Product Overview
The W3B is designed to meet the needs of a player who likes the characteristics of the Wick 3B cornet mouthpiece. The W4B features a DOC rim and cup design and is machined form a flugel blank and can therefore also be used as a flugelhorn mouthpiece. It is used with a Wedge short cornet shank for cornet, or with the appropriate flugel shank if it is being used for that purpose. This mouthpiece has our new Double Oval Cup (DOC). The diameter of the rim and cup in the vertical dimension is 10/1000 of an inch larger than it is from side to side. This means that the oval shape of the Wedge rim is continued down to the base of the cup where it joins the throat. The DOC design, found only in Wedge mouthpieces, provides the added efficiency of a smaller mouthpiece with the big sound, clear attacks, and flexibility of the larger mouthpiece. Wedge plastic mouthpieces are machined from black Delrin just like our brass and stainless steel models. They have all the advantages of a metal Wedge mouthpiece, the main difference being that they play with a darker sound. Slotting and response is excellent. This top must be used with a Wedge WSh short cornet backbore, which can be ordered as an option or separately from the Backbore section of the store. It can also be used with a special trumpet or flugelhorn shank.
