Mysterious mouthpiece

[jondrowjf@gmail.com]

Bought a Vincent Bach Corp 5 mouthpiece from ebay. It was advertised as a cornet mouthpiece. It does fit the receivers on my cornet. The cup of this mouthpiece is huge and the shank is a little shorter than my long shank cornet mouthpiece.
Very deep low sound like a goose call.
My guess is a trombone mouthpiece. What type of mouthpiece is it?
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Denis Wick 4 W classic gold short shank mouthpiece
Getzen 4B short shank mouthpiece
Jupiter 9e short shank mouthpiece

[huntman10]

Sounds like it may be the old style mellophone mouthpiece. The modern mellophones almost always use a trumpet shank, and can be played with trumpet mouthpieces but I prefer the tone of the tenor horn mouthpiece. The old style mellophones had a shank somewhere between a modern cornet and trumpet, and had a cup larger than any trumpet or cornet, but smaller than a tenor trombone cup. I have gotten several of these in odd lots of music equipment, the 5 cup is the most common I have seen, and the proportions look like a cornet piece, but are larger.
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huntman10
Collector/Player of Fine (and not so fine) Brass Instruments including
Various Strads, Yammies, Al Hirt Courtois, Schilkes,
Selmer 25, Getzen Eternas, Kanstuls (920 Pic, CG)
Martin Custom Large Bore, Lots Olds!, Conns, etc.

[jondrowjf@gmail.com]

Thanks for the information about it being an old style mellophone mouthpiece. Have played tenor sax in the past, the sound of mouthpiece wasn't anything I recognized. Next week I will list the mouthpiece on ebay.
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Jupiter 520 M shepherds
Denis Wick 4 W classic gold short shank mouthpiece
Getzen 4B short shank mouthpiece
Jupiter 9e short shank mouthpiece