Meinl-Weston/Melton model 54½50...??

[bloke]

In a few days, I'll have some inside/outside tubing (two pairs of sizes, obviously) to extend my main tuning slide (on my model 5450) by a total of 11 inches or so...

...lengthening it to a B♮ tuba.

Of course, this is just a couple of extensions, and nothing that can't be undone in a matter of seconds.

I just thought it might be fun to try a few low sharp-key orchestral excerpts on TRULY "an instrument that MIGHT?? play better in sharp keys".

I'll post in this thread about it later...

[York-aholic]

Dare I ask what you’ve been drinking and in what quantities?

I might just want to stop by and join you!

[bloke]

I would just like to see what the intonation characteristics are like, and - if “good“ - I’d like to run through a handful of low-tessitura sharp-keys excerpts, and see what it’s like to play them while mashing down fewer buttons.

[York-aholic]

Understood. It will be interesting to see what happens. As you say, quite easy mod to make the extenders.

I look forward to hearing what a foot of cylindrical tubing does. I’ve had a couple of old horns with extenders to bring a high pitch horn down to low pitch (less tubing obviously) but noticed no real difference in intonation or blow.

Less finger gymnastics would probably be nice.

[bloke]

The prospect of playing “Der Walkürenritt” In the equivalent of “C Major on a C instrument” is somewhat a alluring.

As far as the additional cylindrical tubing in the main slide is concerned, most (all...??) of the fingerings to play those passages without it add that much additional cylindrical tubing, anyway.

[York-aholic]

As far as the additional cylindrical tubing in the main slide is concerned, most (all...??) of the fingerings to play those passages without it add that much additional cylindrical tubing, anyway.

I suppose that should have occurred to me…

[bloke]

I’ve heard that it’s a lot easier to memorize textbooks than to think.