I taped together four "furniture scoot pads" to put under the center of my stand, which requires several gorillas to tighten the wing nut tight enough so that it does not sink. I also bought the smallest possible locking pliers to tighten (and loosen) that nut with. I wonder if bloke's piano bench ...

Jealous of the buyer, phooey. Do these rotary F cimbos have the same low range stuffiness that rotary F tubas have?

(I used to have a Moto Guzzi V twin, which also has pretty loud valves when properly adjusted. Moto Guzzi riders' motto was, "loud valves save lives!") Ok, you started the off topic. I'd have been more than happy to race you on my bought-new 1971 Kawasaki three cylinder 500. Heh. I got 15k miles on ...

I would go for a rotary bass tbone cimbasso, but not a piston because I stopped trying to do pistons. I can't even work a cornet with pistons, just feels awkward to this violinist / hornist. I would have at one point headed into bass tbone, and I even bought one, but it was clearly out of my reach ...

Funny, even though I need nothing at this point in time, I would still be attracted to a cimbasso in tenor Bb, just because. Whoever is stuck selling my stuff after I leave the planet is going to have quite a task. I keep telling people you can never have too many tubas. They walk into my living ...

Although it does appear to be in really good shape, wasn't the winning bid on the high side?

I think this is a regional problem, because I send checks locally quite often without a problem. Actually, never a problem the whole time I've lived here. I have noted that there are places reported here where the US mail carriers are not in the same category as those here, who have done a splendid ...

I continue to note that those were / are natural players will continue to disparage the things people have to do to learn, who are not natural players. What it reminds me of -- going quite far back, a time in first grade where I was assigned the task of teaching a fellow student his colors -- and my ...

Are hard copies of recordings even sold in brick-and-mortar stores, today? "Budget" classical recordings of decades ago...labels such as Angel and Seraphim, yes? I doubt it. I do see CDs for 50 cents in thrift stores though. Everything is streamed now, and it is a huge loss. I have probably 200 CDs ...

They got it back pretty fast --- why someone would pick on that site is beyond me. But I'm glad the mess was temporary. When everything is bots the bots just go around doing bot things, and some of them are humans.

Handle on my violin case kept breaking too, and that weighs a whole lot less than a tuba case. I took some rope and made enough loops to have a handle, and that lasted way longer than the commercial ones.

A friend who passed a couple weeks ago had a few tubas, one of which was an Alex F. After we get them evaluated and any fixing done, they will be showing up here in the FS section. I'll be handling the go-between. I don't know what there is in addition to the Alex.

I played one of those way back when I was thinking about tuba, tried to buy it (local owner had it consigned on ebay) but the consignment person refused to let it go. I remember thinking "I could play this thing." If I were in the market for an F -- These are nearly as big as a 6/4 CC… are you sure ...

I played one of those way back when I was thinking about tuba, tried to buy it (local owner had it consigned on ebay) but the consignment person refused to let it go. I remember thinking "I could play this thing." If I were in the market for an F --

Seller is a band director and unable to demonstrate tuning via zoom. One of those could be horrible or not so bad.

Cool -- I guess she likes jazzy stuff. Funny the two things I noted -- she is not very big, based on how big the horn looks, and, heh, if she ever takes up tuba you're going to have to find a way to get that leadpipe angle the way she has it for horn --- angling down, which I am (hmm) pretty ...

I still have an old Humes and Berg metal mute that I bought when they were $80, and it fits the NStar. The plywood one might be easier for me to hoist, or it might not -- but it's an interesting idea for a Hagen mute.

There can be / is distinct conductor difference too. I don't remember how long ago, but here in Tucson we had Silverstein come and do the Beethoven violin concerto and he also conducted the orchestra for a Beethoven symphony. Our regular conductor did the other half of the program. The strings ...

I just saw a news blurb recently that said that Gen something-or-other was going after the trades instead of the college education. There may be hope yet. After I found I could do nothing with a college degree in music that I couldn't also do without a college degree in music, I went back and got a ...

What I've been aware of is horn sections, where they want everyone to have the same model of instrument so they all sound alike. One of my favorite recordings to listen to is Grand Canyon Suite by Cincinnatti -- where you can TELL when the 2nd horn comes in in those passages were the solo is passed ...