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Has anyone tried this tuning/performance aid on tuba. A little pricey for
a small piece of metal and a couple of hair bands, but does it really work?

https://www.lefreque.com/

It is 100% snake oil. Do not buy it. We used to make fun of it here all the time, along with other items designed to relieve musicians of their money.

http://forums.chisham.com/viewtopic.php ... one+bridge

I asked years ago, not sure how much of that discussion survived the purge.

I saw these on display at Midwest later and a tuba player endorsing artist had one on his fourth slide. Sometimes exhibitors will take a credit card/driver's license to test their products on the floor. Not so in this case

the elephant wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:21 am It is 100% snake oil. Do not buy it. We used to make fun of it here all the time, along with other items designed to relieve musicians of their money.

The truth.

There’s no meaningful physics behind this product.

jtuba wrote: ↑Thu Jan 13, 2022 10:35 amSometimes exhibitors will take a credit card/driver's license to test their products on the floor. Not so in this case

And that says all we need to know. Thanks for sharing that.

I've heard a lot of people play really well without it.

I've, in fact, heard some of the artists on their website play really well without it. So I am sure that they sound just as good with it. I note they provide no videos of back-to-back excerpts of their artists with and without their magic widget.

Who – other than myself – remembers “pocket rocket”?

I was referring to that, specifically ("other items"), in my first post. What a stupid idea. Some playerds actually bought them, too. OMG…

I was at a masterclass once when the instructor reminisced about a competitor to the BERP that he and some colleagues thought up: the Forced Air Resistance Tube.

I would buy that.