Standard shank, but overall length is slightly longer than a modern mouthpiece. Very heavy when compared to a 'normal' trumpet mouthpiece.Available in silver and gold plate finish.Heavy mouthpiece with very small, shallow cup and wide rim. If anyone can shed some light on where and when this mouthpiece was made, please let me know.Ĭommonly sold with Bueschers of the 1920sĬommonly sold with Buescher trumpets from the 1920s.Styling is somewhat similar to the Benge-made Claude Gordon mouthpieces.Styling does not appear to be like 'LA Benge' trumpet mouthpieces.Styling appears to be like the 'Chicago Benge' trumpet mouthpieces.Plays exactly like the 'Chicago Benge' cornet mouthpiece also posted to this database.

Mouthpiece stamped 'Benge' with no other markings of any kind.If you know who made the 'Parillo Model' mouthpiece, or who/what 'Parillo' refers to, please let me know. Plays much like a Holton Heim Model 1, but has a slightly smaller throat.Styling is very, very similar to Holton Heim.Mouthpiece is stamped 'PARILLO MODEL' with no other markings of any kind.Cup shapes, depths and diameters are about the same. Phila.' on the shank of the mouthpiece on the right. Phila.' on the shank of the mouthpiece on the left. Pryor Model' stamped on the outside of each cup. This mouthpiece came with a 1947 Olds Ambassador trombone. Rim: approx.9375, rim width: approx.3125.įrench shank (very small trombone shank). It is reported that this mouthpiece was made as a joke, and referenced Bill Crow’s 'Jazz Anecdoates' as documentation Dates to 1918.ġ8.5 mm diameter cup, deep V, cornet shank. It has a contoured rim that was Couturier’s trademark. You can just make them out in the photo of the cup.ī was a size designation. The throat is a perfect seven sided shape with a cut entering into the cup from the apex of each of the seven sides. The really unique aspect of this mouthpiece is its throat, which is nor drilled round, but has been hand-cut in the shape of a heptagon. Labeled 'A E Mathey 62 Sudbury St Boston' he had a shop here c.1918-1925 specializing in making mouthpieces. The Holton Heim mouthpieces of this style do NOT have screw rims.When packaged with a trumpet, an adapter (as shown) would be included.Numbers 1 and 2 (no others observed yet).Named after Gustav Heim, who presumably worked with Holton to design this line of mouthpieces.Made in Elkhorn, Wisconsin after about 1930. Later examples stamped 'Frank Holton & Co.' near rim.Early examples stamped 'Frank Holton Chicago' on shank.(then 2 hands locked in a handshake) COUESNON ET CIE, 94 RUE D'ANGOULEME, PARISįrom c.1900 John Heald cornet, Springfield, MA Only a couple of these are known to exist.ĮMBOUCHURE RAYEE, GUILBAUT BTE.Mouthpiece stamped 'Benge' and 'Chicago' with no other markings of any kind.Presumably this is the mouthpiece supplied with a Lyon-Healy Own Make Alto horn.

Guilbaut was the inventor of the Rayee = grooved throat mouthpiece. The Dobie mouthpiece was patented in 1942 by Joseph W.

Buescher trumpet model 10