Philip Myers

French Horn Mouthpieces

This unique model is based on a design taken from early Viennese style horn mouthpieces. The cup is a long funnel shape. This most unusual feature gives this mouthpiece great depth and warmth of sound while still allowing for tremendous efficiency throughout the ranges.

"The basic problem of finding a mouthpiece that both provides a ring to the sound in soft playing, yet does not break-up in extremely loud playing finds its solution here. This mouthpiece is virtually impossible to over blow and the sound is quite even throughout the ranges. This mouthpiece has no traditional bowl, but rather curves in instead down from the rim. This cup design, plus the slightly longer length of this mouthpiece, causes an M1 to feel like a conventional 4 or 5 bore and an M8 more like the conventional 12 bore. These mouthpieces simply do not take as much air to play as the same sized mouthpiece you are now using."     

Philip Myers
Principal Horn, New York Philharmonic

                                                                                                                                                                                                                    Photo by Chris Lee

The Myers Rim

SHAPE

This rim is very narrow. It is a reverse contour rim in that the high point is slightly toward the outside of the rim sloping inward with a soft bite.

WIDTH     

The rim width measures

.117" or 2.971 mm.

                                       INNER DIAMETER

The inner diameter of the Myers rim measures .662" or 16.814mm

The Myers Cup

A very deep cup with little to no contour.

 Model #'s / Bore Sizes

The Myers models are named after the size of their bores