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Hello everyone! I am brand new to these forums and I have been looking for advice for a while now.
I've been thinking about changing my mouthpiece for a while but I'm not quite sure what to change it to.

I play in a symphonic band, a jazz band, and a marching band, but I've been looking to change to a mouthpiece that would help me during marching band (which I hope could help my sound in symphonic)

At the current moment I play on a Bach 5G, but I feel like its no longer adequate. I know that mouthpieces are based on my own personal preference but I would love to hear suggestions and ideas!

What in the 5G is not working for you?

I know that mouthpieces are based on my own personal preference but I would love to hear suggestions and ideas!

Not just personal preference, but personal anatomy and type/size of trombone, as well as repertoire, etc.

The 5G is already a symphonic mouthpiece.

BGuttman wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2024 2:54 pm What in the 5G is not working for you?

Yeah, what does "no longer adequate" mean? In what way is it no longer adequate? If you don't have some fairly specific goal for a change, nobody can suggest an alternative -- and definitely one that might possibly address your own goals.

If you’re a senior in high school, you’re still developing physically and as a musician. I’d suggest getting input from people who can hear you in person and who you trust, like teachers, fellow students, other players who you admire, etc.

Doug Elliott, one of the moderators here on TC, is very knowledgeable about mouthpieces, embouchures, etc. He would also be a good person to consult.

I spent so much time and money on all sorts of mouthpieces. Guess which one I settled on....the Bach 5g...

Found it halfway through grad school. Won my job on it and still use it to this day. Will try others every now and then but I always come back to the 5g...

It might not be the whole 5G design you don't like, just the cup diameter. DE might be able to help you.

That said, the 5G in my book isn't really that great for most tenor playing. Super deep, too narrow of a cup, throat is too narrow, backbore is often huge.

Is the OP a bot?

I don't think so. More likely a high school student. I'd guess in Florida.

Of course, it's getting common to model bots, to one degree or another, on actual people. I play chess against a bunch of those all the time.

In college as a music major in the 80s, I remember gravitating to the Bach 4G mouthpiece more than the 5G. I was playing on a Bach 42B. I played a couple of recital pieces that begged for a nice fat sound from B-flat down to E below the staff, and the bigger mouthpiece freed up my sound down there appreciably. The 5G was fine in the middle register, and very comfortable, but didn’t do anything for me that I couldn’t get out of the 6-1/2AL, other than soften the sound when I would hit accents hard. Even recently, I’ve been switching between the 6-1/2AL, the 5G and the 4G when I pick up the 42 horn. Of those three, the 5G is the one that feels weird. I guess I think of it as an attack-softening mouthpiece.