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[TheHatTuba]

Laskey 30H without the sharp rim (preferably in steel)?

[Roger Lewis]

The Schilke Helleberg II was, I believe, quite similar but with a much more comfortable rim. I would especially look for an older one as they were handmade by Scott when he was working for Schilke. He made them in batches of 10 or 12 and would wait until he had enough orders to cover the time to set up the tooling to run them. A very fine player in Texas would order order them by the dozen for his students so that they would run them right away.

I feel the newer ones, while good, are a bit different from the Laskey made ones. They were pretty thin. The decorative stripe carved on the outside of mine actually can be felt on the inside of the bowl but I don't believe it affected the way it played.

Unfortunately it is a brass mouthpiece not stainless.

Roger

[wonderbread403]

Check out Houser Mouthpieces. His Mouthpiece Ordinance line has a MK7, which is a SHII/Laskey 30H cup. Then you can choose from several choices of rims. All in steel!