GW Mouthpieces
Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2005 10:13 pm
Hi All,
Just wanted to share what has been happening in the past 3 weeks. I've been working on a new mouthpiece with Ivan and Bob at GW Mouthpieces for the past 3 weeks. In this short amount of time, we've come up with what I consider the best mouthpiece that I've ever played on. This is MUCH different than what GW has been producing in the past. This is a light weight Stainless piece the has incredible centering power from top to bottom and a sound like I've never heard before. The stainless allows the player to play at extreme loud dynamics without the sound breaking up and because of the design of the piece and the alloy, the bore can be slightly smaller to allow for the extreme softs too. They've also used one of my all time favorite rims, the Miraphone C4. It has a great comfortable feel that I can play on all day yet has a relatively sharp bite to make the articulation clean as a whistle. I've had great luck with this piece in my Gronitz as well as my 1291's. Ivan and Bob have been great to work with. They are folks that really listen to what I need in a mouthpiece, and their service has been the fastest I've seen. We will be creating a new F tuba piece to go along with the new C tuba piece some time this month.
From what I've been told the C tuba piece will go into production probably this month.
I don't know if Ivan has put any pics on their site, but it's worth checking out.
http://www.gwmouthpieces.com
You can check out what these sound like on the NY Phil web site. Go to attend concerts then broadcasts, then click on realplayer on the concert that you want to hear.
good luck,
Alan Baer
Just wanted to share what has been happening in the past 3 weeks. I've been working on a new mouthpiece with Ivan and Bob at GW Mouthpieces for the past 3 weeks. In this short amount of time, we've come up with what I consider the best mouthpiece that I've ever played on. This is MUCH different than what GW has been producing in the past. This is a light weight Stainless piece the has incredible centering power from top to bottom and a sound like I've never heard before. The stainless allows the player to play at extreme loud dynamics without the sound breaking up and because of the design of the piece and the alloy, the bore can be slightly smaller to allow for the extreme softs too. They've also used one of my all time favorite rims, the Miraphone C4. It has a great comfortable feel that I can play on all day yet has a relatively sharp bite to make the articulation clean as a whistle. I've had great luck with this piece in my Gronitz as well as my 1291's. Ivan and Bob have been great to work with. They are folks that really listen to what I need in a mouthpiece, and their service has been the fastest I've seen. We will be creating a new F tuba piece to go along with the new C tuba piece some time this month.
From what I've been told the C tuba piece will go into production probably this month.
I don't know if Ivan has put any pics on their site, but it's worth checking out.
http://www.gwmouthpieces.com
You can check out what these sound like on the NY Phil web site. Go to attend concerts then broadcasts, then click on realplayer on the concert that you want to hear.
good luck,
Alan Baer
basically everything and the kitchen sink!!!) The mouthpiece is a combination of ideas. Take a look, Tubenet enthusiasts will be the first in the tuba community to see the new mouthpiece. 
