I could care less about making $ off of it, to be honest, but if it can help someone out I figure it's worth a little time out in the garage messing with power tools. If I don't attach value to it, then hopefully whomever wants the stuff won't feel the need to argue about what they end up with. Of ...

Anyone need parts from a crappy Yamaha hard case before it goes to the landfill? Some of the latches are original (stamped yamaha) while others are probably replacements. Wheels are there and roll. Cover shipping and I'll put whatever pieces you want in a small USPS flat-rate box and send them your ...

Heavy_Metal wrote: ↑Sun Nov 17, 2024 10:39 pm Not on FB, is the ad still up?

Looks like it's gone.

Took this one out yesterday to finally see what we bought. It plays - all the rotors move fine, linkage is noisy as anything though. Plenty of dents in the main branches, nothing horrible though. Few braces separated/missing. I think the bell has been buffed enough times that none of the factory ...

Hi Tyler do you have a forward facing bell that you wanna part with or know of anyone that might ? Cheers Paul When I was in Baltimore Brass yesterday I noticed they have a nice King forward facing bell out in the showroom - $300 as I recall. Might be worth reaching out to them to see if they can ...

About $300 I think.

My wife won the auction on this one... We'll see what shape it is when we actually take possession of it. Maybe a player, maybe it ends up next to the 20J with no valves...

@travisd How's the tactile response on the Flic button? With the Flic button being designed for a finger-press, it'd be nice to have a click feedback so that you know you've pressed it fully and have it be precise enough that you don't have to worry about feathering it too lightly. Flic buttons are ...

What button did you find? That was my first thought, since I would not need to worry about my foot slipping off a pedal, but didn't find anything. [...] Oh, and I'd ideally want a switch that (like a trigger) has two positions, so that backing up is possible in case of an "oops!" as well I'm using ...

I got back into playing a few years ago (community band stuff, after years of basically just tubaxmas/homecoming type playing). I switched to a tablet because I had one, and it seemed like a good idea., What I found is that it has enabled me to be MUCH better than I ever was about marking up my ...

A long time ago I had one of the “Baltimore Brass” style of wooden stand where you rest the tuba on its bell but it’s held in place by the wood and it’s carpeted to protect the bell edge. It was a copy somebody made, not the real Baltimore Brass. Nevertheless, it worked like a charm and I wish I sti ...

I though the current Mirphone bags have a carbon fiber (fibre?) bell protector. It's mentioned in some of the retailer adds that I just googled, no mentions of it at all on MIraphone's site that I can see though. The lid of my bad is pretty light, and pretty stiff, but I'm not tearing it apart to ...

I got my MIraphone bag (For my Mack horn) from @kingrob76 who as I recall bought it direct from the old country originally. Perhaps he can elaborate on how that worked....

Supposedly they populated the maps with last years events. This years info is still being collected.

I believe I got this image from another thread here, but seems appropriate.

Mac Mini's a are relatively cheap - under $600 for a base spec new one. Put a $5 HDMI "virtual" screen dongle on it, and you can access it from other macs on the local network via screen sharing with pretty good performance. (I screen share into my personal Mini from my work laptop -- over the local ...

Wonder what the weight difference is vs a fiberglass/plastic King bell? Maybe just for the cool factor alone...

OT: This reminds me of seeing the tuba god Tom Lyckberg come in to the USMB band hall after a 3-week vacation, The first mouthpiece that I actually owned came from Tom Lyckberg, via another USMC guy (Luke Spiros) that I had come to know via the computer BBS scene at the time. A then-new Conn 2 that ...

We had the 80's fiberglass King sousa that we've been dragging around for decades without a case overhauled last year. Took out a bunch of dents in the upper bows that get pushed in by laying the hown down "bell first", and replaced a valve that had a very loose stem...and damn if the thing doesn't ...

In most industries, having to pay an appliction fee for a job is seen as a sure sign of a scam... Is that kind of thing normal in the music biz?