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Yeah...tell your band director you can't play because your lip got splintered. That'd be real fun.

They've only got 1 size tuba:

"Equivalence : Bach Mouthpiece"

Any AND all of them at once!?
Or do you have to guess?

I guess if you play the tuba, they don't think it matters much...

To be serious, wouldn't these be great for cold outdoor performance? I'd like for sound comparisons to be made versus plastic. I also wonder how they feel in the cold compared to the plastics.

At a price of $145 I would sure hope they don't give you splinters!

Anybody have some insight into how a wooden mouthpiece sounds/feels... compared to our regular metal pieces?

I have a vintage wooden mouthpiece, made of ebony, including the shank. To be frank, I can tell no discernable difference, save the initial coldness one feels with metal. Otherwise it seems to be a quite normal mouthpiece for it's size. The weight and material does NOT seem to affect it one way or the other... which is what the plastic mouthpiece people have always maintained. I have never tried it in the cold, for fear of causing a crack, nor have I had any reason to.

But temperature extremes would concern me with one of these mouthpieces, as they properly do clarinet, baroque flute, and recorder players!

Like WB said I wouldnt use one of these outside for the same reason clarinets dont play wooden clarinets outdoors, they crack. with the outside of it being cold and trying to contract and the inside being warm and wanting to expand. getting a splinter in your lip, sounds like something those guys from jacka$$ would do on purpose

Favorite Team: Zidane, Dagger, Eiko, Quina

disappointed... I always wanted to smack Zidane in that game... my second least favorite FF game (FFX-2 is worse though).

windshieldbug wrote:I have never tried it in the cold, for fear of causing a crack, nor have I had any reason to.

But temperature extremes would concern me with one of these mouthpieces, as they properly do clarinet, baroque flute, and recorder players!

TUBAMUSICIAN87 wrote:Like WB said I wouldnt use one of these outside for the same reason clarinets dont play wooden clarinets outdoors, they crack. with the outside of it being cold and trying to contract and the inside being warm and wanting to expand.

Good point!

my second least favorite FF game

Nope. IX is a good one. VIII was the dud. X-2 was a bit tedious.

In order (subject somewhat to chage according to my mood):
---- The King
- FF VII (still the champ)
---- Tier I
- Skies of Arcadia (originally Dreamcast, redone for Gamecube. good game. shame it was so poorly marketed)
- FF IX and Chrono Cross (Chrono Cross gets best soundtrack of all time vote.)
- FF Tactics (biggest weakness is the design strongly favors repetitive use of accumulate)
- Star Ocean 2nd Story (old one for PS1. graphics that were outdated at the time of its release caused it to fail commercially. it was "rediscovered" by RPG gamers. main design flaw is the extreme advantage given to using a healer who can wear bloody armor -- Opera (preferred) or Noel.)
---- Tier 2
- FF X (some parts overly tedious. And yes, I did whip all the monsters in the fighting area.)
---- Tier 3
- Parasite Eve (Normal part of game is pretty good, but Chrysler Building tedious beyond all reason.)
---- Tier 4
- X-2 (passably OK, but rather tedious.)
- FF VIII (Bad design. obviously not well thought out or planned.)
- Star Ocean (for PS2. a lot of good ideas that were way overdone and run into the ground all the way to China. Well over 5,000 battles to build up to whipping Freya. Dungeon maps sprawled all over hell and half of Georgia. Item creation ridiculously repetitive try and try again. Leveling up as slow as Christmas. Use Nell and Flying Guillotine to keep your triple EXP bonus from getting broken.)

Working on XII now. We'll see. Looks Ok so far. Some stuff might be a little overdone.

Probably some games I left out.

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- FF VII (still the champ)

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agreed. the graphics may not stand up to tody's standards, but man, is it fun.

I forgot Jade Empire (Xbox). Tier 1, I'd say. My previous signature was "Radiant Jen Zi using Leaping Tiger". If you have Xbox, get it. (After you've burned out on Halo.)

For the uninitiated in the genre of video games known as Role Playing Games (RPG), these things can go on for anywhere from 30 to over 200 hours. The great thing about them is that you no longer depend on piss poor commercial TV programming. You make and watch your own TV.

Egads! Another Tubenet thread gone completely off track.

BENTERFA Tuba Mouthpiece in Ebony wood - Tuba TU - Bach - in two pieces - unscrewable shank

I know it was already mentioned, but was that a 24AW, an 18, a 2 (very large), or a 30E (peashooter sized)?

Didn't this come up about, oh, 5 years ago on Tubenet? IIRC, there was someone selling a bunch of Benterfas on eBay.

Seems I remember that nobody was impressed.

Kanstul has a line of wooden trumpet mouthpieces and doubtless would turn out some wooden ones, given the right motivation...