bowl cupped Helleberg?

[Tubaryan12]

Once I find the perfect mouthpiece, on which I make no mistakes and sound like Arnold Jacobs, i will be sure to let everyone here know!
ken k

We're counting on you for this. We are all hoping/expecting a cure-all mouthpiece. We'll be waiting expectantly.

yeah, what he said

[ScotGJ]

I will chime in on the LM7. I have been using one with the screw-on Helleberg rim (32.6). It is a very flat rim with a sharp inner edge.

I get a quicker artic response and better slotting on my Mira 186CC than I was getting with the newer 120s Helleberg. I would guess that it may have to do with the modified funnel and slightly smaller (IMO) rim diameter (or maybe it is the way that the sun reflects off the stainless steel ).

[SplatterTone]

I am thinking more like the cup on a 24AW. That is a real round bowl type cup.

If you want cushy rim but bigger inside than 24AW, the Yamaha and Miraphone mouthpieces tend be like that. The Yamaha Jim Self is probably the closest thing you will find to an overgrown 24AW. It has the widest external diameter of any mouthpiece I own, although the internal diameter is "moderately" large.

I favor the Miraphone TU29 and TU33 these days. With thin rimmed mouthpieces, I find that it takes more work and concentration to prevent the lips from getting blown into the mouthpiece with result that I play more on the soft, inner part of the lips and get a less lively tone.

[WakinAZ]

...Is that the general consensus of the differing characteristics of the two styles of mouthpeces? Bowl cups more dark and funnels abit more bright?..

Exactly the opposite from behind my horn. Maybe it's just dependent on the horn and the player. I like bowls in dark-sounding, penetrating German-style horns (gives needed color) and funnels in brighter, more colorful, velvety sounding American-style horns (gives needed clarity).

Eric "who bought a H'berg from Ken a while back" L.