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

Klaus

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

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

LJV wrote: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.

bloke wrote:I've recently been playing a much larger tuba.

2165?

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.

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.

bloke wrote:

iiipopes wrote: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.

bloke wrote: ...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.