… turning a piano bench sideways… I have to have the horn elevated to at least the height of the top of my thigh. Setting it on a chair (or bench) surface places the mouthpiece about half a foot below my jaw. … the 2'x1' piano bench that turned to 90°… My 340 pounds would fold one of those in half a ...

I have never been able to use playing stands because they are all too short for me. I have to stoop way over to reach down to the mouthpiece. When they first came out (1999 or so?) I bought a BBC stand from Dave on the phone. I still have it, essentially brand new and unused, because after chatting ...

I have been working on how to set up a lever for the 6th on this tuba. I have several ideas, all being in front of or behind the 1st slide. On the Kurath, the 5th and 6th levers are horizontal and behind the 1st slide. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-RSKqQjD/0 ...

I picked one up at Family Dollar around the corner.

Great prices.

HEY, KIDS, the "word of the day" is:

BELLCRANK

Heartbreaking…

Here is mine. The "acorn" nuts thread up to the lever rack, and the hinge rod does not extend out into space but ends at the nut. Yours extends way out into space.

It is the long steel rod that the four levers turn on. The one in the photo is a good bit longer than it should be. I have noted that my replacement ones are too long, I guess so you can thread them to the right length and trim them to fit. Not sure. But from the factory they are not longer than ...

For $6500 plus a grand or two in dent and repair work, someone could have a VERY nice Swiss-made York copy and still be under the price of an Eastman… Just sayin’… I'd buy a 6/4 Hirsbrunner for that price, given the condition and unknown key. However, it is inexpensive enough to make me worry about ...

I am certain the seller marked it as a BBb by mistake. This happens on eBay all the time when a shop flips a horn.

There is a reason there is a book called "Learn to Play the Instruments You Service"…

The axle hinge rod is too long. This looks like a rebuild by someone who did what looks to be a very decent relacquer. These econo-overhaul jobbers tend to go a little crazy with the buffer, so perhaps the loto was badly damaged by this sort of ham-handedness, and it was decided to sand or buff the ...

Miraphone replacement bells have always had a logo. They only lack a serial number. Horns made in the last couple of decades also lack engraving on the Kranz. However, this is definitely something made in Waldkraiburg. Perhaps the bell was replaced and the logo was (for whatever weird reason ...

bloke wrote: ↑Thu Mar 27, 2025 8:50 am1270

A.D. or B.C.?

Oh, and germane to this thread, I use the Snedecor book every day on the CC and the F, and it is one of my on-stage warm-up books I use before rehearsals after my hour-long commute. I love about half of the book and detest the other half. I think I actually work on seven or eight of them and ignore ...

This is why I have been fooling around with the idea of building an additional valve section (keeping the one I have, too) for my Holton. (Hold up on the eye-rolling for just a minute, please.) I played some ridiculous BAT about 30 years ago (a Martin, maybe?) with a .687-ish" bore. It was the ...

The M4x0.7 is coarser than the Miraphone screw. The Miraphone screw has the finer threads. I was wondering whether M4x0.5 (fine threads - and hard to source) might be the answer, and whether 8-36 might be an okay sub, but it sounds like 8-36 and M4x0.7 are about the same. I will email Eva tomorrow ...

Could they be UNF 8-36 threads????????

This is one of those unfortunate ASAP requests.

TIA for any help.

Well, I'm too dang sick to be blowing into my horn, so I don't go making myself sick again and again. I have to remove the leadpipe and clean it out before I practice again. Broughton is fast approaching, and I don't need this sort of crapola right now. So because I can't just sit around on my butt ...