Amati BBb Tuba Large Euro Shank Reciever Problems

[edsel585960]

Glad you found a horn. Is that the actual picture? The old Amati/Cervenys are good playing horns. Looks a lot like my 681.

[Donn]

Yeah, actually I got one for a Cerveny/Amati stencil Eb helicon with a weird receiver. I didn't care for it much, but some players must like it or it wouldn't still be on the market.

They market it as a "solo" mouthpiece, which I understand to mean shallower, and indeed I remember it as medium depth. They also market it as "funnel" shaped, but it isn't. That's kind of a matter of interpretation - no production mouthpiece has a literally conical profile that I know of, so it's always a compromise, but the Diablo seemed much more rounded to me than a Conn Helleberg, specifically at the top as I remember it the sides were near straight up and down. That was a long time ago, though. Anyway, the "solo" quality was there, but the tone felt colorless to my taste. I got rid of it.

It was a Euro shank, but still didn't fit. The local brass wizard made my receiver accept standard shanks, I don't recall if he said exactly how that was done. That was a huge improvement. I had all kinds of ideas over the years about the ideal best mouthpiece for that thing, eventually figured it was a Dillon Sheridan thing, and then when I sold it the lucky new owner preferred my favorite Marcinkiewicz H3. Even if it had been a regular Euro shank, that would have been wretched - difficult and expensive to experiment with mouthpieces.

[TheBerlinerTuba]

Hello TubaBum,

If you send Josef Klier Mouthpieces or Bruno Tilz Mouthpieces an email, either one of them have exactly what you need and is inexpensive.

Regards,
TheBerlinerTuba

[toobagrowl]

Dillon Music has an "Eb to BBb" tuba mpc adapter for only $25:

http://www.dillonmusic.com/p-3818-josef ... -tuba.aspx

I've had mine for years now, and it works great for fitting medium/smallish tuba mpc shanks via the adapter to larger mpc receivers

[pjv]

Find the link where Bloke discribes how he made an adapter type taper in the mouthpipe of an Alex (from an 88h outer slide I believe). Or write him an email or call him.