Curious as to what everyone's setup and preferences are. I'm a trumpet player myself of 10 years and have had to totally rehaul my setup due to my work keeping me from giving my musical instrument the type of attention it deserves.

My setup is a Schilke X3 with a Stork #2 medium shallow cup mouthpiece (pumped option) and #26 bore.

I prefer light trumpets with "heavy" mouthpieces and flat rims. I play a lot of jazz so the free blowing is a must for me as well as a flat rim. Even though I do sacrifice some flexiblity with the flat rim, I find it not a problem since most of the stuff I play isn't classy vegas pub passages. A mouthpiece really doesn't define the musician anyway. Practice makes that a non factor obviously. Sorry for all that mumbo jumbo to all the casual listeners of music and so forth (which is by no means a bad thing), but any skilled musician, brass player especially, should know what I'm talking about.

So what equipment do you brass and woodwind players have and what do you like to play?

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Posted by heatom2

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Posted on 1/28/17 at 7:10 am to FourThreeForty

I have two bach strads, one 1969 model and one 1998. Both model 37s, nothing special, just two solid horns. I'm currently on a 5C mouthpiece. I'm not much of a player though.

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Posted by LuckySo-n-So

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Posted on 1/29/17 at 6:38 am to FourThreeForty

I played for about 15 years when I was younger. Had a Bach like other poster. Used a 10 1/2 C mouthpiece. Shitty or casual players don't use Bach trumpets.

I didn't understand any of that "stork", "pumped", "bore" shite you were talking about.

I played sax as well and owned a 1958 King Super 20 with a metal Runyon "nail em to the wall" mouthpiece. Playing that is how I imagine driving a Rolls Royce would be.

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Posted by SUB

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Posted on 1/30/17 at 12:57 pm to LuckySo-n-So

I have a King 601 - Nothing special, but I'm a beginner.

I took lessons for 4 or 5 months, then decided I wasn't getting anywhere with the teacher, and dropped him. I felt that my technique was off and I kept hitting a wall. I didn't feel like I had a whole lot of control over my pitch and my tone was weak. I really had to strain to hit the higher notes and had trouble playing lower notes and playing softly.

I played for a few more months after my lessons, but bruised my ribs bad playing sports, and never really picked it back up after that. I'd like to get back into it, but that was years ago and now I have kids, can't afford time or $ for a teacher.

Any suggestions for teaching myself?

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Posted by jvbailey3

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Posted on 4/28/17 at 1:23 pm to FourThreeForty

I played for about 20 years and had to stop for about the same amount of time due to necessity. I currently have a 1973 King Silver Flair, bought for me by my parents. Wanted a MF3 but was excited that they splurged for the Silver Flair. I started with a 7C Bach like most, moved to a 10 1/2 C Bach, then a Schilke 14A4A. Have bought about a dozen more different types, including Jet Tone, Wedge, heavy weights. Realized it really doesn't make a difference except in extreme situations to me. Just got a Yamaha Silent Brass System and looking forward to trying it out, but will either have to get my trumpet overhauled due to the flood or get another one in the mean time.

Just trying to figure the best and quickest way, besides just doing it, to get back into be able to play for hours every day.

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