took well over a month.
My advice stays the same - 3C, 5C or 7C and go from there.
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