| I would recomend that you go to a good music store and tell them you want to try out a few Bach 1c and 1 1/2c mouthpieces. Bring your horn cause you need to feel how they will respond and sound on your instrument. Below is part of a post that I posted elsewhere on this site and perhaps it may help you understand what size can do for you.
I normally play a Bach 1c and get about 2 1/2 hours of endurance. When I play a shallow Holton Heim #2 (10c) small cup mouthpiece I get a whopping 5 hours of endurance. Additionally this mouthpiece adds about 4 or 5 notes to my range, and physically is 10 times easier to play. I can go forever on my Heim.
The larger the cup, more of your lip is exposed and thus your lip tires much faster.
Think of it in these terms. If a body builder does only a few reps with heavy weights he will tire his muscles out much faster than if he uses lighter weights with a lot of reps. In this analogy the heavy weights are the large cup mouthpiece and the light weights is the small cup mouthpiece. Muscles are muscles and the same principles apply to embouchure or biceps.
What you also want to take into account is the type of sound that you want to produce. The Bach 1c gives me a very dark centered tone while the Heim 10c gives me a very bright sparkling sound.
You have to decide which mouthpiece is for you, but I would recomend a Bach 1c. Be prepared however (on the positive side) to have a deeper richer sound, and (on the negative side) to lose a little range and endurance when going to a bigger mouthpiece. This problem however is something that time on the 1c will correct. Its just part of your development as a trumpet player.
You can take a great mouthpiece and put it onto a garbage can of a horn, and it will make the horn sound great. Mouthpieces are VERY important.
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Equipment
Martin Committee Trumpet, T3467RE
Holton Heim # 2 Mouthpiece
Bach 1c Mouthpiece
Rick AKA Trumpet Man |