Re: lathe I totally agree. Mine is a Rockwell wood lathe with a metal working tool rest/xy slide thingy that Rockwell offered for them. I’m sure it’s not nearly as accurate as yours but… I had a ferrule that needed to be just a hair bigger. Chucked it up and opened it up just one hair. Perfect fit. S ...

Is there anyone driving past Sacramento, CA on their way to SoCal and have room for a tuba case? If so, I'd cover your fuel bill (unless you're pulling a 30 foot travel trailer, in which case I'll make a solid contribution) and can meet you just about anywhere in SoCal. If this might be a ...

Nice choice of instrument, Mark. Thank you for taking the time to post these every Monday night/Tuesday.

That one was a high/low pitch I believe. The (only) low pitch were about 32” tall.

Thank you again!

I don’t have an answer about the bell swap.

But

I do have a question.

Can you describe your York 714 please (ie number of valves, front or top action, recording or upright bell (diameter?) please? A picture would be quite helpful?

I haven’t heard of a 714, hence my curiosity.

There was someone here (or there…) that ordered, received, and shared about some replacement linkages, paddles, etc. from them. To me, they looked nothing like what I had ever seen on any of their instruments I’d ever seen. So, what? I don’t know. A pattern? Just thought it was weird. bort2.0 ???

I’m sorry to ask but are those all frisbees in the background of the third picture? If so, that must be the world’s largest frisbee collection!

I’ve never played an 822 F but I sure would like to. ie not a totally off topic post

I say, run it with what you've got, then when the larger rotor comes, put that on. See which plays better.

Heck keep both of them on!

BramJ wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 12:12 pm

bloke wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 9:46 am If you don't believe me, I could just as easily get AI to make a fake picture of a no-F-attachment Bach 50.

Are you sure?

Looks fine to me...

The real question is:

Forget the tuba, how on earth do you fit in a Miata?

Oh goodness.

You need a no cooties policy.

Get well soon!

I have a solution (maybe even THE solution): Wait for it For those that want to use an iPad/tablet/Chomebook, please do so. For those that don't want to use one, please do not. I bought a used iPad pro (larger) that I use for one group that has about 120 pieces that get pulled up in seemingly random ...

Speaking of tympanists…

What about playing near an enthusiastic tympanist and feeling their drum strikes through the air column right up to my lips?

I don't know the dimensions of that horn. Perhaps you could give us the dimensions of your horn so we don't have to go look them up.

Listed as MTS 1209, but it's a big Eastman case, in Rochester, NY

Can't beat $59

https://rochester.craigslist.org/msg/d/ ... 88499.html

Ah, good eye @arpthark , but not good enough


I scribed an old s-arm onto a piece of brass and also made a smaller s-arm to go out to the thumb ‘cylinder’.

Oh, and I put two smaller, more svelte miniball ends on for the linkage since that picture was taken.

I think these little 15” bell Ebs play pretty well, certainly better than the Monsters, but I wouldn’t pay anywhere near that much. This one is high pitch.


Here is mine that is a mash up of high pitch bugle, low pitch bell and King valves and tubing.

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Mar 03, 2025 6:02 am It's fun and interesting to drop the pitch of any tuba by a semitone and then to play through familiar passages at their correct pitch levels to discover how it affects them.

When I read about the D crook, I thought of you and the extensions you’ve made.

Mirafone wasn’t the first to offer crooks to change the key of a tuba (those funky CC to BBb slide thingies). While looking at a 1916-1917 York catalog I see they offered a crook to change their Eb tuba to D (doesn’t say if it’s for their Medium or Monster). I’m sure there were other manufacturers do ...

Very nice!

As Bloke said, finger button is Reynolds. The rest may be Frankenpiston (ie I have no idea).