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Grumpikins wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 4:08 pm You guy have me wondering if I should change the lead pipe on my 2145....

However, I have no complaints about it since I had the reciever angle modified so that I dont hurt my neck playing it anymore.

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bort2.0 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 6:10 pm Also, thinking back to the GR41, I think that tuba really has a lot to offer. It played very easily, and could really be made to sound huge when you wanted it to be huge. Surprisingly so.

The thing that I didn't like, or didn't understand so well at first, was that this tuba really more than any other that I've had required a large space for the sound to fully develop and kind of makes sense. That is, when I would play at home, in a small room it kind of sucked. I thought the sound was kind of uninteresting, pinched, and especially when you're pushing it hard, not all that interesting to listen to. Sort of like the all-star team of crap sounds that you hear on bad YouTube videos.

Totally different experience in large hall or even outdoors. It was a wonderful sound, very full, very rich, and projected like crazy. I didn't own that tuba for all that long, but did use it for a few things. Pretty sure I used it for a tuba Christmas, and it had that sort of feeling to it that if I wanted to bury the ensemble and make sure that I was heard above all else, or rather under all else, this was going to oblige and make it happen.

As always, is it the tuba or the player? Maybe the obnoxious loudness is just me. But I think the tuba at least helped to facilitate that. I also think that it had all the good things going for it, in that it did not need to be all loud all the time, and was really a nice sweet sound otherwise..

It was kind of a blip on the radar in terms of tubas for me, not because I didn't like it, but because the better opportunity came around for something that was a better match for me. Also, I think it was something that I've come to appreciate more since it's been gone, then when I actually had it.

Unfortunately, I doubt that I'll ever own another one. or at least, not for quite a while until they become really really old and people sell them for cheap.

The one that I bought, was an excellent shape, and I bought it really cheap. I think I sold it for a little less, too.

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 9:33 am That model featuring no upward oriented fourth slide is a noticeable thing, but I'm not sure how necessary that is. I move that slide for one very low pitch on one of my instruments, and - with another - I almost never move it. Circling back to the first sentence: that pitch being double low E flat, I almost never move that one either.
Years ago, I studied with a very high profile teacher who moved that slide a whole bunch. It was fine with me that they did that, but it seemed to me that it was a bunch of stuff to do that could be done other ways with smaller body movements.
How many rotary valve tubas feature a 4th valve slide up at the player's top left? (Actually, mine does, but not many.)

TheHatTuba wrote: ↑Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:32 am MW Bill Bell