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Traditional Engelbert Schmid Mouthpieces

There a four widths to meet the individual lip sizes. For each rim width there are five cups: shallow, medium shallow, medium, medium deep and deep, in order to achieve a brighter or darker sound, an easier high register or a more voluminous low register. Usually Engelbert Schmid mouthpieces are used with the original bore. For individual needs sometimes it's an advantage to drill out the bore for one or two tenths of a millimeter. In this case the curve of the cup has to be adjusted. More info »

Digital Engelbert Schmid Mouthpieces

A new development in Engelbert Schmid mouthpieces

The traditional mouthpiece production is done by copying a hand made example with tools that have to be repeatedly sharpened.

Although the sample may be very good, it is not possible to get a perfect copy of the curvature by hand. There will also be a certain tolerance due to the necessity of repeatedly sharpening the tools. The Original or Model Engelbert Schmid mouthpieces that exist since 1981 are made with utmost care from samples that were made by hand by Engelbert Schmid himself. This very successful series of mouthpieces will be continued, with only two minor improvements:

1. The shaft is now a uniform taper between Morse and metric so that they fit in just about any mouthpipe.
2. Exact geometric research show the necessity of increasing the bore by 2/10 mm at each step from shallow, through semi shallow, middle, semi deep and deep.

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