Besides using a stand, how does one raise a tuba to be better aligned for playing? When I place it on my legs, it slips frequently and is really too high to play. When I sit it between my legs on a chair, it’s too low and requires me to crunch forward to play it. A three or four inch foam block w ...

I don’t see that I can reply to specific users here, but thanks for the insights. I have long thought the same thing that there is something physically causing this issue. I’ll have to look into that. When I remove the rear rotor cap, the alignment marks seem to be correct. 1+3 valves do not help, ne ...

It’s my very first post here, so I hope it’s in the right place. I simply cannot play a first valve C in the staff without warbling. I just cannot center the pitch well. I’ve never been able to. Do some horns have idiosyncrasies that make some pitches harder to nail? I’m playing on a Meinl Weston 25 ...