Re: Adjustable gap receivers
Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2014 1:01 pm
Matt Walters design... Allows to adjust the gap in the receiver/leadpipe to find your 'sweetspot--HIGHLY recommended!!!! Any horn with one plays better IMHO...
Mark
Mark
I really don't know what it is, but I'm assuming it's a replacement because Meinl Weston horns of this vintage ( I think) have the serial number stamped on it; mine has no such stamp.bloke wrote:If my tuba were one that the receiver and mouthpipe are one-and-the-same (with an "overpart" that really is not a "receiver"), I would be quite hesitant to chop it off.
In the case where there is no gap - receiver is just the end of the leadpipe, for example - would that call for yet another different mouthpiece backbore?bloke wrote:It allows the small-end of your mouthpiece to be closer-to or farther-away-from the choke-point in the venturi created by a receiver and a mouthpiece. (With most *tuba* receivers/mouthpipes, there really is no "gap" per se...not even with most solder-on receivers.)
My experience is that this affects "feel" more than "sound", but others will insist that I am wrong about this. Pulling the mouthpiece back away from the choke point (in effect) lengthens the back-bore of a mouthpiece and setting the mouthpiece closer to the choke point (again: in effect) shortens the back-bore of a mouthpiece.