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Burgerbob wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:22 pmMarkey 90

BassboneJ25 wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:38 am any thoughts on Giddings?

Burgerbob wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:41 am

BassboneJ25 wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:38 am any thoughts on Giddings?

I'll just go ahead and say no

BassboneJ25 wrote: Wed Feb 26, 2025 10:38 am any thoughts on Giddings?

WGWTR180 wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 8:32 am I realize I'll get multiple opinions on this but here goes. Markey 90 size wise is close to what? Markey 87 size wise is close to??

Burgerbob wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 8:35 am

WGWTR180 wrote: Sun Mar 02, 2025 8:32 am I realize I'll get multiple opinions on this but here goes. Markey 90 size wise is close to what? Markey 87 size wise is close to??

90 is Greg black 1G sized (29mm), 87 is Greg black 1 1/8G sized (bit smaller).

Markey uses the 87 for most playing.

BassboneJ25 wrote: Mon Feb 24, 2025 9:14 pm I play an Edwards B502i with a single bore.562 slide and SS B3 leadpipe. I’m a pretty advanced player that has received their terminal degree in trombone performance. I am currently playing on a Hammond 21BXL and a Laskey 90D. For me, the Hammond is a very orchestral dark sound that can carry the weight of an orchestral section on heavier germanic/romantic repertoire, and the laskey is a brighter sound that can carry more of the early classical and jazz band sound and sections. I am currently looking for a mouthpiece that I can use with soloing. So the hammond, for me, is too dark and in the upper register loses some of overtone color to help project, a wide wall of sound. The laskey is great, but whenever I give it any more power, the sound breaks up really soon, a laser of sound. I am looking for something in between those two styles. Any suggestions would be helpful!

hyperbolica wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 6:56 am Back to stainless, I've never played Giddings, but I've played other stainless components. Stainless steel itself is a great mouthpiece material. It gives more power to the sound, maybe because it is more dense/heavier than brass. ... Stainless is a valid material even if Giddings isn't the best example.

SamBTbrn wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 2:23 pm Give the Bob Reeve line a try. If you can find a place that has them in your area.

Burgerbob wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 2:38 pm IMO of course, but the Reeves pieces are pretty weird. I've played most of them (including the Schippers) and I'm unsure of what the design brief is.

Burgerbob wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 2:38 pm IMO of course, but the Reeves pieces are pretty weird. I've played most of them (including the Schippers) and I'm unsure of what the design brief is.

Burgerbob wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 4:26 pm Very heavy, thick rims. A bit like old Minicks but I don't feel the same magic in the sound. I had an O Bass for a bit but my laskey 85MD is simply better in every metric in that size range.

tbonesullivan wrote: Wed May 06, 2026 8:29 am

Burgerbob wrote: Tue May 05, 2026 4:26 pm Very heavy, thick rims. A bit like old Minicks but I don't feel the same magic in the sound. I had an O Bass for a bit but my laskey 85MD is simply better in every metric in that size range.

A bit off topic, but have you had a chance to compare the new 85MD to the old ones? My first "real" bass trombone mouthpiece after a Faxx 1 1/2G was a Scott Laskey made 85MD. I still have it, among other "old production" laskey pieces, but have never gotten a chance to try any of the "new production".

SamBTbrn wrote: Wed May 06, 2026 2:41 am Hey Erikon, I use an O bass (standard model) as my main bass mouthpiece. I also have an O bass Mercury (the light weight version) with a Remington shank for my Con 60H.

It was not the mouthpieces I thought I would buy when I finally moved off my schilke 59 after 15 years on it, but after trying everything around it was the one that was the best for me.

I find the thicker rim Aidan mentions to be the most comfortable mouthpiece rim I've played on. The laskeys I find are so thin, feels more sharp than the Schilkes.

And yeah it's a big heavy mouthpiece, but they do make lighter versions now, so that's always an option. But the depth of the cup also feels right for me, not shallow but angles back in a little like a funnel mouthpiece at the bottom.

There is also a Martin Schipper version that is between the Mr bass and the O bass.

It's a different style of mouthpiece, but worth trying to see if it's maybe the style for you.

GabrielRice wrote: Wed May 06, 2026 9:20 am I played the Laskey 93D for several years, and I had a lot of them in and out of my possession over time - maybe almost 2 dozen. There were some discernible patterns, including two clearly different backbore dimensions (that Scott had an unpublished way of indicating on the outside of the mouthpiece), but they were all different. Sometimes extremely different.

I guess what I'm saying is: beware generalizations about old Laskey mouthpieces.