Heavy tuba mouthpieces

[GhostlyBoy08]

Hi guys i was wondering which tuba mouthpieces have alot of weight to them Because at band cam today a guy loaned me his mouthpiece and it was kinda heavy. Anyways when we were playing cold hearted snake i was playing so loud the one guy in front of me said i was making the ground rumble. Suggestions please? I play ALOT so i can have a good tone at any volume

[swillafew]

Nice compliment! Keep up the good work, and don't give the mouthpiece so much credit.

[GhostlyBoy08]

Im not giving the mouthpiece credit its just my other one sounds kinda edgy u know?

[dmeacham5]

Whats your mouthpiece you normally use?

[GhostlyBoy08]

i cant really say there is no name on it

[Tuboss2]

Holy crap man I know what you mean. I sometimes feel like it's time to go mouthpiece shopping. But I don't have money for a new mouthpiece. I have a schimdt JHDTU and I over blow it so easily. But don't lean on the effectiveness of a mouthpiece too much dude. Just keep on doin what u do and get to a point where you basically have total mastery of your mouthpiece. Complete, total, mastery.

And nice job on the ground rumbling. That kind of stuff always makes us feel good! I know it makes me feel good haha.

[Heavy_Metal]

Howard Johnson likes heavy mouthpieces, so does Tony Clements, so do I. But none of these are good reasons to use one unless it works for you.

Here is an earlier discussion of them:

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GhostlyBoy, if you can post some pictures of your current mouthpiece we might be able to ID it.

[Donn]

Next time you're in the vicinity, compare the mouthpieces. Put your thumb in them to see how deep they are. Look through the bore. You won't be able to see the details of the backbore shape, etc., but if one mouthpiece has a bigger throat than the other, that's going to make a big difference, and I bet a quarter that heavy mouthpiece has a bigger throat.

[k001k47]

I'm not certain what you're asking for, but I'd pay attention to the backbore of the mouthpiece you borrowed - if the change in timbre is what you liked; compare it to your workhorse and try different mouthpieces based on your observations. Hope this helps

EDIT: oops! Didn't read all the replies; Donn's was pretty much the same.
It'd help the thread a lot if you list the models of mouthpieces you used.

[DPlander]

If all your looking for is a "Heavy" Mouthpiece, then look no farther than a LOUD mouthpiece. They are heavy. I play on one from time to time and it is wonderful. But before you plunk down that hard earned cash, Iw ould do like the others have said and check out the differences between your and theirs first.

[tubaman1019]

Mike Finn makes some decently heavy mouthpieces. I played on a 3B for like a year. Theres a lot of different MF styles you can try. Check em out

[Michael Bush]

It might be worthwhile to do a "blind tasting" of several mouthpieces, including some heavy ones if you think that's a direction you might go in.

Someone with expert ears did that with me using five mouthpieces a couple of months ago (no heavyweights in that flight, though). Very informative and useful. I have one mouthpiece per tuba now, (other than some unsaleable odds and ends): two blokepiece solos (with different size shanks) and one Stofer Geib.

I gave up on the heavy mouthpiece thing a while back after trying quite a few. It ended up seeming that either it didn't make any real difference for me, or the difference wasn't positive. I find the Stofer Geib to be a quite "dark" mouthpiece with a lot of "presence" (or whatever you would call it), and it of course isn't heavy at all — really very much on the lightweight side.