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November 22, 2007

french horn mouthpiece - custom mouthpiece

No. 6 is the width of the cup, its diameter on the inside of the rim. No. 7 is the outside diameter of the rim. The 8th critical measurement is diameter of the shank at the very bottom or end where the shank makes contact with the mouthpipe that is shown in part in Figure B [below] where the tubing inside the mouthpiece receiver pipe abuts, or should abut, the shank end of the mouthpiece.
The system consists of interchangeable “TOP” sections and “BACKBORE” sections.

french horn mouthpiece
custom mouthpiece

he wider or more open we make the shoulder of the throat, the mellower becomes the tone. In I the throat and cup shape combine into one long cup similar to that in a French horn mouthpiece, which, if used on the trumpet, is colorless. It is possible to achieve a judicious combination with the shallow cup which aids the lip and still avoid the stridency of tone usually produced by such a mouthpiece as F. This is done by opening the shoulder somewhat as shown in E, resulting in the double-cup originally designed by L. A. Schmidt of Cologne about seventy years ago for use in the low F, E, Eb, and D trumpets used by R. Strauss. These latter instruments incidentally but significantly, were played in the upper harmonics like a French horn. The double-cup mouthpiece makes for easier control in the difficult high passages.

As shown in the dimensions of mouthpieces by Rohner, the average throat diameter uses a 27 drill size. Small throats of 30 or even smaller and extremely large throats of 18 or 19 used by some players, but these extremes should be avoided by the average player.

 

May 26, 2007

Norge Online

Are you searching for the same stuff on the web that everybody is after? The solution to how to successfully find that is to go to sites that provides ready made searches. Ready made searches in the sense that they have lists of what people before you have searched for. It can be any broad topic like music, cars ,video, cd, free stuff, stores to buy books or it can be very narrowed searches like fast cheap cars, irish rock music from 1980 to 1981 or umbrellas from Spain. You must make sure that the web sites that have the ready made searches you are taking advantage from have their own search engine. Meta searches will not do it as you will get to broad results. Also make sure that the sites you use have been around for a while. New sites tend to have less opportunities than older sites. The older sites has build up a cache full of search results so they can serve you very quick, they also know what people want. If you have to use a new site, expect to wait a bit longer for the search results. Another thing to remember is that it is best to use sites that are dedicating them self to one country. Then the search results will be very specific to what you are after. An example of an old site that is restricted to only one country is norge online. This site crawls the whole norwegian web for you and deliver results quickly on demand.

 
 

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