Need some help with IDing....

[Mighty_Mouse]

I found it at an older park. I know the first thing i was thinking was a mouth part for a trumpt but it is not this. I know that for a fact. Its got a letter on it on the small pipe end toward the top. also there are markings on it from where someone grabbed it with a wrench and twisted it. It doesn't look like it comes apart anywhere but from the marks on it the pipe end did fit into something. Thanks for any help. HH

 

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[Daniel in Ak]

its a mouth piece to a musical instrument.Looks just like a Bugle mouth piece.

 

[omnicognic]

looks like the mouth piece to a horn of some kind (bugle, thrombone, french horn, trumpet etc.) what's the letter on the pipe? How do you know for a fact that it's not for a trumpet? 8)

 

[PAmike]

It is definitel a mouth piece for any of the following. trumpet, coronet, tombone, tuba, of anither horn instrumenmt. They tend to get stuck easily which would explain the marks from pliers. I played a coronet as a kid in elementary school, till I found out there were better things to do, like girls. lol


mike

 

[Mighty_Mouse]

It might be a mouth piece but the marks that were left by the pliers.......Ok i looked it over more and the marks look like there from a flat head screwdriver or something close to that. What it looks like is something was used and pushed against the head/wide part and maybe a hammer to hit the screwdriver with to try to remove it. And it's the letter C

 

[TOWcritter]

That kind of answers that question! I used to play sax and horn.

 

[skyrider]

It might be a mouth piece but the marks that were left by the pliers.......Ok i looked it over more and the marks look like there from a flat head screwdriver or something close to that.? What it looks like is something was used and pushed against the head/wide part and maybe a hammer to hit the screwdriver with to try to remove it.? ?And it's the letter C

I played cornet for 9 years and French Horn for 2 years...it's probably a trumpet/cornet/bugle mouthpiece, as others have noted here.? The "C" marking refers to the size (and in some instances, shape) of the mouthpiece.? There's usually a number preceeding the letter, such as 3C, 7C, or 9C (or any number of combinations, depending on the manufacturer...)

And without going into the finer points of stuck mouthpiece removal, I can see where someone would have used a screwdriver and hammer to try to remove the mouthpiece...using pliers and twisting usually will only twist up the lead pipe really nicely.? ?? (They make mouthpiece pullers that would be the correct way to remove a stuck mouthpiece, but someone without access to one of those might resort to more crude methods such as the evidence shown on your find...)

There...more than y'all ever wanted to know about brasswind mouthpieces.?

Great find, btw!