What mouthpiece is A. Jacobs using here?

[doublebuzzing]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNAiX13YZEw" target="_blank" target="_blank

Go to 9:42 for a good look. Hard to tell for sure. Maybe somebody here knows?

[Ken Herrick]

custom Schilke adjustable cup with rim duplicated from his number 1 Conn Helleberg.

[UDELBR]

It also looks similar to a mouthpiece I own that supposedly once belonged to AJ:





As Ken says, this is a "dial-a-cup" piece. Aside from a millimeter scale, the only markings are "KINGROSS". No idea what that means.

[imperialbari]

Interesting that the CSO at all employs a tuba in the performance of a score, which has parts for neither tuba nor for ophicleide.

[DHMTuba]

Interesting that the CSO at all employs a tuba in the performance of a score, which has parts for neither tuba nor for ophicleide.

Yes, Rossini didn't write a tuba part when he composed La Gazza Ladra in 1817. The Breitkopf and Hartel edition on IMSLP (edited by Gustav Kogel) does have a tuba part, and I think that's the edition the CSO is playing. Maybe we have Mr. Kogel to thank?
That's a great shot of Mr. Jacobs and Mr. Kleinhammer!

[k001k47]

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Yup. . .

It's a mouthpiece

[kathott]

Great. Now I want one.

[Chuck Jackson]

I cannot remember who arranged it, but the version they are playing is done more commonly over here than the original overture with its single trombone part. I have never seen the original instrumentation performed here in the US as a concert overture by a symphony orchestra. I have only seen the much thinner (and less interesting, IMHO) original done in a pit at performances of the full opera.I cannot remember who arranged it, but the version they are playing is done more commonly over here than the original overture with its single trombone part. I have never seen the original instrumentation performed here in the US as a concert overture by a symphony orchestra. I have only seen the much thinner (and less interesting, IMHO) original done in a pit at performances of the full opera.

+1

Interestingly enough, if my memory serves me correctly, Von Karajan recorded this version on an all Rossini Overture disk I had as a kid. I later performed it with the Syracuse Symphony Youth Orchestra. Great fun, kinda like the Hungarian March on steroids.

Chuck

[UDELBR]

Yes, Rossini didn't write a tuba part when he composed La Gazza Ladra in 1817.

I've been told by many European conductors that different versions were made of many works merely in order to subvert copyright laws; add some instruments and you've got an "original work".

[doublebuzzing]

In that picture it looks remarkably like one of the R&S heavyweight (a.k.a. beer can) mouthpieces. Is that what the Schilke adjustable looked like? I know in one of the "Portrait of an Artist" recordings Mr. Jacobs mentions using the adjustable cup mouthpiece before playing a solo.

That's what it looked like to me at first too.

[eupher61]

Yes, Rossini didn't write a tuba part when he composed La Gazza Ladra in 1817.

I've been told by many European conductors that different versions were made of many works merely in order to subvert copyright laws; add some instruments and you've got an "original work".

Ever wonder why there are so many "editions" of Sousa, King, Fillmore, et al, marches? Exactly this reason.

[daytontuba]

As luck would have it, presently playing the overture, titled in German "Ouverture zur Oper,,Die diebische Elster", published by Edwin F. Kalmus & Co. The part is printed for tuba, though someone has penciled in "Ala Cimbaso" (their spelling - not the way I spell it).