[TPIN] mouthpiece booster

[Josh Landress]

I am making a new type of sleeve.  I am using wood to increase vibration and
decrease it in other places of the mouthpiece.  Here is a review posted on
http://www.trumpetherald.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=66702 by a gentleman who
came into the shop and purchased one.



"Had the pleasure a couple of weeks ago of meeting Josh Landress, brass
repairman/trumpet designer/builder extraordinaire at his shop in the Sam Ash
store on 48th St NYC. Great fun trying his design trumpets as well as superb
vintage Martin Committes, original French Bessons, and intelligently
modified Bach Strads.

The best was his Wooden Sleeve Sound Enhancement System. This brass and wood
collar attaches to the mouthpiece stem by means of a set screw. Don't ask me
how or why it works. The effect was like turning your trumpet from a $300
student horn into a $3500 custom model. The problem here was that I was
already playing my $4500 Thein custom sliding gold brass bell Bb! The tone
centered even better, the accurate intonation locked into place more easily,
and the articulation, especially in the high register, was just easier to
make.

After practicing for an hour, I experienced a near shutdown of my high
register above high D. I'm a "legit" player with decent high F's and G's
which became unavailable with this attachment, but I patiently practiced my
standard exercise routine, and every day, I gained back a semitone. After
around a week the F's and G's were back, stronger, louder and more in tune
than ever!

Overall volume of tone increased as I played louder, so I did my warmups at
FFF. Normally, 45 minutes of this kind of blasting would have given me
swollen chops. The only problem I had was that my tone became somewhat fuzzy
and soft. Not unfocused, just a little flugelhorn like. Ten minutes rest,
and my chops were back to normal. As my chops became more accustomed to not
working as hard, my endurance playing long passages in Charlier, Walter
Smith, etc, increased.

Two more areas of improvement were ability to play softly, and reduced
warmup time. I normally warm up for 20-45 minutes, and still do, but when
time is short, I can pick up the horn cold and I'm up to speed in a few
minutes of pedal tones and flexibility slurs. Playing very quiet passages
after very loud is no problem with this attachment. No more tendency to go
sharp holding a note in the high register.

I tried removing the attachment. This is not recommended. At first,
everything gets worse, kind of like missing a step on a staircase. After
around a half hour of warmup, things get back to "normal", but "normal" is
just unacceptable.
Pictures and contact info are at www.jlandressbrass.com.
Arthur Grudko"

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Josh Landress 
J. Landress Brass 
Wooden Sleeve Sound Enhancement System
Hand-made Trumpets & Trombones 
Hand-made mouthpipes 
Mouthpiece alterations 
Expert Brass repair and restorations 
www.jlandressbrass.com 
www.myspace.com/jlandress
516-521-7101
-----Original Message-----
From: tpin-bounces at tpin.okcu.edu [mailto:tpin-bounces at tpin.okcu.edu] On
Behalf Of Larry Cipriani
Sent: Wednesday, July 04, 2007 6:34 AM
To: tpin at tpin.okcu.edu
Subject: Re: [TPIN] mouthpiece booster


I used one for a while and got rid of it.  It wasn't doing me any good
and made it harder to play by deadening the sound.

Larry

--- Howard Norsetter <HowardNorsetter at twinsbaseball.com> wrote:

> Has anybody used a mouthpiece booster? I've seen them for Dennis Wick
> mouthpieces. I've heard claims of richer lower register, and easier
> upper register. Do they work?
> 
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