Windhager Mouthpieces

[Peach]

Anyone have experience with these?
I think they have popularity, particularly in Austria - Mr Brandstotter of Mnozil fame for one.

I'm pretty confused looking at the website - there seems to be no logical size progression. Maybe the same is true of Perantucci and they do well...

http://www.whf-mouthpieces.at/kataloge/ ... F_Engl.PDF" target="_blank

[Donn]

Just from that PDF, it sounds like you order by mix and match, so you could get whatever rim shape of 6 choices, the diameter you like of 9 choices in 0.3mm increments, 5 choices of contrabass cups and 6 choices of back bore. Don't know whether all the cups fit the standard "6" back bore diameter, nor how the choice of rim diameter affects the shape at the top of the cup. The level of detailed information has to be head and shoulders over anything I've seen anywhere else.

[hubert]

I have bought a mouthpiece from Franz Windhager once. Really marvellous. BUT, for me the only way to make a good choice from his vast (for me confusing) offerings, was to attend one of the "workshops" he regularly gives. At such an occasion you can have 1/2 hour with Windhager himself and get his advice.
Rather difficult procedure. (I dare not to order from his catalog). Besides that, expensive mouthpieces.
So, I am back with Joseph Klier now. They have a catalog (scheme of measures) I am able to read.
Hubert

[Peach]

I read that you buy the rim with a number corresponding to the cup. The only point of screw rims for these is to offer different rim profiles, so I assume the inside contour from rim to cup is exactly as per a one-piece mouthpiece. Expensive.

[barry grrr-ero]

I might be wrong, but I think Windhager is famous for making mouthpieces that really work for the Viennese single F horns that are so prevalent in Vienna (especially the Phil.).

[Peach]

I might be wrong, but I think Windhager is famous for making mouthpieces that really work for the Viennese single F horns that are so prevalent in Vienna (especially the Phil.).

Well, Herr Windhager is a bass trombonist which is where he started with mouthpieces I think. I've heard they are widely used amongst Austrian brass professionals and gaining ground through Germany. No doubt they are well made and very fine pieces...