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For example, at sea level, at approximately 70* farenheit, sound waves propagate (travel is not a good word, since a sound wave is actually a series of compressions and rarefactions) at about 1,115 feet per second. The pitch of open BBb (not pedal) is @ 29 Hertz. So 1,115/29 is about 38 feet ...

What instruments are meant to be depicted in this engraving of a Beethoven symphony? Predates Wieprecht by 10 years and it seems unlikely anyone shoehorned tubas into Beethoven 9 back then...

Engraving is at 0:53 in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul1sdAR8ICw&t=53

edit: and again at ...

when transposing parts to a third or whatnot, the slurs didn't maintain well.

Also, doing edits and realizing if I do a random click when moving scores, it is causing errors galore that I didn't enter. I will try Dorico and report back.


For positioning issues, musescore is definitely set up ...

- You've got to format a score in a certain way so that when Musescore reformats something and it pushes notes/system around everything can jump in such a way that you lose your place. The automatic format functions make it a bit squirrelly sometimes.
- if you want to scale up or down an entire ...

There's a guy working on a physically-based audio simulator to recreate engine sounds (primarily for racing simulations, but possibly for electric sports cars that currently use tinny recordings). It includes air temperature and density as those are obviously pretty important to the way an engine ...

1.) Visit Mighty Quinn and demo the instruments they have there. They have a great selection that can narrow down what you like or don't like about an instrument. Don't buy a tuba without playing it first.

2.) Contact the tuba professor or band director at your college and find out what they have ...

I found that for false tones on horns that don't want to play nice that I have to lighten the mouthpiece pressure basically to 0 and play like a bass trombone-shaped buzz. Even if the horn doesn't want to resonate nicely with your face you can get some beef to come out that way

The 836 has been touted as a do it all tuba and it is certainly nimble enough to achieve that title, as long as you have the skill to wrangle it. It's also got a pretty big sound that is not suitable for some situations without a lot of walking on eggshells by the player.

The 834 feels a little ...

The famously apolitical tubaforum.net strikes again

(apolitical unless it's bloke pushing misinformation with 0 consequences, that is)

Kids assume they'll need to buy and learn a CC eventually to make it in the big leagues, and haven't it beaten into them yet how hard that actually is. If you're gonna buy a tuba, might as well invest in one that you're going to keep for your career.

Nevermind the fact that 90% of high schoolers ...

If it was written before 1870 or it's French, play as written. If it's written after 2010 and it's American, play as written. If it sounds bad, tell the conductor to complain to the composers.

We also have some stinky sulfur smelling milky looking stuff (water-based)...
Every swipe instantly turns black to white on a silver plated tuba. Pretty soon, the whole thing is white, and then all you have to do is go over it with a high grade silver polishing cloth and turn white into shiny ...

There's a healthy resale market for these so you can either find one to trial/borrow from a seller or make most of your cash back if you buy and don't like

The Yamaha 621 is the pro version of Yamahas 3/4 size. Very easy to play, 4 valves with good tuning. Big sound when you really push it but doesn't take a lot of air to get going. I'd recommend that over anything else, if you like the sound of the 103.

Reading through this post... is there ANYTHING about Vitamin E, or did someone's AI just spit out random nonsense?


I mentioned vitamin E for someone's lip troubles, bloke replied to it with a modified title and inadvertently changed the thread title as well. It stayed that way after he deleted ...

It's probably important to consider the difference between solo and ensemble playing too. A tenor player can probably get around on a bass ensemble part pretty well, but bass solo rep is on another level that I would consider qualifies as a separate area of study.

Someone mentioned lead trumpet vs ...

1 Ton Tommy wrote: Sun Mar 15, 2026 4:34 pm Playing outdoors in the wind the day before I can't do much about; I didn't book the gig.

Crack open a vitamin E capsule and spread the goo on your lips when you go to bed after getting wind-burned, sunburned, or generally overplaying - works wonders for recovery

Thank you so much for your kind words! As a trumpet player, I had absolutely no idea if it was good or not.... I really like the high register of the tuba, and that's what I most want to develop.

There's one thing that I still can't believe. NOBODY asked me which mouthpiece I'm using hahahahah ...

Definitely not the overwhelming majority, but we did touch Cowboys and Jaws a little

No... I've already got one and was just curious. For some reason, I seem to remember an I.D. of 33.2mm. AI is spitting back 32mm... which seems like it might be for the Bass Tuba versions.



Why would you expect AI to have that information if it's not posted in a place you could find it by ...