What's your favorite marching mouthpiece?

[ken k]

the 24AW has a very wide cushion rim which is very comfortable and secure to use while marching. It also has a huge bowl cup which gives sousas a big fat sound. You can also get plastice Kellys in a 24AW size I believe so if you wanted to go with a plastic kelly you could use that. The inner diameter of the rim is a bit small but because the rim profile is so wide it also doesn't move around as much while marching and the bowl is huge as I mentioned.

These seem to be patterned the old King 28(?) mouthpieces whcih were made for their sousaphones

I also like the idea of the lexan rim for the sellmasnberger you presently have.

If you like the helleberg Kelly makes a stanless version too, you may be albe to find an inexpensive one here onteh TN for sale forumk

[tubaplyer]

Conn-Helleberg, I didn't know you could use anything else.

[Nick Pierce]

For me, the best compromise of comfort, volume, sound quality, size, durability, and resiliency in adverse weather (extremely important in Colorado), is the Kelly copy of the PT-50. It cost me $50, but as I use at actual PT-50 as my main mouthpiece with my CC, I found it to be well worth it. If memory serves, only fifty or so of these were produced by the Kelly company at the time, and I have no idea if any of them are left, but it couldn't hurt to check. Shoot them an email and find out.