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UMI/Conn 1792-2.

http://www.giardinelli.com/product/Conn ... sku=462260

A rather wide rim like the Wick. Diameter a little less than Wick 2 but bigger than Wick 3. I estimate cup depth is medium, so tone is not dark; you can get good harmonic content. On a B-Flat horn, the 124 E-Flat still comes out moderately well, but it doesn't have the ballsy, fundamental tone one gets with a big mouthpiece.

I have Wick 1,2,3XL and Wick 3SL. Don't have 2SL. So don't know how cup depth or tone compares.

Mike Finn MF4 is good for Eb. I prefer the Wick 3 what little I play Eb.

No real direct answers so far, possibly none of us really know the 2SL well enough to comment.

It's shallow, right? There a lot of relatively shallow mouthpieces. Most of the Marcinkiewicz line is available in several depths, Laskey has an F series. Schilke 62 is smaller and shallow. I loved a Dillon F1 on one Eb tuba but can't stand it on the other, where a Conn 2 or 7B seem to be the best bets so far (but the latter two are not shallow.)

According to the Denis Wick mouthpiece pdf flyer, the 2SL is the same cup diameter, rim, throat and backbore as the 2L, but the S is for shallower cup, designed for a soloist.

iiipopes wrote:According to the Denis Wick mouthpiece pdf flyer, the 2SL is the same cup diameter, rim, throat and backbore as the 2L, but the S is for shallower cup, designed for a soloist.

And according to Denis Wick, his 2L is a "funnel-shaped Helleberg type" ... but if you actually look at it, or play it, obviously that's a matter of degree. What about the 2SL? Hard to say without seeing one, whatever the PDF may claim.

I like the way Mike Finn deals with it: saw one in half, so you can see the contours of rim, cup, throat etc. Picture's worth a thousand words.