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Renold Otto Schilke (June 30, 1910 – September 5, 1982) was a professional orchestral trumpet player, instrument designer and manufacturer. He founded and ran Schilke Music Products Incorporated, a manufacturer of brass instruments and mouthpieces.
The mouthpiece on brass instruments is the part of the instrument placed on the player's lips. The mouthpiece is a circular opening that is enclosed by a rim and that leads to the instrument via a semi-spherical or conical cavity called the cup.
David G. Monette (born 1956, Kalamazoo, Michigan) is an American craftsman who designs and builds custom brass instruments and mouthpieces for musicians. [1] [2]Monette's experience as a trumpeter and the influence of acoustician Arthur Benade led Monette to redesign the trumpet mouthpiece with the goal of improving playability and sound quality.
Most leadpipes are permanently fixed in the instrument, though aftermarket changes, usually carried out by a repairer, are quite common. [1] Some instruments have a detachable leadpipe to allow changing key; to permit the player to easily select different playing and tonal characteristics; [2] or simply to act as the instrument's main tuning slide where the shape, or other design issues, make ...
With this rich background and his talent as an accomplished machinist, Mr. Callet was able to release his first line of trumpet mouthpieces in 1973, and his first trumpet under his own brand name in 1984. [2] [3] In 1973, he also developed a line of mouthpieces to complement his embouchure theories. In the meantime, he taught embouchure ...
The B♭ soprano trombone is built with dimensions similar to the B♭ trumpet. The bore size is between 0.450 and 0.470 inches (11.4 and 11.9 mm), and the bell is 5 to 6 inches (130 to 150 mm) in diameter. It usually takes a trumpet mouthpiece, although some instruments are made with a smaller shank to take a cornet mouthpiece. [2]
According to Farkas [5] the mouthpiece should have 2 ⁄ 3 upper lip and 1 ⁄ 3 lower lip (French horn), 2 ⁄ 3 lower lip and 1 ⁄ 3 upper lip (trumpet and cornet), and more latitude for lower brass (trombone, baritone, and tuba). For trumpet, some also advocate 1 ⁄ 2 upper lip and 1 ⁄ 2 lower lip.
Embouchure collapse is far more common among trumpet and horn players. Both of these instruments have mouthpieces with a small circumference and surface area, and therefore the pressure is presumably greater, as the force of the mouthpiece on the face is more concentrated. This is by the principle of physics that pressure is the amount of force ...