I remember every time I have tried the Miraphone 281 Bruckner CC, I have stated that if I didn’t know it was a rotor horn (as in someone else pressing the valves), I would assume it was a Miraphone 1291. Part of it is good horn design. It seems like some older models have taken rotors off of a c ...

I'll throw an oddball choice out there: Church Windows I was going to bring this up and you beat me. I wanted to work this excerpt during my DMA (especially after hearing the Cincinnati Symphony recording over and over and having played a gig with Pete Norton)—my professor wanted to teach it too a ...

Over the past two weeks, I very curiously watched a package get sent to me from Memphis, almost all the way up to me (as far as the Southern CT regional processing center, about an hour away), and then make its way back to Memphis, where it is currently being bounced around various processing ...

Summer of 2007 or 2008 I was living with another family member (last name same as mine), and towards the end of the summer , I was convinced to buy a GW Alan Baer mouthpiece. It was made for my horn and seemed better than the PT 50+ I was getting tired of. After a few days of it showing delivered, I ...

Thank you. Wow. Searching these names on Google shows one is a college professor, one won the Fort Wayne Symphony in October, one won Palm Beach Philharmonic. Being a freshman I didn’t realize festivals were this competitive. Guess I’ll have to look at workshops instead for now lol :tuba: Doesn’t me ...

This is what Aaron Tindall shared on social media which will answer several (congrats to his studio!). BIG congratulations to all of these students (current and former) who I have the privilege to work with. Their summers are looking to be quite exciting! Juan Enrique Alonso (Frost Alum-AD)- Aspen ...

Perhaps the following might assist Three Valves. Etude number 5 in the “43 Bel Canto Studies” compiled and edited by Chester Roberts is in D major, and seems to match what you describe. Number 6 in the well-know Joanne Rochut collection of the Bordogni “Melodious Etudes for Trombone, vol I” is the s ...

I've posted incessantly about my big B-flat rotary tuba that Miraphone made perhaps 10 - 12 years ago. The bell is the same shape as all of the York knockoffs (certainly the same shape as the Holton 345 bells), but the rest of it is basically a German kaiser design with a German kaiser bore in the ...

A bit before my time--but how many times did orchestras have guest conductors that would leave their home orchestra and tour? I do think orchestras do have some of those elements left--like the "tough" Pittsburgh sound, but it has diminished. The orchestras I have played with mainly work on getting ...

I do not have the answer, but I will tag @tindalltuba.

I was telling a student about one of my favorite recordings and sent to them to listen to (LA Phil Planets under Zubin Mehta) and have been on a kick of listening to orchestral recordings the past couple of days (out of all honesty, I don't listen to as much music anymore, as I can't focus or enjoy ...

Jacob’s did tailor the message to every student, and from what I’ve gotten out of it, he was all about doing everything to get the student to “sing” on the tuba as if no physical restrictions, letting the mind overpower the instrument, and to bring out the best, most confident aspects, of every stude ...

I find lip slurs and lip trills to be much harder on the bigger horns. That’s why I like doing them. I do a bit of teaching to trombones and when going through some of their rep with them and finding lip slurs instead of the dah tongue, I point out how easy it should be for them if they work their l ...

bloke wrote: ↑Fri Mar 14, 2025 8:18 pm But James, what is your routine?

I know you hate the term.

I did a shorter one, different one today by Phil Sinder, that focused on lyrical playing and musical phrasing.

I studied with Roger Rocco, the longest studying student of Jacobs. He emphasized no mechanics and the focus on music and the singing on the tuba. Another long studying student of Jacobs I did a degree with was all about musical storytelling and forgetting what mechanical is happening. Watch Michael ...

For the iPad, if you’re looking to be a professional, get the iPad Pro, 13”. I would recommend the 2TB one since some of those file size scan very large to be readable. The nano-texture glass I hope is enough to keep you from the glare on stage. I would recommend the cellular option for when you hav ...

I mentioned this in a now locked iPad thread, but one of my biggest issues is having to pay for the device, and more importantly, the app to read music. I grew up very poor (as I say, I survive now), and I remember my father did not want me in band. I started on trumpet, and one of the things we had ...

tablet with 10x14 screen, 10-year 1-time charge, absolutely unbreakable, write on with a lead pencil, $9 purchase price actually "wins", but whatever. What tablet is this? Does it guarantee that the reader doesn’t need software updates to work? Major issue with my original iPad right now. Apple m ...

I’ve mentioned this before about an app I used to work through a new routine wasn’t supported any longer, as it had audio playbacks, and it got me thinking of this. Unless the music is physically stored on this device, it’s probably uploaded from a cloud server, and if it goes down… well I would put ...

No, outdoor gigs would not be a no-go. Production teams have magically figured out how to operate all of their equipment wirelessly for years, so it is not a stretch of the imagination for an orchestra to figure it out. An orchestra could create a local network for their tablets through a data hub ...