Yamaha 11B4/11C4: NOT a 7C equivalent? | Mouthpiece Spotlight

There are LOTS of these 11B4 and 11C4 mouthpieces floating around in the trumpet world, and they're usually used as starter mouthpieces in the same way as a Bach 7C. The 11C4 is usually even engraved "11C4-7C" to emphasize this point. But are these mouthpieces really as close to a 7C as they claim to be? Today we take a very close and very nerdy look at two run-of-the-mill mouthpieces to see how true that premise is.

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