Re: OH NO!! Not another mouthpiece survey!


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Posted by js on March 21, 2002 at 09:42:24:

In Reply to: OH NO!! Not another mouthpiece survey! posted by switcher on March 21, 2002 at 09:24:51:

All of those mouthpieces will play a tuba, and bigger tubas seem to be accepting of far more different styles and sizes of mouthpieces.

If you were interested in addressing "the problem" involved with these big Conn tubas (an almost unplayably-flat bottom-of-the-staff F), you might try out a shallow cup mouthpiece (Schilke 69C4, etc.). The tuba will still sound big a round (Heck, it "can't help it".) and the shallow cup might give you the "torque" to lip the F and E up close to pitch.

- just one idea...


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