Has anyone tried the new Sturm & Drang tuba and euphonium mouthpieces?
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Re: Has anyone tried the new Sturm & Drang tuba and euphonium mouthpieces?
Hmmm, when I (as a German) see the optics (English style lettering and a nazi rune looking blitz) of this "brand name" which are veeery opposite to what Sturm&Drang describes originally (the romantic period in the early 19th century!) I would never consider this touching my lips
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Re: Has anyone tried the new Sturm & Drang tuba and euphonium mouthpieces?
I am quite happy with my Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics 5A and see no reason to switch. It is only on such a mouthpiece that one can formulate a consistent musical theory and achieve it in practice. Other mouthpieces produce only an embarrassing conglomeration of impotence, futility, inconsistency and superficiality. 
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Re: Has anyone tried the new Sturm & Drang tuba and euphonium mouthpieces?
Your vocabulary reminds me of Shaun Jones' hilarious lawyer commercial...MikeS wrote: Sun Mar 01, 2026 10:35 am I am quite happy with my Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics 5A and see no reason to switch. It is only on such a mouthpiece that one can formulate a consistent musical theory and achieve it in practice. Other mouthpieces produce only an embarrassing conglomeration of impotence, futility, inconsistency and superficiality.
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Re: Has anyone tried the new Sturm & Drang tuba and euphonium mouthpieces?
Only for playing Wagner.
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Re: Has anyone tried the new Sturm & Drang tuba and euphonium mouthpieces?
Or maybe Beethoven's 5th
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Re: Has anyone tried the new Sturm & Drang tuba and euphonium mouthpieces?
I was asked to cover the contrabassoon part in that Symphony once in a per service orchestra. I started wood shedding it. It's challenging as hell. I started getting some of the really hard licks close to up to tempo and then I got a email saying they found a contrabassoonist.
I was relieved.