[TPIN] Gustav Heim

[David Anderson]

Wm. Vacchiano told me on more than one occasion, "Gustav Heim made me a great trumpet player overnight."  It seems that before Vacchiano encountered Heim, he (Vacchiano) played mediumish mouthpieces, and it was Heim who turned him on to the huge mouthpieces that came to be associated with Vacchiano during the largest part of his career.  It was because of the influence of Heim, along with a natural curiosity regarding mouthpieces, that Vacchiano was always altering his student's mouthpieces by scraping on them with a 3 sided reamer.  I don't know of anyone who ever continued playing a mpce that Vacchiano ever altered.  I still have several, which I keep for no other reason than sentiment.
David Anderson