Remington shank bass bone mouthpieces

[bigbandbone]

Is anybody currently making Remington shank bass bone mouthpieces?

[Burgerbob]

Doug Elliot!

[hornbuilder]

Hammond will do them, too

[GabrielRice]

Greg Black can also do it.

I've had the best result, pitch-wise, with a Doug Elliott Conn shank, which (unlike Greg Black) is the same length as his standard shanks. I tend to play low on the pitch center, my 70H is a little long, and I'm used to big mouthpieces. The horn plays and sounds great for my purposes with an LB114/L/L8C.

[bassbone]

+1 for Doug Elliott. I have since sold my 70H, but I got the best results with a setup from Doug (that I purchased from Gabe actually). He also makes a slightly smaller version of his Conn shanks if you prefer them to sit in the horn a little further. using the setup Gabe lists above the smaller shank would be L8Cs

When I was looking, I reached out to Laskey, Hammond, Greg Black and other similar mouthpiece makers and all either ignored my inquiry completely or quoted me a price that seemed like they were saying "I don't want to screw around with this, but if you pay this exorbitant price I'd consider it." This was admittedly about 4 years ago so policies/attitudes might have changed in the mean time. When I reached out, I asked for one of their standard mouthpieces with a Remington/Morse taper instead of the stock one. Of those that bothered to reply, I think all quoted me a price in line with a totally custom mouthpiece from them instead of a small upcharge to replace the standard taper with morse which to me did not seem reasonable.

[Burgerbob]

The standard taper is Morse, I'm pretty sure.

[Doug Elliott]

Yes, Morse is the standard taper for most horns.
I can make lots of variations to fit older horns.
They're all the same price.

[bassclef]

John Stork made me a couple. It was a custom request, however.

At one time, the shank on all standard production Schilke large bore mouthpieces was the Remington style. I have a 59 from that period, and it's for sale. Let me know if you're interested!

[eatanick]

Pickett can make them, too. I bought mine second hand, so I don't know if it's an upcharge.

[chromebone]

Schilke will make one on special order. I just had them make a 51C4 with an old style B&S taper shank.