Loud Mouthpieces

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:27 am

does anyone know where you can go to try these?

ken k

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 10:06 am

I don't believe LOUD distributes through a retail chain. So you can't try one out locally. But he does have a pretty liberal return policy. It's not WalMart, but for a small manufacturer, it is reasonable due to the costs involved. Quote from the website:

"Our Return Policy

"You can try any of our mouthpieces or rims for two weeks. After two weeks, you may return the item for a full refund. The customer pays the shipping back to us and a $10 restocking fee is charged per item. As long as the item isn't damaged, no questions will be asked. Period!"

I have an LM-7 on order. I'll post after I've had a chance to try it out. I got lucky. I ordered mine before Joe went on vacation. The rest of you will have to wait another three weeks!

Dr. Dave · Post by **Dr. Dave** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:12 pm

ken k wrote:does anyone know where you can go to try these?

ken k

Hey Ken --

I'd recommend contacting Dave Amason at Big Brass http://www.bigbrass.com/ he can help you with whatever LOUD mouthpiece you're interested in.

Dave
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Dr. David Rolf

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Thu Mar 15, 2007 2:30 pm

Update: I ordered, received and tried a LOUD LM-7 mouthpiece. Very fine mouthpiece indeed. The workmanship is top quality, and even though the bowl is a pretty standard bowl, it looks like they've done something to the throat and the way its taper transitions to the backbore to make it a superlative mouthpiece for cleanness of articulation. If I were needing to do a lot of close mike recording, orchestra work, or other work where absolute clean and technical precision and consistency throughout the registers were the overriding factors, I would keep it. but for me it's a little dry and/or sterile, shall I say, "surgical," or maybe "tight" might be a description also, for me for concert band. I'm going to stick with my Wick 1 for my Besson and a Wick 1L for my Miraphone to get a little bit warmer, broader sound for my application. Great mouthpiece, though.

Edit: I would imagine it would be a great mouthpiece for a larger tuba, like a big Rudy, Holton 345, a copy of the large York, or such.