I have owned an identical tuba SN16378 for 50 years. Sill played in performance. Bell is engraved with U.S.N.

I recently bought a bell-front Martin Mammoth and after thinking about it the next morning, realized there wasn't enough space in our rehearsal room to lay it on the floor. So I went back and bought the stand the fellow also had. I play it on the stand. It's that heavy. I'm that old, though big. I ...

I've been doing Yoga again after years of slacking off and it is helping my breath control for both tuba and trumpet. I have big lungs, in my younger days nearly 7 liters as measured by my kenesiology grad-student housemate. So filling a horn hasn't been a problem even into my seventies but breath ...

This sounds like a nice opportunity, Bloke. I find playing "arrangements" often frustrating. Sometimes they're the conductor's own arrangements and he changes them from week to week if something doesn't work. Our community orchestra is a sort of reverse-pro wherein we pay the conductor/music ...

I wear a beret, trombone does too. Low brass uniform. Keeps my head warm in the cold hall. Drop it into the bell of my EEb when I need a mute, much to the amusement of all. Works well. Conductor likes it. I tried that on my Martin Mammoth and had to take the bell off to retrieve it. If I include the ...

Hi All, I'm a longtime trumpeter who dug out a tuba I've owned for 50 years when the community orchestra needed help in the Bass section. By that time the orchestra had three trumpets, the most recent addition of which had come from SFO and could sight read anything. Having got Covid and long Covid ...