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Hello everyone

What do you think about the mouthpieces for tuba in F?
Big or small mouthiece mouthpiece? What?

Regards to all ...

Medium/medium shallow cup, bowled shape, wide diameter round(ish) rim.

I bought a MP for myself three days ago.

After I tried pretty much entire collection of Perantuccis, I stayed with PT-65S. Funny thing it that out of about 4 PT-65s, each played differently, and the "S" one played just right for me.

The best answer would be taking the horn, teacher (or more of them) and march into nearest shop that has mouthpieces and try all that might fit the needs, and then decide.

Being far less experienced than most of tubenet members, I think the answer to any mouthpiece question is that it is highly individual...

Few people use an F exclusively for things like the Berlioz Requiem and Bydlo, but try to use it for other circumstances (brass quintet, ballet/opera), and other cases where range requirements are very moderate. Because of that, I prefer a mouthpiece either the same size as for a CC, or very slightly smaller, but with a shallower cup. I use a Laskey 30H on CC, and a Laskey 30F on F. The cup diameter is the same, but the cup is shallower. As an alternative, I have a Laskey 28F, but seldom use it.

Many years ago I used a distinctly smaller cup on F (a Mirafone), and found that it had a negative impact on sound below 4th line F. At the time I considered the F more of a specialty instrument than I do now.

With age comes wisdom.