Posted by Doug Elliott on February 04, 2003 at 10:17:49:
In Reply to: I need a large, heavy mouthpiece. posted by Andy Weldon on February 03, 2003 at 21:22:10:
Nobody "needs" a big heavy mouthpiece to focus their sound. What did everybody do before this current fad started?
You have an absolutely HUGE mouthpiece there. Just about anybody would have trouble focusing on it. I think you were playing on a much smaller horn before, and the Kalison is a completely different situation. Of course you're having trouble centering it. Any other mouthpiece is going to feel small to you now that you've spent a year playing on that 138 rim.
Good luck finding something. If you're interested, a T5E shank would probably help a lot. The T6 I think you have probably goes too far into the Kalison's receiver, and that would make it uncentered.