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I purchased an old denis wick 4am medium shank euphonium mouthpiece many years ago, while i was a student at university in glasgow, scotland. Dead axe music music by ryan haines a site providing information on trombonist ryan haines, including his cds and published music. Jan 25, 2018 from the nashville trombone symposium in may of 1981, here is a onehour presentation by the great denis wick. They all work well with tubes either in, extended, or removed. Denis wick accessories provide brass players with many practical items for cleaning and maintaining their instruments. Denis wick products is now adding a warning label to all its mouthpieces in order to confirm with the californian proposition 65 regulations. Like bach, the wick numbering system is set up so that the larger cup mouthpieces receive a smaller number. He is also an internationally respected brass teacher and designer of brass mutes and mouthpieces. I did not realise at first that it was not a trombone mouthpiece, and when i put it into my small bore trombone, the mouthpiece was sticking so far out that i had to adjust my tuning slide, to have the instrument in tune properly. Denis wick describes in his book trombone technique wick, 1984 the legato. Like the heavytop series, added mass near the throatbackbore provide focus to the sound.
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