Steve A

Hello Ed, I hope you're doing well! I have two questions that I've been poking around, looking for answer for, and it occurred to me yesterday that you'd certainly have an excellent answer for the first, and almost certainly a similarly excellent answer for the second.

First of all - can you recommend a good recording of some of the Strauss brass fanfares, like Festmusik der Stadt Wien, and Feierlicher Einzug?

Secondly - I've read periodically about the practice of using a mouthpiece with a shortened shank on C trumpet to improve some intonation and response problems - do you have an opinion on this?

Thanks!

Steve