Model CV Cup

Our "do-it-all" cup.  The CV works with your horn to give a wonderfully even response from ppp to fff with a smooth, controlled sound.  The color focuses from dark to bright as the volume ramps up giving you access to a wide variety of sounds and textures.  Slurs are smooth and pitch stability remains good, even pushed to extreme volumes.

The CV works on a wide variety of horns from all major manufacturers. It has an incredibly even response across registers and even between horn designs.  And because it plays so evenly it can even bridge the gap to make an inexpensive horn play like one that cost thousands more.

Is the CV the best mouthpiece for your horn?  Maybe - it hangs with the best of the G series on even the nicest Geyer style horns out there.  And if you play a Kruspe it’s competitive with the LA even on the subset of Elkhart 8Ds that model was made for.  But unlike our other models - where sometimes you find a horn that just doesn’t like a mouthpiece for some reason - it plays well on everything. If you’re not here to wade through 13 other models to guess at which one might possibly be best, the CV is your go-to because it’s great or better on every horn we’ve tried*.

Now available in both modern shanks and in historic shank for early valve horns and natural horns.

#1|#13 conical bore, medium-deep cup.

*A few horns we’ve tested - All-original Geyers, Hills, a Berg, the new H179, the new 8D, old 179s, old 8Ds, Conn 6D, Yamaha 671, 668, 872, 87, 861, etc, Alexander 103, 102, 1103, 203, several CF Schmidts, a pair of very different McCrakens, an 1880s Raoux with sauterelle, an absolutely beat up Martin single F valves that leak no matter how heavy an oil is applied.  You get the idea.