I have a Josef Klier 5A, so I took a few minutes to A/B with a Conn 7B.

The 5A is nominally 32mm with a fairly normally rounded rim, to the 7B's 31.5 flatter rim.

I have not been practicing. The 7B was a hell of a lot easier to play on my big BBb tuba. Notes came out more or less where they were ...

Can't beat a good 7B.

The condensation piles up on the inside, the spit on the outside.

That the measurable dimensions could vary some, is no great surprise. But the design spec that I've read the most about is the rim. How rounded, how sharp the bite. Paul Sidey's SSH was as I recall modeled after the flattest rim, which was from fairly early in the era but don't recall exactly.

There's a good chance the rim comes from the blank, not the copy, so that would be something to ask about. Personally, I don't much like the looks of that rim.

Could be, or maybe the default is that sort of elephantine thing to the right of the profile drawing. If that's it, I can't imagine any problem fitting the Doctor in there. Other than the problem of paying for it, of course.

Vennture Mouthpieces will copy a mouthpiece for ca. $300. Inside copy. If you want to copy the outside profile, it's significantly more, and without knowing what their tuba blank looks like and where the throat is on that Wessex Dr Young, I wouldn't bet my life that it would be a comfortable fit ...

I've had that soft palate failure, when playing bass clarinet when I wasn't used to it. That's about as far as you could get from playing the tuba ... maybe oboe or something. You must really be unloading on that tuba mouthpiece.

I'd sure go for one of those mouthpieces. I am very fond of the Conn ...

I still have it.


Does it play up to pitch, compared to what you usually play?


When he played on the clear acrylic version of his invention


Thinking about MartinMan 's find, it occurred to me that the interesting old mouthpieces of yesteryear don't need to be lost to us. Not that I know ...

They were also playing to half empty halls for their concerts... even the Tanglewood residency was losing money.. They were running operational deficits that were tapping into the endowment.


From the article:
Indeed, they point out that much of the nontraditional programming that Smith, and ...

Or yet another episode of the corporatization of everything. We had to destroy BSO to save it. We had many meetings and workshops so that everyone's voice could be heard - but ignored, of course, because we have made our plans. Listen to our bold, innovative plans to turn off anyone who used to be ...

My Schilke HII goes in about 1/3 the way down the shank and a Bach 12 about the same. Based on everything I read now the 88S should be about that length.


Yes - that is, according to our experts and Perantucci's own pamphlet , 88S is American shank, like Bach. [edit] Oops, I forgot about the ...

Since no one seems interested in answering your question, here's Robb Steward on a replacement bell rim. Complete replacement, and I imagine that trimming off the old rim would be a large part of the job. Bell Rim Replacement

I have actually played electric bass in public, but I'm admittedly fairly awful at it for reasons that have little to do with tone.

That said, if I could coax a tone from an electric bass that came anywhere near Jack Casady's, I guess I'd be inclined to leave all my other instruments on the shelf ...

Also ... I've seen guys dissatisfied with their sousaphones for issues that no one else perceived, because the sousaphone player is in the worst place to hear what's going on.

I've wondered whether the single thing that separates a sousaphone acoustically from its other tuba relatives, is the ...

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So thermal cycling creates interfacial stresses.


It's worth asking them about this joint, if anyone's thinking about dropping $10K on one. (I'm not, but I'm not a sousaphone playing pro.) In this image from their facebook page, I can convince myself that they have accounted for it with a sort ...

Even guys on bell-front baritones can sound cool.


And they might have done it just for yucks, but more likely the internal profile of those instruments, or something, makes them better for that particular piece. Slurs, hard blowing, etc. Like the top Chicago York copy might be a suboptimal tuba ...

My favorite brass ensemble video Concert de François Thuillier Elephant Tuba Horde, le 27 août 2016 aux Rendez-Vous de L'Erdre , includes a bell front baritone quartet at 42:56. They use them for a meaty, overdriven sound, that probably wouldn't have been quite the same with the bass saxhorns they ...

One thing that I can say about Lilypond, it's transparent. Most alternatives are WSIWYG - what you see, is what you get.

With Lilypond, no, you don't see the output musical notation while you're working on it. But you do see what you did. A graphical editor can be a little ambiguous about that ...