So after spending some time on the horn with the Yamaha euph springs I have found that my fingers are happier and the valves are no slower than they were before. But there is not as much difference as I would have thought between the two sets of springs.

Who remembers - 30/40/50 years ago - when teachers/others/nearly everyone was recommending getting some "good strong springs" - so you can play fast ? ...and yes the eastern-German-made tubas springs aren't ridiculous, but (to me) they are quite a bit too strong. =========================...

Yamaha euph springs: https://www.amazon.com/Yamaha-Euphonium-Valve-Springs-Set/dp/B00KIUO4BI I had these in my old piston valve tuba and it really lightened up the action. I basically had the CC version of your tuba -- a PT-20P (B&S 4197) -- so you might find that solution also works for you. T...

Folks - My VMI 3302 (4/4 4 piston, one rotor BBb) is becoming really hard on my fingers, especially the first valve, as I seem to be developing arthritis on the first outer joint. I am not sure if it's from playing this horn or just my age, but it's becoming an issue. I would like to try some spring...

What BBb tuba do you own?

never mind.

... Eb is the more challenging and interesting part, IMHO. I've played both and found just the opposite. Brass band BBb takes real work. Eb seemed to me (in most arrangements) like just a largish euph. As a tuba player, I've always want to support the band from the very bottom. Eb left me very frus...

I've always been curious - with a two-valve bugle, what steps do the valves lower the pitch? Sounds to me that there are going to be some gaps in the notes you can play.

YorkNumber3 wrote: ↑Mon May 09, 2022 9:58 am Looks like the OP found their outlet.

https://reverb.com/shop/gear-outlet-8135

Seems rather pricey to me.

hukedonfonix03 wrote: ↑Mon May 02, 2022 10:18 am I have 2 YBB-105's and 4 YBB-103's left at my home in Tyler, TX. I'm selling them
https://photos.app.goo.gl/8x1UKvu3JBkLxmUj7

Are you willing to ship these? What are you asking for a 103?

I remember when Kenny G was new and getting popular. All my sax students wanted to play out of the side of their mouths.

One thing that has not been mentioned with regard to auditions is keyboard skills. It is the one thing I tell any youngster who shows musical talent and might possibly have aspirations to study music in college. I had been playing piano since 3rd grade so by the time I got to my college tuba auditio...

One bumper, when short enough, allows one of the ball and socket links to hit the rotor shaft, so I'll have to work on that, but otherwise, things are OK. I am aware that Jim Bao valves make some noise and I sleep OK despite this small trial. On my 410 I had to put the ball joint on the other side ...

If your phone is a 5-ish thing then it's battery is probably going to be toast soon anyway. Time to get a new one.

tubamuphone wrote: ↑Tue Mar 01, 2022 11:38 am (snip )Paired with a decent condenser mic and it's a legit field recorder.

JB

What mic do you use?

I too took a long time off, after I got married. I've only been back at it for 5 years or so. When I was in college I was all about the high stuff. Played on a Miraphone 184. I could (then) play as high as anybody. I think it might have been part of being a trumpet player before I took up tuba. But ...

(snip) Band class is a miniature of what’s going on nationwide and worldwide: amazing technology and equipment available to assist in the education of extremely confused children. Tell you what, though, I sure wish I would have had some of that technology when I was in college. I still have PTSD fr...

Where I live school of choice has only resulted in every district building absolutely huge high schools at the expense of the elementaries and middle schools in an attempt to attract students. The inner city district has lost students every year since they built their HS palace. So stupid.

(snip) That having been said, 75 years ago a typical 16-year-old would have been plenty grown-up enough to handle either of those things. One of the things that I loved about my work at the local library was digitizing old yearbooks. When you read the ones from the turn of the last century it becom...

I loved Bassoon class. A few of us in the class were jazzers, and we discovered that you could walk a pretty decent bass line on them. My least favorite class was flute. For the life of me, I could never make a good sound on one. Oboe class was a weird one for me. It always surprised me how little a...