Griego Mouthpiece Show/ TCU

Sean Greene · Post by **Sean Greene** » Fri Sep 09, 2005 9:29 am

I haven't had a chance to try one yet, but I have met Christian. He is a really meticulous dude who knows tons about instrument design and sound production. And he's a tremendous fellow to boot.

Sean

JayW · Post by **JayW** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 4:26 am

I stringly suggest anyone in the area take this opportunity, you will NOT be disappointed. I sell these Mpc's at work and have tried them along with several other tubists, they really are quite nice.

Alex C · Post by **Alex C** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 8:13 pm

If you are a tuba player in the DFW area, find a way to get to TCU on Wednesday for this event.

I suggest three reasons:

1) these mouthpieces are excellent. This seems to be real improvement in mouthpiece design. Not re-runs of someone else's design.
2) it's good to know your colleagues outside of your own university
3) if you don't go, someone you audition against may and it could improve the results... for them!

One mouthpiece in particular made a marked improvement in my instrument's playability. Almost all of them made some improvement... and my current mouthpiece is one of the expen$ive ones.

Go.

JimG · Post by **JimG** » Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:12 am

I am ready to be in line to try these out. I spoke with a couple of college players that had been using them, and the responses were "AWESOME"

It will be nice to bring my horn to the mouthpieces and be able to really do a comparative study.

Jim G

JimG · Post by **JimG** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 1:02 am

Frog bump. (ttt)

Alex C · Post by **Alex C** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 9:19 am

Richard, I'm sorry to tell you that I'm going to be out of town Wednesday night. I hate to miss this, the 325 I already bought is a great mouthpiece... I'd love to try the others.

JimG · Post by **JimG** » Fri Sep 30, 2005 12:18 am

OK, it took a couple of hours listening to the college students play on all the new shiny mouthpieces and to get them to listen to me play, but it was a lot better than the old way. You know where you plunk down your credit card then wait for a new mouthpiece to arrive, only to find out it makes your horn sound stuffy. Well, I put all 8 mouthpieces in my horn and played the same etude over and over. The differences were vast. I thought my regular mouthpiece (B&S 52) was pretty close to perfect for my horn. Turns out the 330D is closer to perfection by alot. I like the 325XD too, but everybody said the 330D really made the upper register sing and made the low end clearer and gave a bigger presence all around. These Griego mouthpieces seem easier to blow than anything else I have ever tried. After 29 years of tuba playing, I think I may have found something that really makes a difference. No amount of woodshed time will make the tone difference and clarity that the 330D does. Sign me up!
Jim G