bloke keeps messing around with more mouthpiece cup shapes
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Re: bloke keeps messing around with more mouthpiece cup shapes
I'd buy one. Your Sellmansberg II basically replaced everything else for me so I'd be interested to try whatever else you make in silver-plated brass (because I continue to be one of those annoying people who believes that I sound better on a brass MP!)
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Re: bloke keeps messing around with more mouthpiece cup shapes
I can think of a whole bunch of far more dangerous things to believe.
I greatly appreciate your interest.
I'm trying to nail down an appointment with my buddy and his machinery, and - hey - I now have another local buddy who does quality silver plating with small-size items, so I can probably get a minimal run out fairly quickly...
(We'll see...??)
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Re: bloke keeps messing around with more mouthpiece cup shapes
Please consider me on the interested scale.
Some old Yorks, Martins, and perhaps a King rotary valved CC
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Re: bloke keeps messing around with more mouthpiece cup shapes
I may get some of these run off next Tuesday.
I don't know about getting them silver plated...
I don't know about getting them silver plated...
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Re: bloke keeps messing around with more mouthpiece cup shapes
I have a few "reference" mouthpieces around here, because I think it's important to know what some of the common mouthpieces are and how they play.
Up until today, my little collection of reference mouthpieces didn't include anything from a line of mouthpieces patronized by quite a few people. That line of mouthpieces is popular, because it features a strong (long-time highly regarded teacher/player) endorser, and they only cost around a hundred bucks.
Quite a few people email me and tell me that they own a model (ok...in code) Roman numeral "L" from that line, it doesn't quite suit them, and they're looking for something else. Up until now, I've had to shrug my shoulders (not owning a model "L"). I knew it was a large mouthpiece but that's about all I really knew.
Okay. I received a used one in the mail today and played on it for a minute or two. What is really interesting is how similar it is ("on the surface") to the one that I'm getting ready to have put in production (hopefully, in roughly two weeks at my friend's machine shop - one-piece brass, to be silver plated). Another thing that's interesting is how different they play (the "L" vs. my prototype) and how different they sound from each other.
I believe I now understand why some who own/use those sometimes look for an alternative.
Just to be clear, if (??) this one that I'm putting into production is an "alternative", I REALLY like my alternative.
at least for me:
1/ noticeably less effort
2/ more refined sound in all ranges
3/ certainly just as much quantity of sound
- blind Mrs. bloke test: same opinions re: 2/ and 3/
I could point out that the recently posted pops concert videos feature my prototype mouthpiece (when playing the tuba), but
- even though mouthpieces change the sound noticeably, I believe players and their tubas change the sound more noticeably.
- the tuba was mic'ed through a PA system.
- the recording device was nothing more than a tablet - with its own on board microphones - which was hundreds of feet away in a not particularly wonderful acoustic environment.
Up until today, my little collection of reference mouthpieces didn't include anything from a line of mouthpieces patronized by quite a few people. That line of mouthpieces is popular, because it features a strong (long-time highly regarded teacher/player) endorser, and they only cost around a hundred bucks.
Quite a few people email me and tell me that they own a model (ok...in code) Roman numeral "L" from that line, it doesn't quite suit them, and they're looking for something else. Up until now, I've had to shrug my shoulders (not owning a model "L"). I knew it was a large mouthpiece but that's about all I really knew.
Okay. I received a used one in the mail today and played on it for a minute or two. What is really interesting is how similar it is ("on the surface") to the one that I'm getting ready to have put in production (hopefully, in roughly two weeks at my friend's machine shop - one-piece brass, to be silver plated). Another thing that's interesting is how different they play (the "L" vs. my prototype) and how different they sound from each other.
I believe I now understand why some who own/use those sometimes look for an alternative.
Just to be clear, if (??) this one that I'm putting into production is an "alternative", I REALLY like my alternative.
at least for me:
1/ noticeably less effort
2/ more refined sound in all ranges
3/ certainly just as much quantity of sound
- blind Mrs. bloke test: same opinions re: 2/ and 3/
I could point out that the recently posted pops concert videos feature my prototype mouthpiece (when playing the tuba), but
- even though mouthpieces change the sound noticeably, I believe players and their tubas change the sound more noticeably.
- the tuba was mic'ed through a PA system.
- the recording device was nothing more than a tablet - with its own on board microphones - which was hundreds of feet away in a not particularly wonderful acoustic environment.