[Alan Brinton]

I have hard rubber (or flexible plastic) clear tubing that looks similar to what you have going into the fitting, Lowboy. Inside diameter 3/8″, outside 9/16″. It wouldn’t be flexible enough for most players who want to use a tube, but it’s good for a short stretch or for adapting from one piece to another.

The first photo shows it attached to the Hammond/Suzuki gooseneck extension. The fit is tight, as it is in the second photo with the tube fitting for the mouthpiece end of a Suzuki tube. This clear tubing fits inside the mouthpiece opening of a Piano 26/27, but it’s a little bit too loose. I like to use this fitting as a mouthpiece with some of my small Suzukis, especially the short key Suzuki Study II.

The Hammond/Suzuki gooseneck entension is long enough for playing with two hands if you’re leaning over the melodica. Using both fittings, the gooseneck could be extended with the clear tubing.

Something that also deserves mentioning is that the feel of the keyboard is radically different when it’s being played on a flat surface as opposed to being held in the left hand. It seems to me that the tactile aesthetic of playing a melodica is thereby lost. I can’t see how this would work at all for Lowboy’s playing techniques.