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the elephant wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 5:41 pm Brian, what have you been listening to? Is this about to turn into something humiliating for me?

the elephant wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 9:38 pm Oh… THAT. Okay. Yeah, I uploaded that months ago. I moved it to Private shortly after uploading it because it was more for me than for "listeners". The pitch is bad. It was the very first time that bell had made sounds for probably decades. This was the brat-to-hell BBb 186 that I had to braze shut all those holes and cracks (mostly in the outer branches, but also in the bell flare), and I never took the time to test it as a BBb tuba. Instead, I chopped it to CC as I restored it. I also had to replace the bell garland, which was a challenge for me for various reasons. I wanted to see how it sounded so much that I taped the tuba together with painter's tape and had to hold the leadpipe in place with my hand as I read simple vocalises. My wife walked in and decided to record one of them with no warning. It is not good playing, but for what I was doing it was very informative. And I was suffering from COVID chops pretty badly. I do not think I had touched a tuba in months when I did this, so I did not even bother to warm up because it was going to suck anyway. (For instance, there is little phrasing at all, as I was mostly looking for evenness of tone and intonation, so all the phrases are really mechanical and dry, which bugs me to listen to.)

At some point (probably not any time soon), I will get off my butt and work something up so you can hear these horns I have worked on for so long. None of them are great tubas, but I can't afford "great", so they are as good as I can manage on my salary.

Thanks for the (overly) kind words, Brian.

the elephant wrote: ↑Tue Nov 16, 2021 9:54 pm Joe, the Capital Brass recording might have been this one, which I posted here (well, not here, but you know where) a few years ago. I think I had it in my signature block for a while. It is the Canadian Brass arrangement of "Lookin' Good but Feelin' Bad" (plus drum set) with a hacked-in drum solo and turnaround at the end. I am not sure when this was, but it was before I played with this group permanently. They had used a local HS Band Director for years. This is the MSO's 3rd trumpet playing 1st, the 2nd trumpet playing 2nd, the principal hornist, our bass trombonist on tenor (he is actually a euphonium player), and me, with the principal timpanist on set. The MSO BQ is the principal trumpeter, the same guy on 2nd trumpet (he is trapped on 2nd trumpet, I swear!) the 2nd hornist, the principal trombonist, and me, and no drummer. So this recording is just a different mix of my MSO colleagues. I am fortunate to play with them. (This was played on my Yamaha YFB-621, by the way, and we were doing a recital in Birmingham. This might be from around 2002 or 2003.)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/bo2wduuwc3a41 ... %20Bad.m4a