Freakishly large Holton mouthpieces?

Rommel72 · Post by **Rommel72** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 8:04 pm

I had one of these. I never used it. It was way too big for me. So, I sold it.

drewfus · Post by **drewfus** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:05 am

That was the mp that a poor little 9 year old girl was trying to play a sousy on in a friend of mine's band class. I tried it last week in my YBB-321, it wore me out.

Thanks to the Big Ben here she has a Kelly 25 and is doing great with it.

Bandmaster · Post by **Bandmaster** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:52 am

I have a Holton Revelation 52 mouthpiece and it dwarfs my G&W Bayamo. It's not just that its deep, the back bore is down right huge! It definately makes your horn sound dark....

Steve Marcus · Post by **Steve Marcus** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 8:13 am

I took my huge Holton Galaxy mpc to my early lessons with Rex Martin. At one point I informed him that I intended to have it replated. "Don't you dare!" he replied. "Go buy yourself a decent mouthpiece!"

Fortuitous timing--it was just when Scott Laskey had begun making his own mouthpieces but had not yet established a retail network. So I went to his own shop. Scott himself listened to me play with several of his 30H's and helped me pick the one that sounded best.

MikeMason · Post by **MikeMason** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 1:42 pm

I bought an old holton mp from Lee Stofer that is just marked"collegiate".it's pretty big but with a pretty small backbore.Don't really use it,but it actually works pretty well.

bttmbow · Post by **bttmbow** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 2:55 pm

I have TWO 30Hs (E shank) that I love!
I also have a great A shank one that I can use an adapter on, if for some reason I forget my regular one.

Other than that...

AndyL · Post by **AndyL** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:22 pm

I have a Holton 7 and Holton Revelation 52 mouthpiece.

They are identical except for the name stamped on the side.

I read somewhere that Holton used the "Revelation" name on student line products.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:15 pm

AndyL wrote:I read somewhere that Holton used the "Revelation" name on student line products.

Even the BB-345 might have been considered a student instrument. The one I own spent most of its life at a school.

My understanding is that the Revelation 52 was the mouthpieces supplied with the 345. In my opinion, it's entirely wrong. The Holton is big and needs an anti-woof mouthiece, and the 52 is a woof-magnifier. A Reynolds Dr. Young would be unhearable on a 345--probably subsonic. But a 345 sounds like a leaky old sousaphone with the 52, and maybe that's the sound they were after.

I use a PT-48. It's not small, but it's a little shallower with a bit more cup shape. It excites a whole range of harmonics and gives the horn a lively, non-woofy sound.

Rick "who keeps the 52 for historical interest only" Denney

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Freakishly large Holton mouthpieces?

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