Using the Demondrae on trombone was a total fluke for me. I had that piece with me at the 2019 ITEC and was playing some euphoniums in the Adams/ACB room. When Miel pops up with their new trombone, the Adams TB-1. So I played that with the only mouthpiece I had, my silver Demondrae. I liked it! Not just a little, a bunch. The low register was the absolute best I have played on any trombone. The F section of the TB-1 is very free blowing. The low Eb is just exactly like the F above it without the trigger. Same timbre, same everything, except it is a different note. I played it for a long while. Then I came back the next day to do it again, and I liked it just as much. I ended up buying that exact trombone from Miel/ACB at the end of the conference.
When I got home, I tried the TB-1 trombone with all of my trombone mouthpieces. I liked the Demondrae mp the best. I had an Edwards Alessi model at home and I liked the Adams better, so I sold the Alessi model. That trombone never quite worked out for me, no matter how hard I tried. But the Adams TB-1 with the standard Demondrae mouthpiece is an absolute great fit for me. How handy to use the exact same mouthpiece for euphonium and trombone. Those are the two instruments that I spend virtually all my playing time on.
I have to admit, this is not the outcome I would have expected with the Demondrae mouthpiece on my tenor trombone. I may do a short video of that set up sometime down the road. I guess it is somewhat relevant to this forum as it is a euphonium mouthpiece being used on both a euphonium and trombone. Maybe I should play both instruments back-to-back on the same excerpt(s) with the Demondrae mouthpiece used exclusively for both.
My custom Warburton 7ST feels identical to my demondrae on my face, so it’s the same result. In fact, I like the rim shape so much, I had Greg Black replicate the shape for me on a 1-1/4 G for Bass trombone.
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