Originally Posted by
RickF
[snip]There is a Yamaha performing artist I know in NY who plays both tuba and euphonium and he likes the Schilke 60 on euphonium. That's a huge mouthpiece for euphonium. It works for him but I think that's because he is used to playing tuba more. A mouthpiece that big would make the higher notes even harder to obtain than the mouthpieces you've tried already.[snip].
Walter Barrett (NYC metropolitan area), plays a Yamaha 641 using a Doug Elliott 114 rim (I think the rest of the mouthpiece is J cup and J8 shank, but I'm not sure). He has told me that he used to play a Schilke 60. Walter's main instruments are trombone and euphonium, and while I've known him to play bass trombone, and I wouldn't doubt that he can play tuba, I've never heard him mention it as his main instrument.
Walter has a very smooth range from the pedal tones to concert C5 (and likely, higher than that; that's just the highest I've heard him play when I've been in his section). I asked him about his choice of such a large mouthpiece, and he said something to the effect that it felt right to him.
Dean L. Surkin
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