Trumpet Call

[gobblerhunter]

What can I do to change the pitch on a trumpet?  I have made a lot of trumpet calls and they all seem to fall in the medium pitch range.  None are really high or low pitch.

I was hunting in S. Texas last week and had two different gobblers slightly hang up on me while I was using a med. pitch slate call.  I switched to a higher pitch ceramic call and they came on in.  I tried using a med. pitch trumpet and got similiar results.  I had several trumpets with me and they were all in the med. range.

I am going on a hunt next week and call for a new customer.  I wanted to build a new, lower, pitch trumpet and take with me.  This would give an other option.

What can I do to change the pitch?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.


Bill

[gobblerhunter]

I would like to correct previous post.  I said a lower pitch call and I actually should have said higher pitch call. 

Thanks for looking and any comments.

Bill

[TRKYHTR]

Make your mouthpiece hole smaller. You can also try adjusting the dimensions of your Bell end.

TRKYHTR

[callmakerman]

Start with the hole in the mouth piece

[misfire]

What they said

[cleanslate]

I am interested in this topic as well. I have been tinkering with making some trumpets here lately, & for the most part they all have the same pitch regardless of what kind of materials I use. I have been using a stepped hole in my mouthpiece going from 1/8 at the end of my trumpet body to 7/64 on the mouthpiece where it meets the trumpet body, then about half way up the mouthpiece switching over to 5/64. I can't imagine that you would want to go much smaller than that , as it seems it would start getting pretty hard to draw the air through it. Maybe try going with a longer mouthpiece and stepping the size down? Maybe I'll try that this week sometime & report back on that. What I've found to work best on the trumpets that I've made so far is using 4 steps in the barrel, then two in the mouthpiece, maybe the two is a little unconventional, but it works for me. I've tried to make some that were drilled out with 8 steps in the barrel and only one size in the mouthpiece, and they were so high pitched, they were squeaky sounding. If it seems as if I have hijacked this thread,  I apologize, but this is a topic that interests me, as I have spent the last couple of months trying to develop some great sounding trumpet calls, so any information that I can receive and share on this subject that seems kind of taboo is greatly appreciated.

[TRKYHTR]

I am interested in this topic as well. I have been tinkering with making some trumpets here lately, & for the most part they all have the same pitch regardless of what kind of materials I use. I have been using a stepped hole in my mouthpiece going from 1/8 at the end of my trumpet body to 7/64 on the mouthpiece where it meets the trumpet body, then about half way up the mouthpiece switching over to 5/64. I can't imagine that you would want to go much smaller than that , as it seems it would start getting pretty hard to draw the air through it. Maybe try going with a longer mouthpiece and stepping the size down? Maybe I'll try that this week sometime & report back on that. What I've found to work best on the trumpets that I've made so far is using 4 steps in the barrel, then two in the mouthpiece, maybe the two is a little unconventional, but it works for me. I've tried to make some that were drilled out with 8 steps in the barrel and only one size in the mouthpiece, and they were so high pitched, they were squeaky sounding. If it seems as if I have hijacked this thread,  I apologize, but this is a topic that interests me, as I have spent the last couple of months trying to develop some great sounding trumpet calls, so any information that I can receive and share on this subject that seems kind of taboo is greatly appreciated.

The hole in my mouthpiece is .098" and my mouthpiece is 3 1/2" long. If I use a .090 or .09375 my sound gets high pitch. It does kee kee real good but too high pitch for me to yelp with.

TRKYHTR