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Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:04 pm
by Rommel72
I had one of these. I never used it. It was way too big for me. So, I sold it.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:05 am
by drewfus
That was the mp that a poor little 9 year old girl was trying to play a sousy on in a friend of mine's band class. I tried it last week in my YBB-321, it wore me out.
Thanks to the Big Ben here she has a Kelly 25 and is doing great with it.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:52 am
by Bandmaster
I have a Holton Revelation 52 mouthpiece and it dwarfs my G&W Bayamo. It's not just that its deep, the back bore is down right huge! It definately makes your horn sound dark....
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:13 am
by Steve Marcus
I took my huge Holton Galaxy mpc to my early lessons with Rex Martin. At one point I informed him that I intended to have it replated. "Don't you dare!" he replied. "Go buy yourself a decent mouthpiece!"
Fortuitous timing--it was just when Scott Laskey had begun making his own mouthpieces but had not yet established a retail network. So I went to his own shop. Scott himself listened to me play with several of his 30H's and helped me pick the one that sounded best.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:42 pm
by MikeMason
I bought an old holton mp from Lee Stofer that is just marked"collegiate".it's pretty big but with a pretty small backbore.Don't really use it,but it actually works pretty well.
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:55 pm
by bttmbow
I have TWO 30Hs (E shank) that I love!
I also have a great A shank one that I can use an adapter on, if for some reason I forget my regular one.
Other than that...
Holton 7 = Revelation 52
Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:22 pm
by AndyL
I have a Holton 7 and Holton Revelation 52 mouthpiece.
They are identical except for the name stamped on the side.
I read somewhere that Holton used the "Revelation" name on student line products.
Re: Holton 7 = Revelation 52
Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:15 pm
by Rick Denney
AndyL wrote:I read somewhere that Holton used the "Revelation" name on student line products.
Even the BB-345 might have been considered a student instrument. The one I own spent most of its life at a school.
My understanding is that the Revelation 52 was the mouthpieces supplied with the 345. In my opinion, it's entirely wrong. The Holton is big and needs an anti-woof mouthiece, and the 52 is a woof-magnifier. A Reynolds Dr. Young would be unhearable on a 345--probably subsonic. But a 345 sounds like a leaky old sousaphone with the 52, and maybe that's the sound they were after.
I use a PT-48. It's not small, but it's a little shallower with a bit more cup shape. It excites a whole range of harmonics and gives the horn a lively, non-woofy sound.
Rick "who keeps the 52 for historical interest only" Denney