Speaking of deep dark bass (sort of) -- a friend of mine is in the process of buying the Eb contrabass sarrusophone off Reverb. He is an amateur bassoonist.

My lap does not have a tuning slide.

My NStar came from a sponsored artist, so did my MW F that is now being played in the Pittsburgh symphony, and my first 184 CC "theoretically" was owned and played by Torchinsky. i wish I still had that 184, but my reasons for selling it were not that I thought I could find something better. The ...

That was mentioned in another thread, and it got me to wondering. I noted in years past that my Schmid horn with the Lawson ambronze bell had enormous carrying power, and that the Holton on my left, although it was loud up close, did not carry nearly as well, based on recordings. I've also been told ...

Players who are sponsored by makers will sell instruments if they change sponsors. In that case, the one they are selling is the best example they could get of that model while they were playing it.

And you found this where? I'm guessing you're not telling.

I always figured those stripped messes were re-paints poorly done after accidents that required replacing parts.

Until recently corrected, I was saying byuw-sher (rhymes with "ewww!")
Now it's beesher. but it seems pronunciation varies.

I had similar problems with Cerveny.

Since the question was asked, and since bloke knows I can't let the opportunity go -- You don't play the tuba with your lips, which is what I suspect you are trying to do, with a smidgen of air. Nope, you play the tuba with air, and what you "do with your lips" is make a shape to push humongous ...

Engineer here: find a teacher who actually plays the tuba.

I'm guessing your section leader is TB, and yup.

Look at the Phil Farkas book on embouchures. The best players had the worst embouchures. When the religious fanatics get going on the horn groups about the only correct embouchure on the horn is the 2/3 -1/3 Farkas embouchure, I LOVE to post the picture from the Farkas picture book of successful ...

It may be worth what is being asked, but it is filthy and has leadpipe dents. Nope.

I have a “double buzz.” I am generating two waves, but they are different and out of phase. Sometimes slightly out of phase, sometimes completely out of phase. This results in varying degrees of severity. Any and all are invited to address and explain this phenomenon from your point of view. Not res ...

I left a 4 valve older Alexander tenor tuba at Martin Wilk's shop some time ago. He still has it, as I never followed up with having him start cleaning it up and have kind of forgotten about it. You could ask him what he thinks it's worth and I'd probably sell it. I contacted Mr Wilk and did not ...

This us getting quite funny. I'm with Peterbas -- engineers, due to education and the fact that their mode of thinking drew them to that education, think in a certain way. I just wish I could find a physician who is capable of thinking that way.

I will re-iterate too, just this once (ha) for hopefully some concept of clarity: it is the size of the hole in your face that is what works. If it weren't the size then you wouldn't need lips in the cup doing anything at all, and you could just vary air speed or something like that. Yes there is ...

You're going to end up like the rest of us with a bagged tuba in a collapsable wagon or hand truck. Neener, neener.

Reminds me of my very first encounter with a brass instrument. Neighbor found an old WWII pretty smashed up Army bugle in his attic (this is 1950s) and I wheedled my way into owning it. I had been told "it takes a lot of air to play one of those," so I wrapped my lips around the (totally stuck ...

The only mouthpiece trick I've seen that I liked was making chuffing sounds (like a train) by blowing into it backwards.