Customer Reviews

Asymmetric Lead 342 Trumpet Mouthpiece

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I've been playing the Lead 342 for over 3 years. I researched it through the studies by John Lynch. it has a great feel. I get a great tone and strength in the upper range, without straining and that's most important!

I find that my endurance has doubled. I can play a 3-4 hr gig without a problem. John's studies have helped me reform my embouchure to be efficient finally after 35 years of playing!

Kudos to John and to the Asymmetric Lead 342!!!!!

Bill Crawford

I rate this mouthpiece with 5 stars -- but in reality I can't get the thing to work for me very well. BUT for trumpet players looking for a better mouthpiece for endurance I highly recommend Asymmetric. The caveat here is that this mpc. led me to another Asymmetric mouthpiece (3C+544) which is my main mouthpiece now -- and is easier for me to play, and gives greater range and endurance than I ever had. So I highly recommend anything that leads you to play your trumpet better -- Asymmetric( I am 46, and comeback to the trumpet after a decade off -- but people you still have to practice --- that is the bottome line --- take a mouthpiece (in my case a 3C+544) and use it, and develop it, and play and be happy.

This mouthpiece gives you a potent lead sound, in tone, but is a little bit difficult to produce soft sound, and the embochure position changes using this mouthpiece. If you uses traditional mouthpieces for other music styles it will be difficult to switch to the Asymmetric.