Many of you are familiar with our (still in production) 3-piece modular stainless steel mouthpieces, but here are some of our new models, which are only offered in silver plated brass.
The models currently available in silver-plated BRASS are
- OG Ultimate
- Sellmansberg II
- Shallowberger
- Symphony (threaded for rims only)
OG Ultimate (OG referencing subtle changes in our long-offered "Orchestra Grand" stainless steel mouthpiece) is a "regular deep" cup mouthpiece (deep, but not extra deep) which does a remarkable job of clarifying the resonance of 6/4 size contrabass instruments, as well as offering clear/defined sound with 4/4 and 5/4 size contrabass instruments.
The rim is (my personal favorite) the #2 profile with a 32.9mm opening (actually, slightly thinned down on the outside vertical side - to assist those of us who have noses closer to our lips in executing the extreme low range).
The throat size and the back-bore are slightly conservative, but not small. The successfully-achieved goal is to offer the player a rich and well-projecting resonance (including with very large and even very large bore instruments) without having to wear themselves out.
Sellmansberg II, with the name obviously being a play on words, offers a widely popular medium-deep Helleberg-style cup (II, 30H, et al) but - while retaining that cup depth and contour - altering the rim (again #2 profile, 32.9mm cup opening), throat and back-bore to something that (frankly) I personally find more favorable. I've found that this cup shape seems to offer a slightly higher overall pitch level than with some other styles of cups, whereby some models of contrabass tubas - which nearly tend towards being "flat-natured" - are able to be played at A=440 and higher, without having to cut the instrument.
- Shallowberger with yet another "dad-joke" name, is a tuba-dimensioned mouthpiece (this batch: standard shank) with a significantly shallower cup depth, approximately a bass-trombone-sized throat diameter, and a conservative back-bore which defines it as an ideal F cimbasso mouthpiece, a good F tuba mouthpiece for a particular orchestral selection which demands consistent high-range playing (some early orchestral excerpts which have been passed over to the tuba), as well as a great mouthpiece for small bass tubas (such as smaller F tubas, as well as those 5/8" bore pre-WWII-manufactured E-flat tubas) etc.
Symphony - We actually have had (for quite a while) a threaded-for-rims-ONLY silver-plated brass version of our biggest seller, the Symphony cup and back-bore.
(ie. requires the purchase of a rim) This mouthpiece is slightly "prettier-sounding" than the OG Ultimate, but - with the really large instruments or really "bass-resonant" instruments, the OG might be a better choice. These feature a hybrid shank size which is just about halfway between "standard" and "euro" (which seats and gaps nicely in many of the B&S-made larger instruments' receivers).
Shallowberger can be special ordered in small ("English" aka bass trombone shank) and OG Ultimate can be special ordered in euro shank.
We also ran off several threaded-for-rims OG Ultimate mouthpieces (which accept ANY of our own stainless steel rims). Even though these cost us the same to produce as the complete one-piece mouthpieces, we drop the price on these by $25, in order to help consumers cover the cost of a necessary rim.
This time, we only ran off STANDARD shank mouthpieces, as the last run's euro and small shank versions (candidly) sold slower. Further, we've found that many modern-day euro shank receivers (vs. "genuine" euro shank receivers, such as the old Holton 3XX receivers) are merely elongated versions of standard shank receivers (whereby standard shank mouthpieces seat with an appropriate so-called "gap", yet those receivers are extended forward in length - in order to cover more of a euro-shank mouthpipe (which ends up leaving a longer "gap").
Thanks for reading all of this.
The one-piece brass are $175 plus postage
The threaded-for-rims brass are $150 plus postage.
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