“Loud” mouthpieces

[bigbandbone]

Over the weekend I got to try a friends Loud brand bass bone mouthpiece. Anyone know where I can buy one?

[Burgerbob]

Certainly not new... there's quite the story behind those.

[harrisonreed]

I think they are like $10000 on the site, right?

Or at least it used to be:

http://www.loudmouthpieces.com/

I think Houser Mouthpieces might actually have the old designs, so if you reach out to them, they might be about to recreate whatever LOUD brand piece you were after.

[WGWTR180]

Certainly not new... there's quite the story behind those.

Feel like sharing??

[harrisonreed]

It's an ugly divorce tale. Just look at the link I provided. That used to be a real company. For a while they actually had the remaining stock for sale, for like $10k each.

[Burgerbob]

Check out the web page linked... It's certainly something

[Bach5G]

I had a couple of Loud mpcs. Nothing to write home about IMO.

Check out Giddings. He’ll set you up.

[JohnL]

I think they are like $10000 on the site, right?

$10K? At one time, they were $1,000,000,000 (US).
https://web.archive.org/web/20180713071 ... ieces.com/

Some more selections from the Wayback Machine...
https://web.archive.org/web/20180324225 ... ieces.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190617225 ... ieces.com/
https://web.archive.org/web/20190212033 ... ieces.com/

and finally:
https://web.archive.org/web/20180712175 ... ics101.pdf
it's a long read...

[tbonesullivan]

Oh wow, I had never seen the "Manifesto" before, just the other stuff. I don't know if they made their mouthpieces in house, but as others have said they were involved with Houser mouthpieces for a while, and some of the pieced that LOUD sold were actually Houser designs, though I think those were mostly Tuba mouthpieces.

I you're looking for SS mouthpieces for bass trombone, Giddings is probably your best bet.

I don't know if Houser or Parker are making any bass trombone pieces at present, though if I recall both have contract made mouthpieces for other brand names in the past.

[WGWTR180]

Check out the web page linked... It's certainly something

Thx.

[Matt K]

The rare interesction where political and religious talk is related to mouthpieces. I'm so conflicted

[Lowbrassbrian]

Over the weekend I got to try a friends Loud brand bass bone mouthpiece. Anyone know where I can buy one?

I currently have a LM35 for sale, if you're interested.

[Bleek]

Patrick Mouthpieces has been a continuation of the Loud mouthpieces in the trumpet line. Steve talks about here; https://patrickmouthpieces.com/history/

But I don’t know if that applies to the trombone line. The BG mouthpieces are great.

[Aspenforest]

without going to far into it, there are about four to five more sites linked together with the LOUD page. it's a pretty large web of odd but semi interesting sites.