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Re: what to do about loud trumpets

Author: kurth83
Date: 2023-09-08 10:00

As an older trumpet player who recently started to double on clarinet (which brought me to this forum), a possible easy solution is to make them play cornets, which a lot of band literature actually calls for anyway. Cornets are much darker, which means they have less upper harmonics, which means less ear damage and pain. You have to insist on (standard) deep cup cornet mouthpieces too to really get a dark tone that won't hurt. I could shove a trumpet mouthpiece into a cornet and brighten it up considerably which would defeat the purpose there.

I mean this as a serious solution, and wish our band would do it too.

I actually play a very dark, almost cornetish, trumpet with a deep cup mouthpiece (not as deep as a cornet though) and it hurts my ears a lot less than the brighter trumpets I own, which I never play anymore for that reason.

Aging classical trumpet player beginning to learn clarinet as a second.

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