How do you "unvent" pistons?? Fill the hole with solder??

Isn't this the tuba you've been playing with Scioto Valley? Did you find something else?

EDIT: Never mind I should learn to read... you answered my question in your ad.

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Have you tried just carefully bending it back???? If you are worried about trying it you friendly neighborhood brass guy should be able to do it for cheap, and replace your corks and felts too.

Oh man.. If I didn't get a good deal on a Wessex compensating baritone, I would be all over this. Frankenhorns fit my style so much better than shiny Chinese instruments.

I've been having a lot of success with my Sellmansberger Solo on my Holton-ish medium Eb.. 32.3mm rim and #2 shank seen to work best on that particular one for me. The small bore reacts week to the slightly more open throat.

Sorry I didn't have an answer but I am going to piggy back on this question with a related one...

What is the bare minimum set of tools to handle most dentwork? Neglecting things like trombone handslide mandrels and valve casing mandrels. If you goal was to bang debts out of bells, bugles and ...

Several decades ago, I mostly just played (other than all the other types of gigs but most of us play) in this traditiona... (oh to hell with that pretentious bu11sh!t) DIXIELAND band (a hell of a good one, whereby it sounded like we were playing charts, but we didn't have any charts) and we had a ...

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My old Holton BBb always had the main slide out about an inch or so... until I got a nice ding in the main bugle right after it exits the valve block.. Now it's noticeably flat.. and I have the slide all the way in even on hot don't days. The worn valves don't help either. I've day i'll find s cheap ...

I would like to have an Eb flugelhorn or Kuhlohorn fall into my possession. Not enough to actually pay real money for one.. but rather a $100 thrift store or mislabeled auction find. Even one of the DEG/Dynasty Eb alto cornet would be cool too.

I also would like a Getzen bass trumpet... those ...

Ok doing the typical professor thing and wildly overstepping my specific area of knowledge.. but I've been reading Arthur Benade's work on brass instruments. He wrote a lot of stuff that isn't on his textbook "Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics"

He stressed frequently the leadpipe and mouthpiece ...

... History scholars (40 and 50-year-olds who want tell us how things were 60 and 70 years ago) tell us there's much less crime and much more respect for our fellow man, today, as well as much less pissing on silver sousaphones today, I suppose. :eyes:




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- I rarely play 1&2 or 1&3 valve combos unless I already have one of those valves down, or maybe unless I think the combo will give me a sharper note than a single valve, like 1&2 instead of 3 for B natural on top of the staff. On a compensating horn, that should never be the case.



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To each their own, but - me personally - I'm not investing hundreds of hours in a tuba build whereby I'm going to have to end up doing those sorts of things.


Because for me the build is the fun. I don't spend time on my workshop too pay the bills. It is a hobby, and I can spend a couple of ...

The FIeld museum is one of my favorite places int he world to visit. I like it because it is mostly still an old school museum where you read the little tag and look at what is in the case.

I have a fulls set of the Wax Mold Dinosaurs.. both the vintage ones and the newer designs

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But then it is either pointing at me or my tuba... neither is ideal in my book. Can you make it so it points at the director?

I saw the ad on facebook last week and had assumed this was sold by now!

I have a dream project of making a 5-valve rotary 20J... still in BBb. Of course if I am doing that I would have to get all the dents out of it first...