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Originally Posted by beppe  Hi Manny!! Can you give me some advice to understand this:
"Normally, playing on the "low" side of things is the way to go with Dave's equipment."
Thanks!! |
here are some excellent pictures and descriptions:
http://www.monette.net/newsite/monette_concept_01.htm
Many if not most trumpet players do not play on the resonant center of each tone on their instrument. This is due to the fact that the instrument/mouthpiece combination is not perfectly in tune. To compensate for this, alternate fingerings, pivot system and many other "work-arounds" are used to get a musical product to the audience.
Dave Monette has changed some of the parameters of mouthpiece design to correct these deficiencies. They require you not to "lip-up" notes, rather to play more relaxed. In the beginning, this is like "lipping-down"(you have trained the additional tension into your normal playing). After a while, relaxed becomes natural and better.
There have been other examples in the past of companies making a dedicated effort to correct these problems. Schilke used to highlight in their brochures the superior intonation of Schilke mouthpieces with Schilke instruments. Bach for instance, has pretty much ignored the problem entirely. New Bach C trumpets with Bach mouthpieces still have the same intonation problems that their predecessors 20 years ago had.