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I've read numerous examples of folks trying to play bass trombone with their small tuba mouthpiece. Anyone ever dared to try the reverse?

I have heard of a bass trombone player who doubled on BBb tuba and played everything on a Bach 1 1/2G mouthpiece. And the studio had to pay another player to get the tuba parts overdubbed.

euphdude wrote:I've read numerous examples of folks trying to play bass trombone with their small tuba mouthpiece. Anyone ever dared to try the reverse?

Yes, and I got the results I wished for...which was some laughing at the sounds coming out of my bell....

I've used my PT-88 on bass trombone with rather good results. As for the reverse, even my largest bass trombone mouthpiece (a Griego .25) would sound horrible in any tuba and likely wouldn't seal very well at all without some layers of tape or something around the shank. Terrible idea.

I think he means an eb or f tuba not a contrabass. ive heard of people using contrabass bone mps on small vintage eb's.

TheHatTuba wrote:I think he means an eb or f tuba not a contrabass. ive heard of people using contrabass bone mps on small vintage eb's.

I know. That's why I specified "in any tuba."

Perhaps a contrabass trombone mouthpiece would work ok. But that's not what the OP asked. My Griego is as big of a bass trombone mouthpiece that is made and it would sound horrible in a tuba receiver.

TheHatTuba wrote:I think he means an eb or f tuba not a contrabass. ive heard of people using contrabass bone mps on small vintage eb's.

That's because some of those old horns have receivers that cannot take an actual tuba mouthpiece.

Contrabone mps work fine in bass tubas and great in bass trombones. There's not a big difference between very large bass trombone and average contra mps. I've also read of some using tenor tuba mps in bass tubas to good effect.