arpthark Still got it. Still point and shoot. I thought when I got my 184-5U I'd part with the Gnagey and my MW182 F and just have a stable of one horn, but the 184 fits really well in between the two other horns, and the intonation and ease of playing on the Gnagey is so good that I keep using it ...

Curiously, the one wind instrument which has moved towards more treble in the sound over the last fifty years (in the USA) has been the horn, and this has probably mostly been due to the Chicago Symphony influence (horns with smaller bell throats). Alexander horns in Germany naturally sound that ...

. I'm wondering if they get enough orders - these days - for 184/185 instruments to have gone to that expense and to retool their bugles. bloke "a good bit of speculation - vs. known facts - in my post" The 185 I played a couple years ago would be pretty strong proof that they haven't. May be the ...

I love my 184. It's not at all an easy instrument to play, though, in a couple important ways. The intonation is bad. There is a lot of slide pulling I have to do, and alternate fingerings for C#, D, Eb, and E are a must. Even for shorter notes. They're that far out. The bottom line G is sharp. Top ...

You two (who've posted in response, thus far) may recall that I've BOTH monkeyed around with a B extension for my (formerly-owned) C tuba as well as an A extension for THIS (Miraphone 98) tuba. Having played (and actually WORKED ON, not just "played through once or twice") this excerpt with C, B, B ...

I work on this excerpt (rehearsal 11 - 14) - from time-to-time - as it requires so much energy, concentration, accurate tuning, timing, and a strategy for supplying air to blow past my lips. I just realized that - playing it with a B-flat tuba (after all these years of "splitting the difference ...

Just taken down two octaves? Or played with "trumpet fingerings" so oboe C4 is tuba F2? I just read off the oboe score. So it works out that I take it two octaves down, yes. Oboe range is a "low B-flat" up to an F or G 2-1/2 octaves higher... ...perfect for doing embarrassingly bad jobs of playing ...

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Oboe literature on F tuba. Sits incredibly well.

Just taken down two octaves? Or played with "trumpet fingerings" so oboe C4 is tuba F2?

I just read off the oboe score. So it works out that I take it two octaves down, yes.

There were some published solos I think associated with Pat Sheridan that used the original “trumpet” fingering patterns that were transposed for various keys of tubas. I don’t have any detailed info. That's a really good sub-topic, in other words "how particular solos sit/lay on the various lengt ...

Basic philosophical rambling, then some concrete advice: Rambling Playing an instrument is a physical skill. Like any physical skill, it sucks at first. It takes a lot of time and dedication to make it feel "natural." Making ANY NOISE out of it at first is good. That's your goal for now. Make a ...

If the title's any indication, shouldn't you be playing it on one of these? https://us.wessex-tubas.com/cdn/shop/products/TC236GL_0176-min.jpg?v=1624549836&width=550 I'm not a Gershwin-ologist, but, I don't think he spent THAT much time in Paris and spent much more time around Broadway.... :teeth ...

I've spent the last 10 years going smaller and smaller with my equipment. I'm aided by the fact that I don't play professionally, so I don't need to please anyone or meet anyone's expectation. I've been toying with just going down to one horn, either a small Eb or medium sized F, because I don't ...

I'm really impressed by Mary Ann's insights, whereby a bunch of young people are playing in front of some name player/teacher as well as in front of each other (whereby there all normally either in competition with each other and/or rarely play in front of anyone). Mary Ann pointing out that they ...

I will go one further here: There is no excuse not to shape phrases and lines from the bottom. We generally have one of the technically easiest parts in any group in which we are performing. Meaning we have the spare brain power to listen to what's going on around us, keep very conscious of the ...

There is something about King instruments though. The tubas sound good, the sousaphones sound good, the euphoniums sound good, the marching brass sounds good, and the long discontinued saxophones sound good . King has been on the right track for a long time. I mentioned it in another thread - I was ...

104 ? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Trying to think back about 25 years at this point. I was able to find a video and the 104 appears to be on the left shoulder Played one of these for 4 years in high school marching band. They were certainly....a thing. It would have made sense to me if our band director had bought th ...

The last time I looked for a new mouthpiece, it was literally just "to see." I had played American-style CC tubas for years (decades) and had a good set of mouthpieces for those horns. I had just gotten a Miraphone 184. It sounded fine with my existing mouthpieces, but I hadn't played any other ...

It may be beneficial when working with it to have a fan blowing perpendicular to you. If you're allergic enough that even having small amounts of it in the air around you irritates you, I'd offer that it's worth a shot. Having the fan blowing across you into an open area could significantly reduce ...

I like how the catalog uses the term “deflecting bell.” One of the definitions of deflect is, “To avoid something, such as criticism or blame.” Perhaps the deflecting bell will make the conductor think it was the bass trombonist that hit that clam. :teeth: If I had the required creativity and time, ...

A few thoughts. 1. I think we overthink Ride a lot. A. LOT. Along with most of our other excerpts. And in general, the overthinking leads to overcomplication which leads to always flubbing the rhythm. 2. Related to #1, and this applies to almost every discipline I've ever encountered. The easiest ...