Jens Lindemann On Choosing A Trumpet Mouthpiece to Suit Your Embouchure

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org - Jens Lindemann, renowned trumpet soloist and Professor of Trumpet at UCLA, offers his opinions on choosing a mouthpiece to suit your embouchure and what you want to do with the trumpet, and encourages players to look beyond the Bach size 1 that every student starts on to find the mouthpiece that's right for them.

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[mattyp434]

@bornaprince5 Well that is not necessarily true. I have been playing for 15+ years and cannot feel that much of a difference in actual trumpet bore size. The only thing that really matters is mouthpiece size that is comfortable TO YOU. I have been messing with mouthpieces far too much in my time so far as a player, and I just switched back to a Bach 3C because it is comfortable, not Warburton, Schilke, or Marcinkeiwicz because they had "cool stats" on them

[who8mahbacon]

@javy0005 2 and a half FTW!

[javy0005]

1 and a half c ftw

[trumpetdudeman07]

@bornaprince5 I believe that Lindemann was speaking mostly about cup size. I do however agree with you, big bore horns need big bore mpcs. They just won't get the right amount of sound filled air to vibrate the lead pipe.

[chasefreak]

FINALLY somebody making sense about MPCS! This is what I've been preaching for 20 years!

[bornaprince5]

I think this is mostly wrong as a professor from RCM told me that you should play a rim size that is equivalent to the bore or your trumpet. So i use bach strad 43h large bore with a 1c, and a 3c with my medium large bore smith watkins trumpet. LARGE BORE TRUMPETS NEED THE VOLUME OF AIR FROM A BIG MOUTHPIECE TO FILL THE TUBING AND GET A LARGE SOUND THEY WERE DESIGNED FOR

[yourbrassinstructor]

good info!

[Ricktpt1]

I've been saying this since I was 16. Sometimes common sense can finally emerge in a world predicated on "herd mentality".

[mtjtrumpet]

Briliant!!!!! Work smarter, not harder!!! Remember, people, that Bud Herseth did the majority of his work on a 7C, until his car wreck, which he suffered nerve damage from and HAD to move to a larger mouthpiece!

Bravo, Jens!!!!