Adams Sousaphones

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I found 2 more of these things at another high school. One has already had the dreaded mouthpipe twist and brace failure. Repairable, but this is not a good beginning of life for the instrument

I’m curious where these things are coming from. It would not surprise me, at this rate, that I see 2 or more by the end of summer.

No model and no design is impervious to this, and it's a plague that has happened since the time I went to school. I believe it's related to young scholars only dealing in the synthetic world and not the real world, and they are not experienced enough in the real world to understand that not loosening a tension screw will cause soft brass to twist and bend. I might also relate the epic denting that has occurred to sousaphones since the time I matriculated to the same thing: young people living in an eWorld rather than the real world. Of course, a bunch of inhalation of burning cannabis can certainly be a contributory factor, as well as the lack of parenting and the lack of paddlings.