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" (re ...

Cool! I always thought the 4345 was a piston horn that sorta looked like the Hirsbrunner 392. Didn’t know they offered a rotary version! They do resemble them (sort-of in the way one of their F tubas appears as if a carelessly-assembled B&S), but the 4345 is smaller than the Hirbrunner it resembles.

I love the "warning contains lead" (or whatever that refers to) thing. The last one of those I sold myself, admittedly I sold it for more but I also spent some time slicking it out and scrounging some nice pistons. A man and his son actually flew in to the local county airport in their airplane and ...

If I didn't already have a really good USA made vintage valve trombone, I would probably be reacting to the King with the classic 'sour grapes' attitude; in other words "the valves are probably shot". :laugh: Seriously, if that instrument is still viable, the band director who surplussed that thing ...

It seems as though I've worked out another trade to get what I I'm seeking.

Thank-you. Yes.



tuba/bass/bass-and-other saxes.

Died at age 40 (meningitis).

That contraption looks like it's going to work quite well, and it makes sense that you can operate that stuff and still move the first slide, because most of the stuff you need for the first slide doesn't involve the low range with those valves. That's pretty darn clever. :thumbsup: :smilie8: covid ...

That contraption looks like it's going to work quite well, and it makes sense that you can operate that stuff and still move the first slide, because most of the stuff you need for the first slide doesn't involve the low range with those valves. That's pretty darn clever. :thumbsup: :smilie8: covid ...

I think there is some kind of unspoken rule about not using terms like "4th band" or 5th band in a school setting, Even 40 years ago when I was in school they were using terms like "wind ensemble" and "concert band" when a school has more than 3 or 4 different band classes (I've seen as many as 5 ...

We aim to please. :eyes: I was typing on a keyboard. "Upright bass" always seems awkward/stilted to me, and using the word "contrabass" - in an audience of wind players - probably automatically makes them think of LeBlanc "paperclip" BB-flat clarinets. "Bull fiddle" just seems to roll off the tongue ...

Three things that always kept me away from these models: - too tall - very awkward/cramping MW 5th valve thumb paddle placement - no comfortable place to rest your arm while slide pulling I suppose these issues could be remedied, but the stars never aligned for me to find one at the right price ...

If someone does use one of those expander tools - which is likely what you will choose to have happen, I would hope that they would do what I do when compelled to use one of them, pick only one of the two inside slide tubes, and render it very subtly barrel-shaped, so it's not made too large on the ...

MiBrassFS wrote: ↑Wed Nov 20, 2024 12:47 pm I’m over wanting to have the biggest tubas as daily drivers, but I sure would like to give one of those RM giants a toot!

Yes. I just used the word "outlier" in another post, but outliers do stimulate our curiosity.

I realize that I'm not young, but just based on what the RM instrument designated as size 6 is - having never played one), I don't view it as something with which I would not choose to play (just as an example the John Williams tuba concerto, or any music which requires strong fronts, as far as hall ...

They can be burnished to fit. They have to have the right stuff and the “right stuff.” I don't claim to be the world's greatest repair guy, but when I burnish tubes to make them larger, I prefer to have more tubing than the piece I'm working (so I've got something to hold onto). I suppose using tha ...

Dennis Bamber brought in a bunch of them. Previously, the Michigan place brought them in, but really really marked them up, and (later) Dennis was only selling them for a modest amount above his cost, which created a price drop and a flood in interest.

The main tuning slide on my most expensive instrument is perfectly aligned, but not loose. It wasn't bad before I shortened the ferrules in order to slightly shorten the instrument, but I guess I couldn't help but dial it in to "zero", when I reassembled it. (Think of 1960s or 1970s built Schilke ...

Unexpectedly, the 6/4 size instruments that they make offer (labeled as "5/4") - in my experience - offer the best intonation of all of their models, particularly if they both have a fifth valve and a number two slide trigger on board. The bell profile of those big tubas is somewhat similar to the ...

We were lucky to have a band. My problem was the music we played. My Junior year we got a new director who gave us good stuff that was not written for wind band. I got to play something other then ump pa. CCC My high school band director had good taste as well. :thumbsup: When I moved on to the ...

The Dubro links on my F tuba are now probably well over thirty years old. They are connected end to end with all-thread, which I bent when I installed that stuff. (Were I not so lazy, I might cover the all-thread with black shrink tubing, but we only care about the sound, right? :laugh: ) Those ...