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I was wondering if anyone has every used a Bach mouthpiece with a Schilke Trpt. for any of their setups.

I don't know if Schilke trumpets were designed to play with a Schilke mouthpiece in order to provide optimum sound or not. A Schilke S-32 seems like an awesome horn, but I'm afraid that if I use my Bach 1.5 C Mouthpiece, then there will be too much of a gap between the mouthpiece and the leadpipe which might change the sound or something along those lines.

Currently, my Bach 1.5 Mouthpiece isn't too much of a problem since I use it for all my playing from symphony to Jazz Band. Only thing is that my band director think I'm still playing a little too bright at times. I'm also tending to be a little sharp (something that still happened when I used a 7C), but is that more of an embouchure problem?

Also, does gold plating and silver plating on a mouthpiece make too much of a difference besides appearance?

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Bach 1.5 C Mouthpiece

bagmangood

For piccolo playing i play a bach 7dw on a P5-4, and it plays fine. According to my teacher, when they initially designed it they designed it for the 7d size bach piece and another schilke piece (i can't remember which).
Long and short of that - it doesn't matter for most brands. Some horns (*cough monette cough*) need their piece in order to play properly but Schilke isn't one of them

Gold plating vs. silver doesn't make a difference in sound, how it feels to you yes, but not sound.

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Kent

I'm playing a Schilke B5 with a Bach 3C and haven't found it to be a problem and find that the set up gives good tone, etc as well as a good fit with the horn.

Vulgano Brother

My experience has been that the mouthpiece brand used with my B7 and E3L is that it doesn't matter.

Your band director may be confusing your sharpness with brightness. I have to pull out the tuning slides more with my Schilkes than with Bachs, but as long as the tuning slide doesn't fall out it is not an issue. I had the chance to play on Werner Heckmann's E3L (German Brass) while in Germany (I taught at the school where his son studied trombone) and he had a tube put inside the inner slide on the tuning bell, because he pulled out a lot, too. There are some players who believe that if we have to pull the slide out a lot we are playing "wrong," but I'll take Werner's playing any day.

Gold does feel different--it warms more quickly, and feels a bit more slippery on the lips. The sound doesn't change, though.

Enjoy your new horn!

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