Hi, I've just started on Tuba last year after having to pack in the trombone due to a shoulder problem and a friend has lent me a couple of mouthpieces to try with my Martin Mammoth 3 valve BBb. 24AW 24W Schilke 67 The sound of the 24AW is the best of the three sound wise , but I do like the ...

I’ve seen but neither held or heard a three valve compensating Eb that’s had a fourth valve added. This guy in the UK does it, but it ain’t cheap. https://www.m-j-c.co.uk/page-8/ that's a 4 valve compensating Tuba that has had the piston 4th valve replaced with a rotor 4th valve. I think that conve ...

I’ve seen but neither held or heard a three valve compensating Eb that’s had a fourth valve added.
This guy in the UK does it, but it ain’t cheap. https://www.m-j-c.co.uk/page-8/

I'm pretty sure that skilled/blue collar/high-demand/reliable people in the USA write their own tickets, and - as expensive as it is to become and continue to be and M.D., I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to discover that some HVAC people NET more than quite a few M.D.'s. btw...Being an M.D ...

For a while I’ve thought that our standard of living is artificially high and that there’s too wide a difference between what captains of industry and shop floor workers earn. If you buy stuff in from low cost countries then you put your neighbour out of work, and if you don’t gainfully employ the po ...

I'll have to find a different way to add the chart..... Sorry. As a suggestion make the chart using your preferred program and then take a screenshot, post the screenshot as a photo. Mouthpieces are an enormous warren or rabbit hole. I use a Wick 2 on my Eb and my section mate uses a Wick 2 on his ...

Three of the five require an associate degree - anything applied is usually worth it and two years at ‘Uni’ should be more affordable than four. Linesmen are out in all (foul) weathers - often during and after storms. They work at heights, and high voltage electricity will kill you. Dangerous and har ...

The way the title was written, Ass. is the normal abbreviation for assistant used in the Uk. I will not post any further job opportunities. Whilst I don’t know all the details I suggest that you continue to post what you think is reasonable. The folk here are pretty friendly and sometimes we (as i ...

Don't AI spambots have anything better to do than resurrect 2 year old TubaForum threads? @groovlow is a spambot? I think that you're one post out in identifying the ‘culprit’, but perhaps an intentional slip? I’m wondering how the OP faired on his tour. His sticky valve might have been due to a rin ...

As someone probably not a lot bigger, or maybe not at all bigger -- the JK 8C and the Wick 5 come to mind as mouthpieces that are more tuba cups than a 32E (I have one of those and bleah) and still 30.5 mm diameter. I’m not disagreeing with you and just recall (for the OP’s information) that you pla ...

After reading through the thread the availability of the false tones required of the Besson appears questionable or in some transitory space: they work for some folk on their instruments and not for others on theirs. Was this instrument designed to give false tones? Probably not, its design was ...

As someone probably not a lot bigger, or maybe not at all bigger -- the JK 8C and the Wick 5 come to mind as mouthpieces that are more tuba cups than a 32E (I have one of those and bleah) and still 30.5 mm diameter. I’m not disagreeing with you and just recall (for the OP’s information) that you pla ...

British Band Instrument Company, never heard of them before and wonder what their business model is. https://bbico.com/ They might be fine - I don’t know - and they have been in business for a while, but if asked then I’d direct potential customers to someone like John Packer. It’s hard to see how va ...

I used to start my beginner 6th grade tuba students on the Bach 32E. As they grew physically larger, I moved them to a Helleberg 7B. ^^ Good to hear. In my amateur experience Tubas can be played with quite small cups. Provided the lip control is there then bigger cups seem to produce richer sounds ...

I have a new tuba student, just starting 5th grade. He played baritone for a year, and now wants to play the tuba. He is rather small, and the mouthpiece he was given with his school horn seems too big for him ... A Jupiter 24AW, which is about 32 mm diameter. I need to find a smaller diameter mp ...

I like the Wick range and now use a 2L on my EEb Tuba; for me the bigger cup energised the fourth valve range and gave a fuller quality to the sound, but YMMV. This comment gave me an excuse to try a 2L as part of a broad search for mouthpieces that work well with my new Eb tuba (Yamaha YEB-632IIS ...

I didn't know these came with a bit! I was told by a resident of the UK, who is a well known repair person, that these were an American market thing and that they didn’t really see them in England. Could be. I was also told by a young American repair person with lots of “swagger” that these don’t ex ...

In the community band which I play, the repertoire simply does not ever go below F below open BBb. But I practice the privilege tones anyway. Occasionally a selection with a cadential Eb, D, or Db benefits from going down the octave to lock everything in. No, I don't do it every time. I don't do it ...

For the price and apparent condition that was a buy now item. Let’s put it in context; if someone offered you a decent Tuba for that price you wouldn’t think twice about it, yet that Lathe offered a lot more in terms of value … just got to learn how to use it.

As a youth I played one of those and loved it. They were made in high pitch, but mine was converted to standard and served me well. I hope it finds a good home.