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Do all the shire leapipe variants (such as long vs standard) have the same insertion depth? I recently noticed the one long pipe I have (B 2L) allows my mouthpiece to go in about 1/8-1/4 of a inch further (by my best measurement. It seems to play fine to my, but I am curious if that is normal or not.

I heard from Christan Griego on one of his recent videos that Shires is now making pipes similar to Yamaha bass pipes that eat up the shank of the mouthpiece. I think they deliberately make them that way. It's at the 3:50 ish mark:

They should all be the same, but it's hard to make them that way. They have some variation.

harrisonreed wrote: Tue Jan 06, 2026 1:55 pm I heard from Christan Griego on one of his recent videos that Shires is now making pipes similar to Yamaha bass pipes that eat up the shank of the mouthpiece.

That's old information. Shires did that at the beginning but went to a more standard 1" Morse taper insertion many years ago.

And there is manufacturing variation. Sometimes it was more variation than I was comfortable with when I was working there, but I was not in charge of manufacturing or design. My sense is that they are more consistent recently.