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Originally Posted by jazz9  I didn't know 7C's were considered bad mp's. I guess I'll have to find something else to play on. |
I didn't say that Bach 7C's are inherently bad mouthpieces.
I said that "many of us" consider them to be bad mouthpieces for us because they do not work well for us with the wrong cup depth and wrong bite.
Other people do quite well with them.
There was a long thread in Trumpet Herald a while back in which several people talked about how much they don't like the Bach 7C and how it is strange to pick that particular mouthpiece for *all* beginners.
So the Bach 7C is not the universally good mouthpiece for all beginners that tradition used to dictate.
Nor is it an inherently bad mouthpiece.
Beginners should be given some choice of mouthpieces rather than all told "Use this for the first 5 years and then we'll let you decide if you want to try a different one."
It makes no sense to tell a student that the Bach 7C has a "medium" cup depth when in reality it is the deepest "C" cup in the Bach line.
And, as I pointed out, our local music store no longer keeps new Bach 7C's in stock because most students are now using Bach 3C's instead.
If the original poster's local store is the same way, it would make no sense for me to recommend a Bach 7C that he would have to special order when several nice Bach 3C's are available on the shelf.
By the way, I routinely use a Bach 7 and a Bach 7E, both of which work much better for me than a Bach 7C ever did.
I'm still not crazy about the rim and bite, but I've learned to live with it.
- Morris