Hornlip
04-17-2003, 04:19 PM
I've got a "Harwood" metal alto piece that's covered all over with a thin layer of rubber -- except the facing and about 1/8" of the tip on top of the bill. It came with a "Harwood Professional" silver-plated alto. The horn's a Buescher stencil of the round pearl G# pinky type. I'm selling them both for a friend.
The mouthpiece is made of a fairly heavy silver-colored metal. It has a giant scooped-out barrel chamber and a narrow tip opening (though not the narrowest I've seen on old mouthpieces). It actually plays very well, though it obviously comes out of a thoroughly pre-jazz tonal conception. It produces a very pretty flute-like sound, but to my Meyer-formed ears & chops, it's very quiet and has an odd far-away quality to it -- like somebody's playing the horn in another part of the house, not me!!
Anybody every run across one of these rubber-coated pieces, or one like it?
The mouthpiece is made of a fairly heavy silver-colored metal. It has a giant scooped-out barrel chamber and a narrow tip opening (though not the narrowest I've seen on old mouthpieces). It actually plays very well, though it obviously comes out of a thoroughly pre-jazz tonal conception. It produces a very pretty flute-like sound, but to my Meyer-formed ears & chops, it's very quiet and has an odd far-away quality to it -- like somebody's playing the horn in another part of the house, not me!!
Anybody every run across one of these rubber-coated pieces, or one like it?