Blechblas-Instrumentenbau Egger

Our trumpet mouthpieces are either copies of historical mouthpieces from various museums, or adaptions thereof. Through high precision copying and optimisation at critical points, we endeavour to produce mouthpieces that possess the characteristics of the original, while allowing for the high demands placed on the players of today.

Mouthpieces with a flat rim produce a bright, overtone-rich sound and greater accuracy than their counterparts with rounded rims.
Custom made mouthpieces formed around the ideas and wishes of the individual are a speciality of ours (e.g. to fit your rim or cup dimensions etc.).

Salzburg-Series

The Salzburg Mouthpiece No. 5 is based on an original that was together with a trumpet by Johann Wilhelm Haas, Inv.No. 27/2, located in the Carolino Augusteum museum in Salzburg.
At the suggestion of Dr Edward H. Tarr, it was copied and through further collaboration, a series was developed.
Their dark, rich, yet fine tonal colours make them perfect for 3 hole trumpets and 4-hole long trumpets.
All of the mouthpieces in this series are available with a flat or rounded rim, to enable newcomers, or players that frequently alternate between modern and baroque trumpet, to find one that suits them.

Model Salzburg	Specifications	Cup Ø mm	Rim Ø mm	Troat Ø mm	Price in brass CHF	Price Silver plated CHF

S3	-Principal mouthpiece -well suited for low register	18,56	30,36	4,3	120.-	150.-

S4	-Principal mouthpiece -well suited for low register	18,06	29,54	4,3	120.-	150.-

S5	-copy of Haas-mouthpiece -well suited for middle and low register	17,69	28,64	4,2	120.-	150.-

S5R	-like S5 but with rounded rim	17,66	27,99	4,2	120.-	150.-

S6	-smaller than S5 -well suited for middle register	17,25	28,0	4,2	120.-	150.-

S6R	-like S6 but with rounded rim	17,27	27,6	4,2	120.-	150.-

S7	-smaller than S6 -well suited for middle and high register	16,86	27,5	4,0	120.-	150.-

S7R	-like S7 but with rounded rim	16,86	27,19	4,0	120.-	150.-

S8	-with shallower cup -cup form similar to Kerner cup -well suited for high register	16,86	27,5	3,9	120.-	150.-

S8R	-like S8 but with rounded rim	16,86	27,19	3,9	120.-	120.-

S9	-smaller than S7 and S8 -well suited for high register	16,45	27,09	3,9	120.-	150.-

S9R	-like S9 but with rounded rim	16,45	26,78	3,9	120.-	150.-

SI (Salzburg/Immer) Series

The Salzburg model served as a basis for the development of this series, realized in collaboration with Friedemann Immer and conforming to his ideals.
These mouthpieces have a bright, brilliant tone and good flexibility.The OPT-mouthpieces are extra short. The dimensions of their bore and backbore have been calculated with a computer program for acoustical optimization.

“Of the surviving baroque trumpet mouthpieces that I am aware of, one characteristic is always present: they possess, contrary to modern mouthpieces, a sharp edge at the point of entry to the throat from the cup. This sharp edge is, in my opinion, important in playing the baroque trumpet for at least three reasons:

2. The notes, particularly in the upper register are more centered, and easier to play although the throat is very open.

3. Changing the pitch of certain notes (i.e. playing without holes) becomes easier.

My experiences have shown that such a mouthpiece improves playing in every register, from the extreme low (G and C, 2nd and 3rd partials) to the extreme high (e’’’ and further, 20th partial). A very broad dynamic range from pp to ff is also possible”

ST-Series

This series takes its reference from an English mouthpiece from around 1800, probably by the maker Pace, from the collection of Edward H. Tarr (ex Joseph Wheeler, London). The main body is of brass with a silver rim soldered to the top, as is often the case with historical mouthpieces from England. Tarr played the deep-cupped original from 1980 –1982 but changed to an Egger-copy because of the difficulty that the former posed in playing the highest D trumpet parts. To compensate for this, our copy has a shallower cup. The rim shape of the original has been slightly rounded to resembles a modern rim form and the inner diameter of the cup is similar to a Vincent Bach 1 ½ C.
The mouthpieces in the ST series produce a bright sound and are equally suitable for the 3 or 4 –hole trumpet. They are especially recommended to players who use a similar sized mouthpiece on their modern trumpet and are looking for a rim form and cup depth to assist with the changeover from valved to baroque trumpet.

Bull Series

This mouthpiece series is based on an original by William Bull, located in the London Museum. Eric Halfpenny had the mouthpiece measured and published these results, (upon which our model is based) in “The Galpin Society Journal XX”. The following models were created in close cooperation with Jean-François Madeuf.
Their bright, brilliant sound production and flexibility are particularly suited to the playing of (holeless) long, natural trumpets. Despite having a broad cup diameter, they are designed for use in the upper register.

Historical trumpet mouthpieces

Salzburg-Series

SI (Salzburg/Immer) Series

ST-Series

Bull Series