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A fun exercise is to get a brass mouthpiece and some straight tubing on the order of a meter and try to play it. Then fashion a bell (or use a medium sized funnel) on the end and play again. Check the ease of playing and the overtone structure of each setup and compare. It's amazing what the flared bell does.
But of course superb players can play on anything. Dennis Brain played a
Mozart concerto on a green garden hose. He used a mouthpiece, but I don't
recall whether he had an improvised bell. There may be a picture of him
doing it! He even trilled at the end.
John M. Clement
Houston, TX