[TPIN] Playing too sharp on a different horn.

[Robert V. Robinson]

I can't really offer any suggestions, just relating my own
experience with the same thing.

I went from a medium large bore to a very large bore a 
couple of years ago, and had the same problem, although
it wasn't as much as you have said (almost a half step, you 
said).  I have to pull the slide out considerably further on
my new horn than I had to with my old horn.

I have also noticed issues with certain mouthpieces.  It
seems, at least in my case, smaller/shallower mouthpieces
don't work as well on my new horn.



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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J Perales" <jrpjazz at yahoo.com>
To: <tpin at tpin.okcu.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 4:00 PM
Subject: [TPIN] Playing too sharp on a different horn.

> I've been playing for more than a year with a large
> bore horn which is excellent, and definitely a better
> horn than my old one. The strange thing is that while
> playing with accompaniment tracks that I've played
> before certain songs are off tune (that's my playing).
> One particular song I can't play because it's most of
> the time too sharp and never in tune. 
> 
> This never  happened before with my old horn. 

> The old horn has a medium large bore and has more
> (resistance) than this one, and I'm still playing with
> the same mouthpiece, which has always suited me fine.
>