Anyone Familiar With This Bach Mouthpiece?

Larry Smithee · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Nov 2001 Posts: 4399

I've got a Bach 6BM (small letters) that I've never seen before. It has a deep round cup. Does anyone know what the "M" might stand for?
Larry

jophst · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 5:55 am Post subject:

I think it stands for "maybe" ... they weren't too sure on the size so they just guessed and put an M after it. Buy at your own risk!!

All jokes aside, I have no idea but I would like to know as well. I don't know what the "W" stands for but I know it is a very round cushioned rim.

Anyone know?
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jblo · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:02 am Post subject:

I've wondered that myself. I know the Bach catalog says "W" = wide. It doesn't say what the "M" stands for. At first I thought maybe it stood for Megatone becuase the 6BM has a #26 throat like the Megatone series. However, the 6BM has a #24 backbore, so maybe M means "modified". I don't really know. Just a guess
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cfmiles · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:03 am Post subject:

I think it stands for mellophone.

bachstrad72 · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:57 am Post subject:

What a Bach 6BM is, is simply a Bach 6B with a stock larger throat and backbore. If I remember correctly, its a 26 throat, and a 24 boackbore, stock.

PS just saw that someone already found this info. After some thought I think that the M stands for someone's initial. It was designed as a smaller rimmed orchestral mouthpiece.

[ This Message was edited by: bachstrad72 on 2004-02-11 09:59 ]

jophst · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:58 am Post subject:

Yes I would guess "Modified" as well:

6BM
Medium deep
16.20 mm
Medium wide, not too sharp.

Same as No. 6B but larger #26 throat, #24 backbore. Large symphony sound

I wonder why they don't make a 3CM or 1.5CM ... or others .. might be a nice stock combination!
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Larry Smithee · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Nov 2001 Posts: 4399

Ha! You guys are a riot. It is a big deep cupped mouthpiece. I can actually scream the living crap out of a high C with it

Larry

_dcstep · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 8:08 am Post subject:

Great! If it screams good, then it's probably got a tighter backbore, as suggested earlier.

Dave
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_Japle · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 8:27 am Post subject:

I have one of those. It has a #26 throat and a 24 backbore. This means less resistance and a broader tone than the standard 6B.
It's a pretty good orchestral MP.
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Larry Smithee · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Nov 2001 Posts: 4399

Thanks for the info, everybody.
Larry

Tom K. · Veteran Member Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 483

As I've just been potty training my kid, do I have to remind you what BMs are?

_Japle · Posted: Wed Feb 11, 2004 1:39 pm Post subject:

Tom,

Speaking of BMs......

Back in the late ‘60s, airliners didn’t store their restroom waste. In flight, they simply dumped it. (Pun intended)
At high altitude, the stuff would often freeze to the outside of the plane, sometimes in big clumps. As the plane descended, the lumps of “blue ice” would break off and fall to the ground. They usually melted before they hit, but not always.
In one instance, a 22 lb. chunk fell through the roof of a house belonging to an old lady in Connecticut and hit her in the thigh, breaking the bone.
The moral of the story is this:
During the Cold War, you didn’t have to live near a military target to risk being hit by an ICBM.
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