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I've seen several of these pop up recently as brand new or like new - not just for tuba. They appear to be stainless steel one-piece mouthpieces which is not something Houser did when they were making this line. I get the feeling someone is producing these, but I can't find anything online except Crazy Mamma Murphy. Has anyone seen or heard anything about these recently?

The first two iterations were both two piece. I have a grenade style LM-7 and a few other Loud two piece mouthpieces. I believe the more modern post-Houser SS mouthpieces were in fact just one piece.

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a brand new LM-10 recently hit eBay, and my hunch is Mamma Murphy is the seller - probably cleaning out old inventory. Hard to say and that's just a guess, but, there they are.

That's really cool, and I'm extremely tempted, but I'm honestly really loathe to give this histrionic woman $169 + shipping out of principle. She's literally just taken an extremely useful product and made it impossible to get out of spite. Are there any imitation models, or 3d-printer schematics so I could print my own?

Before you reconsider spending that much money and/or 3-D "print" one, my experience with the original LOUD LM-7 when it was a "new" mouthpiece years ago was that it was a very efficient mouthpiece, had good consistency and response top to bottom, but it slotted really, really, tight, requiring a player to "ride throttle" on especially a #1 valve slide, depending on the instrument. I recommend it for a well-intonating tuba, and do not on a tuba that has less than stellar intonation or valve slide issues (inaccessibility, range of adjustment, etc.)

Ah, as in, adjust the main slide while playing because the pitch "slots" too precisely and can't be adjusted with embouchure?

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