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I'm curious as to what differences in mouthpieces you would use, if any, with a British Baritone Horn (saxhorn), versus the euphonium. It seems that the popular Schilke 51D for euphonium would be inappropriate for a baritone horn. I plan on picking up a baritone horn one day and wonder what new equipment would be required.

It seems like a Bach 6.5 AL would work well on a baritone horn, I recall starting on a 12C on the King baritone/euphonium I started on in 7th grade.

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Most euphonium players will use a small shank mouthpiece similar to a tenor trombone sized mouthpiece. The change in timbre of the horn requires something smaller - more compact to get the true nature of the sound across.

You could use a 6.5AL, 12C, something along that line. If you really want a "baritone" mouthpiece, then you could go w/ a 6BS, 7BS Wick, or the Steve Mead line of baritone mouthpieces - SM4B, SM6B.

- Pat Stuckemeyer

To echo a few of the other posts...I like the Wick 5BS (or 6BS if you are staying sky high)

Incredible difference in the tone that comes out of the horn.

I'd imagine that you'd want something significantly shallower than a euphonium mouthpiece to match the tubular bore. I'm not sure how bright they're supposed to be.

I do play a Conn 90G, which is essentially a tubular bore euphonium, almost a British baritone, and it works best with a 6.5 A (not AL) or a Schilke 51B. Anything deeper makes it sound like a plain old euphonium.

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cheburashka wrote: I do play a Conn 90G, which is essentially a tubular bore euphonium, almost a British baritone, and it works best with a 6.5 A (not AL) or a Schilke 51B. Anything deeper makes it sound like a plain old euphonium.

The Conn 90G (I certainly would want one, if the price was righth) is a valved and curled version of the 8H symphonic slide trombone. It is nothing like a British baritone, which has a different leadpipe, a narrower bore (0.516 or 0.519), and which has its conical expansion starting much earlier. Furthermore the baritone bell volume is much larger, even larger than a bass trombone, if you test how mutes fit.

If you want a big mellow and carrying, but still not euphonium-like, sound, I would suggest the DW4AY, which is, what I use myself on the old (1967) sturdily built B&H Imperial. Some players also get good results from the DW4BS. Both suggested mouthpieces take strong embouchures.

V. Bach #3 with an expanded backbore also has worked well for me.

Klaus

Ouch! That 90G is at $655.00 now, with a repaired bell throat and five days left on the auction.

Mine was miscategorized and mislabeled.


$35.00

It's a nice horn, but not a $655.00 horn.