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Many of us try different mouthpieces on our tubas on an experimental basis to discover what sounds, feels, or responds best.

Once you have settled upon your most effective "tools of the trade," how many different mouthpieces do you use for one tuba?

In other words, if you use one mouthpiece for your F tuba and a different mouthpiece for your CC, your answer to the poll would be "one."

I have two that I play with on my f tuba, but for my semi-trained, unprofessional ear, I can't tell the difference. Some days one feels good to use, some days the other feels better. I don't know....

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On my Willson CC I play a MF3 and an MF4. The MF3 is so big and my horn is so big; to make my horn work for CC solo lit., brass quintet, or high orch. parts I play the MF4. I also play the MF4 on F and that is the only mouthpiece I use on F tuba.

PT 50+ on the Cerveny ACB 601

PT 64 on the PT-10

Schilke 60 on the Edwards Bass Bone

My former PT 50 has been retired to the sousaphone....may she play crass forever.......


Allen

I too have only one mouthpiece per tuba, with the exception of my plastic marching mouthpiece!!!!! Thanks Kelly Mouthpieces!



Simon McCauley

i don't know if you could consider this as two different mouthpieces, but on my PT-4P, i use a PT50+ in everything but brass quintet where i just use a PT-50. the guys were complaining that i was too loud so i had to downscale for them after my request for them to play louder failed.

LV wrote:I usually like to have a main mpc with a horn and then have one that I can peel paint with, lay waste to the violins, scare the oboe, etc. if necessary. The second mpc is obviously used very sparingly.

FWIW

So which one is the second mouthpiece?


For me, I've begun using whichever one has a sound that matches the majority of the rest of my section. We're trying to produce a more cohesive single-instrument sound, and it does no good for the whole if I sound noticeably brighter or darker than the others.