I use Ultra-Pure. Incidentally, my most recent online order arrived yesterday, and it came from an Eastman address, which is a recent change if I remember my mid-2024 order correctly.

Ok, so far the choice seem to be either a Denis Wick 3L or a JK Exclusive 6. For what it's worth, when I was testing mouthpieces on my Eb tuba, the 3L was terrible (weird uneven resonance), though the 2L was acceptable, and the 3SL was good. You also mentioned the 24AW, which I didn't care for ...

NTD.jpg This Yamaha YEB-632IIS tuba was new, though the actual NTD was a few months ago. I like my King 2341, but I love this tuba. Intonation is as good as for any valved brass instrument I've played, and it's easy to produce what sounds to me like a sweet, lyrical tone. Slots are well defined ...

In my experience, two activities stand out for which physical warmup is critical. One is rock climbing, which involves lots of static muscle tension in the forearms. The other is playing brass in the upper register, again with varying degrees of static muscle tension. Admittedly, tuba is the least ...

I like the Wick range and now use a 2L on my EEb Tuba; for me the bigger cup energised the fourth valve range and gave a fuller quality to the sound, but YMMV. This comment gave me an excuse to try a 2L as part of a broad search for mouthpieces that work well with my new Eb tuba (Yamaha YEB-632IIS ...

Having spent most of my time playing euphonium, the vast majority of my tuba playing has been Bb, with a bit of C noodling. However, as mentioned in another thread, I recently acquired a 3+1 Eb tuba, and one of the big initial surprises was how softly it can play cleanly. I mean, it's controllable ...

My assumption, not informed by actual experience, was that depositing a layer of silver over the gold would have adhesion issues. If that turns out to be incorrect, I'll probably give over-plating a shot. Meanwhile I have a silver-plated SM9 on the way... coming from Europe since I couldn't find one ...

I had no idea that Denis Wick omits silver under the gold plating. That's terrible! Guess who's retiring a gold-plated Denis Wick mouthpiece ASAP.

I have played a Yamaha YBH-621S in a British brass band for a couple years now, and a year ago went on a mouthpiece discovery kick. My bias going into it is that I'm striving for a distinctly brighter sound than euphonium, which it seems may be less in vogue over the past decade or so; there is a ...