Model C Cup

Out of stock again, more on the way.

This is my love letter to how I remember the O.G. Giardinellis playing growing up in the NYC suburbs.  Velvety, rich sound, smooth as butter, a presence felt in the chest of the audience rather than heard directly (aka doesn't project to save its life but makes a ton of sound energy).

This mouthpiece was designed with my recollection of how these played with some Strachan Brass secret sauce* thrown in to keep up with the demands of today's players.

The result is a very smooth, even playing experience and has surprisingly reasonable efficiency with an even more surprising high register.  But really you're here for the sound - dark, velvety but still energetic and alive.

They're not meant to be an exact C copy (and all of them played wildly differently, some were even made of sheet metal!) but instead to evoke that time and that sound.

After some ... controversy, this is back in its original glory; reverted to the v1.0 version. Fans of the more-Geyer-compatible v1.1 though, despair not! It hasn't been cast into design-library purgatory, It's simply been re-named the Model GC and is still available as a standard model.

(A note: Elkhart 8D players - this doesn't have the intonation fixes the model LA has for the Bb side of the horn.  It plays great on these horns, but you're not going to be able to punch middle C or F in the staff T0 and get it to sit down where those notes belong like you could with an LA.)

*It's not a secret - the original C-series have a sharp, angular junction at the throat.  Ours are curved.