Mouthpieces...whats it all about???

[Heavy_Metal]

What brands are considered Deep Marty?? I'm using a perantuci 50 and a R&S tu11 which right now the R&S sounds best to me.

R&S TUH maybe? I am not familiar with the R&S line, but don't see anything elsewhere about a TU11, just TUH and TUHH. Helleberg copies, presumably of the Conn 120S, which would imply they're moderately deep, but that's a pile of guessing.

R&S went out of business recently, they were somehow affiliated with Jet-Tone. The TUHH and TUHH-II mouthpieces are Helleberg-type wIth extra mass, like the Bach MegaTones but heavier. This makes them sound darker.

From what I've read, the TUHH is based on the Conn Helleberg design- not sure which model. The TUHH-II is based on the Schilke Helleberg, with a slightly shallower cup and smaller throat than the TUHH.

[TubaRay]

It's like girls. (Or boys, if you're a girl, or ... whatever.) There are half a billion people in North America, and narrowing it down to just women of a suitable age, I reckon that checking them out 1 second each for 8 hours straight every day, would take a couple years. At some point, as important as the differences may be, you have to figure that they aren't that important.

I'm guessing the girls won't be happy to hear that anything about them isn't "that important."

[Donn]

I don't think they were going to like being rounded up for the 1-second-average interviews either. I guess you can't win.

[Heavy_Metal]

Speaking of heavier mouthpieces, I see the Wedge people now offer a "Heavy New York" model- scroll down:

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