P.S.: I have a PT50+ with enlarged shank done by a professional local workshop which also works quite well. But I do not need it anymore as I have both the Szentpali and the AMH. Kelly Mouthpieces makes a mouthpiece similar to the PT50, and they have shank options going up to Kaiser. https://www ...

Also, none of these so-called experts at packing tubas know a damn thing about packing tubas, and - even if tubas are packed as well as anyone could ever hope - the reality is that UPS and FedEx have conveyor belts, common carriers have forklifts, airlines have 15 feet high drop-offs, and the ...

MiBrassFS wrote: ↑Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:25 pm Been there quite a while… what that means? Dunno.

People don't want da lidl toobahs, dey want da yuge toobahs!

I had several of these as lapel pins in the 80s. None were this "left hand version"

I heard this on the way to work this morning. Some tasty tuba playing early in the audio interview! Plus, he got to play keys on "Jump"
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/02/10/ ... oft-power/

Drool...
I love the location of the 4th valve slide, for 2-4 and low register combinations.

Email sent. Here is a picture of me with one circa 7th or 8th grade (1984-1985):

As seen below, most of the typically-written tuba range is between 2c and 2c tuned flat on typical pianos: https://i.imgur.com/y0M0lUa.png Ah yes, stretch tuning. Part of what makes a piano sound so good. I had the misfortune of playing a couple years with a bari sax player who consistently played ...

I’m not sure why there’s such a stigma with main slide gadgets, but that seems to be the most logical solution,but the slide has to be long enough and the horn needs to be significantly sharp with main slide all the way in. Fred Marzan had a GREAT idea about this many decades ago. Just put the main ...

Why is it that the majority of tubas made (and still being made) have intonation that would be considered unacceptable on nearly any other instrument? I'm not talking about the geometric vs. arithmetic progression that comes from combining valves (ie 123 being sharp when 1, 2 and 3 are individually ...

Almost reminds me of the Rudy Meinl 5th valve.

Why does that tuba look happy to see me?



I would hate to think of the factory nickname given to that horn if it came with that 5th valve configuration stock

Thanks, I got the word today it was in new hands. It definitely wasn't a foghorn but had a lot of color and projection in the sound.
It is with very mixed feelings that it sold, but there is a season for everything.

I saved 100% on Black Friday!

(I didn't buy anything.)

Doug Yeo has editions of some of the cello suites for bass trombone that lay well on F tuba. https://www.yeodoug.com/resources/faq/faq_text/bachsuites.html Roger Bobo put out a book for Bach on tuba that works well on bass or contrabass tuba from what I can remember. https://www.grothmusic.com/p ...

Cerveny was putting a kaiser bore quint valve on their little F tubas decades ago. Almost making it a double tuba in a sense.

The horn is at Baltimore Brass, and they are having their Black Friday / Small Business Saturday sale!

Warburton Neilan, made in the late 90s.
Roughly an AJ mouthpiece with a C4 rim in a heavyweight brass soupcan configuration.

Bump for bottom line price cut. Given the repairs that BBC did, I cannot go below this number.
The horn may not be cosmetically perfect, but it is a player!

Flat freakin' broke and they have decent pitch and make a solid sound in the right hands. I am completely tubaless since this weekend and have two concerts coming up but may be able to borrow one. Same reason why my 53rd birthday present to myself was a used Vostok Amphibia and not a Rolex ...