If anyone has a good lacquer 321 they want to swap for a Wessex Dolce (in need of polishing…) let me know. I’ve always felt the compensating euphs were stuffy down low (including all the nice ones). It’d be perfect with the pitch finder and 5th valve. It’s also super stuffy in the compensating range. I have a Wessex Dolce that is just not cutting it pitch wise (the 321s ive played have been much better). On the way back from my last euph gig I resolved to do just this. In my opinion, it turns the YEP-321 into a lean, mean performance machine. A person might need to go through a European retailer to get a YEP-621 receiver/leadpipe.īassclef.if you can get a mouthpiece receiver/leadpipe from a YEP-621, you will be set. Availability of parts for Yamaha instruments can be unpredictable. It looks like those horns are available in Europe. I guess there was not much of a market for them here. I remember seeing three or four of those horns here in the states back in the 1990s, but then they vanished. Thanks Jim.yes, the YEP-621 was the model I was thinking of.

A main tuning slide trigger (for tuning) of some kind is also a great upgrade. Add the plug-in 5th valve, and those horns compete quite well with the compensating models. Ymaha sells the 621 (large shank, non-compensating) leadpipes and it's an easy job for a good repair person to swap it for the standard pipe. Something about the large receiver opening into a smaller leadpipe made it tough to control the PP dynamics. I've also played some where just the receiver was changed on the existing leadpipe, and they played OK, but I found them hard to play soft on.

I used to own a 321 with a Yamaha 621 leadpipe on it - great improvement.

Yep 321 euphonium