{"id":471,"date":"2015-12-01T10:39:35","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T10:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldnoseconsulting.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2020-02-26T14:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-02-26T14:14:19","slug":"volume-5-the-trumpet-chronicles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/2015\/12\/volume-5-the-trumpet-chronicles\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume 5 &#8211; The Trumpet Chronicles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coldnoseconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/yam-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-447\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coldnoseconsulting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/yam-11-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"yam-11\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>So, last night I was at band practice. \u00a0We were quickly running through some of the Christmas music for our first concert on the 13th. \u00a0I was using the Yamaha 11 mouthpiece I mentioned in a previous post with my silver Olds Ambassador trumpet. \u00a0Strangely, my lip got really tired way early in the practice, long before I expected it to. \u00a0On a whim, I switched to my generic 3C mouthpiece, and quickly found new life and endurance. \u00a0My tonal quality came back\u00a0substantially also.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So it looks like the 3C is the size for me. \u00a0I just need to find a mouthpiece with the comfort of the Yamaha rim, and a comparable 3C size. \u00a0According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/usa.yamaha.com\/products\/musical-instruments\/winds\/mouthpieces\/mouthpiece_compatibility_chart\/\">Yamaha Mouthpiece Compatibility Chart for trumpet<\/a>, a 14B4 mouthpiece is compatable to a Bach 3C. \u00a0Hopefully the rim will have a similar profile to the 11 I mentioned.<\/p>\n<p>The nice thing about trumpet mouthpieces is that there are hundreds of them on eBay, from cheap Chinese copies for $2.95 to 3 figure custom shank and rim combinations, water-filled mouthpieces, and so on. \u00a0So I have a bid in on a nice used 14B4, and we&#8217;ll see if I get it or not.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;great mouthpiece hunt&#8221; continues&#8230; l&#8217;ll stay in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, last night I was at band practice. \u00a0We were quickly running through some of the Christmas music for our first concert on the 13th. \u00a0I was using the Yamaha 11 mouthpiece I mentioned in a previous post with my silver Olds Ambassador trumpet. \u00a0Strangely, my lip got really tired way early in the practice, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40],"tags":[42,45,138,77,65,36,41,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/coldnose.us\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}