trumpetpimp

Leigh,

I was just wondering, since your horns are custom made for each individual do you reccomend having the gap adjusted straight from the shop for a specific mouthpiece brand? I have switched to GR pieces excluseivly so I was wondering if you thought it would be wise to have a horn adjusted for these. Gary writes some pretty specific numbers here http://www.grmouthpieces.com/questions3.htm

What do you think?

An aside: Does anyone have any ideas for customizing a horn? The only thing I can come up with is that I want satin silver with polished accents and a thumb ring instead of a saddle. Anyone else have any cool ideas?

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Bruce Lee

trumpetpimp,

Re: GAP/GR mouthpieces... A picture is worth a thousand words. :wink:



Just east of the valve buttons... Yep, GR's! Gotcha covered!


Best always,
Bruce

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TangneyK

Another mouthpiece maker that enables you to "tweek" with the "all-important gap" is Bob Reeves. When you order a mp through him, just specify that you want it "cut for sleeves" and order yourself a set of sleeves. I think there are 4-6 different sleeves you can order.

The Reeves pieces that I have are:

-42 C (my "all-around/practice" mp)
-42 B (Deep cup, dark jazz and "legit" mp)
--42 SV69 (Screeeeeeeams.)

All are gold plated, screw rim, and are cut for sleeves. I play on a Bach, and I've found the 3.5 sleeve works best for me. So does practicing.

--Kevin