Herco Eb mouthpiece

[TheHatTuba]

I have a mouthpiece made by Herco. It says Herco Professional and Eb on the side. The shank is small (old eb/bass bone size). The odd thing is that the cup is nearly as deep as my Baer CC. This results in pretty odd intonation on my small eb. What was this mouthpiece made for? I thought the mouthpieces made for monster eb's and other eb's were very small.

[cjk]

Those Herco mpcs. were made in the '60's - '70's.

btw. If someone offers you $7.65 for it, you should probably take it.

' corrected your typo.

[iiipopes]

Wait -- some of those Herco mouthpieces were Rhodium plated. If you can scrape it off, you can get more than that for the scrap metal shavings. I've played one of the BBb versions. Think Bach 18 with a flat rim the width of a 24AW. Sounded pretty good, but I didn't like the feel. If the Eb is like the BBb I played, it has a separate shank soldered onto the bowl.

[opus37]

I have one of those that I used on my Martin (i is what came with the horn. It's deep and cone shaped and sounds rather good on that horn. It lost most of the plating on the rim, so its not much fun to play.