Mouthpiece adapter for old Rudy Meinl

[elihellsten]

Hello. Playing Firebird and Young Person's Guide amongst other things next weekend followed by a tour the orchestra has rented a beautiful older 5/4 Rudy CC. However, the mouthpipe dimension is too large for my mouthpieces to fit.

http://www.thomann.de/se/bruno_tilz_ada ... tstuba.htm" target="_blank" target="_blank (nevermind the swedish)

Will this adapter work? It only says from old german tuba (which indeed sounds like the tuba in question) to tuba. There is another adapter from Bruno Tilz called "Big Bb tuba to F tuba", but it doesn't make as much sense.

Thanks in advance for quick answers!
Cheers

[elihellsten]

The orchestra will order an adapter if needed, so I thought I might just as well find the right one.

[PMeuph]

Sincerely,

For one to four weeks of use of a rental tuba, I would use rolled up paper.

My former euphonium teacher, used an old tuba mouthpiece that had been hack-sawed and filed down too much on his boosey and hawkes euphonium. To his own admission, he had been using rolled up paper for the last 35 years and had no intent of changing that.

[jon112780]

Roll clear, plastic, one-sided tape around the end of the mouthpiece shank as many times as needed. For my euphonium 'euro' shank mouthpieces fit in a 'bass bone' receiver, it takes 5-6 times around the end of the shank. Since there is a difference in taper in even the width of the tape, go slowly and you won't have any wrinkles.

Using this method, the tape will stay on the mouthpiece shank for quite some time (up to a week for me) before the moisture eventually seeps through the tape layers, and they begin to shift. Keep the tape in the compartment with your mouthpiece/tuner/metronome and you'll be set.

I prefer scotch tape to electrical or duct tape because it is so thin, which helps you adjust how far the mouthpiece goes in the shank a little at a time, quite easily.