rim feedback

[imperialbari]

You may double the number of options by providing versions with indentations for the nose.

Klaus

[Wyvern]

So what is the smaller cup size? Does it have more rounded inner edge? Looks like may be from pictures

[Peach]

Rather than introduce another rim profile to offer a smaller cup opening, I'd rather see smaller versions of your two existing (very good) options. Adding another style could end up with folks requesting that contour in a different I.D.!

I'd love to see versions of both 'standard' rims in 32, 32.5, & 33mm personally.

You'd know better than anyone: Do folks complain about the current rim styles? I'd have thought rounded and flatish ought to suit most...

FWIW, I've been using my Solo #2 with a Loud 32mm rim (LM15) and it's great for me as a bass tuba piece.

MP

[cjk]

I'm with Malcolm. A slightly smaller #2 would be nice. Just pull the whole thing (inner and out diameters) in 0.5 mm. Keep the rim width the same. A wide rim defeats the purpose of the smaller inner to me.

I agree with Malcolm and LJV.



I would just make a #2 style rim with a 32.6 inner dimension ("close enough" to a Helleberg or Laskey 30 inner dimension), but the width and contour of the rim the same as the #2. You could call it a #1.6.

The #2 rim contour is unintentionally VERY similar to old Marzan rims. So the #2 (much like the old Marzans) is one of the most comfortable rims ever.

[Wyvern]

I've recently been playing a much larger tuba.

2165?

[iiipopes]

Sounds like some cross-marketing with the LOUD rims is in order, for example the LM7 rim is a good rim in the @32.6 mm range.

[MaryAnn]

What Klaus said; even though my upper lip is on the long side, large mouthpieces still bonk my nose. There are large people who do not have long upper lips who cannot play a large mouthpiece for the same reason. It gets painful at times, and too much lower lip produces a bad sound for a particular type of embouchure (Roger Lewis, in one of his very helpful posts about sound and technique, noted that someone who is using too much lower lip will get a nasal sound.)

MA

PS: Personally, I'm waiting for the KellyBloke.

[iiipopes]

Sounds like some cross-marketing with the LOUD rims is in order, for example the LM7 rim is a good rim in the @32.6 mm range.

Not-at-all. I am specifically avoiding any "borrowing" of rim contours, PARTICULARLY BECAUSE Houser makes mouthpieces for both Joe Murphy and myself.

Further, no one who has emailed me has asked that I adapt an "LM-7 style" rim to these mouthpieces.

Finally, the Loud rims and Sellmansberger rims are not compatible. It would require complete re-tooling anyway to "steal" Joe Murphy's designs for use with my underparts.

I stand corrected and apologize. I thought the threading was the same.

[T. J. Ricer]

...but I'm certainly not so unsympathetic as to not be able to imagine that a "new" little piece of face playing the tuba may make one feel a bit "exposed"...

bloke "3% more lip to tighten / 3% more air to produce...whatever...' can be done......but my current leaning is to offer a #1 and a #2 with a 32.3mm cup diameter (perhaps a #1A and a #2A), and call it a day."

This sounds perfect, Joe. I love your MPs for just about everything, but sustained high playing (like the second movement of the Barbara York Concerto) does make me feel a bit hung out to dry with the wide openings. Maybe it's just my own personal hang-up, but I think that tiny "pulling in" would be ideal, even if it is just a psycho-somatic change. (Voice in my head: "This one's smaller, I'm invincible!" )

thanks for allowing us to influence further development of your already great product!

be well,
T. J.