With regard to cleaning petroleum products with Dawn. Before using Dawn add a bit of cooking oil to the petroleum and rub it in. It will mix with petroleum then when using Dawn the cooking oil enzymes lock better to Dawn than the petroleum enzymes so the dawn cleans better and faster. I learned this ...

Trombone player and tuba honker here. About 10-years ago, I began tuning to the Ab at the top of the staff with the slide even with the bell. That gives me plenty of room to adjust 1st position as needed. I find great variations in horns - my 88h needs a good bit of correction but my Edwards bass ...

I'm also in coastal Georgia - far away from the eye but we lost lots of trees and power was out for two days. We got lots of wind but little rain.

There's Overture. Which I've used for years
https://sonicscores.com/overture/

Mike Gminski and Nancy Hogshead were Olympic athletes with asthma. They wrote a book about how they functioned, and one exercise was to walk briskly breathing in for four steps and breathing out through pursed lips for four steps. As that's not how we breathe as horn players, I modified the exercise ...

I second the recommendation for a lesson with Doug.

As a bass and tenor trombone player and tuba honker, I have the trombone range, the Ostrander bass trombone version with the keys changed, and the tuba version. I practice all of them on all instruments to work on reading different octaves. Yes, play them musically.

He also played baritone sax.

After I lost my non music job in 2008, I learned to never depend on one source of income nor keep all my money in one bank.

I prefer reading paper but had to compromise. I bought a refurbished Chrome book on eBay for $50 to try electronics. My church group has several hundred pieces, and the director is likely to call any of them at a rehearsal. The Chromebook makes those pieces easy to find. When she finally decides ...

Bloke's original post reminds me of a Mozart In The Jungle episode. Some rich folks hired a chamber group. The musicians were made to park in the back, use the rear entrance to the mansion, and forced to wait in the kitchen until performance time. Job opportunities are also shrinking. Symphonies in ...

I didn't learn tuba in middle school. I'm a bass trombone player who had to learn tuba on my own at age 70. I use alternate positions and fingerings all the time on trombone. Is there a chart for alternate fingerings on tuba? I do play a 4-valve but knowing the fingerings would be helpful. Or is it ...

Be careful of the more inexpensive RCA cables. I learned that they are completely plastic with only a foil covering to conduct the electricity. I learned because one of the male pins broke off in my amp socket.

When I was in school, back when the Mammoths were roaming, there were lots of treble clef tuba parts for band. Usually the director would take the biggest trumpet player and put him on tuba. With transposed treble clef music, he could use his trumpet fingerings. I'd say look for a BBb. They should ...

I think you're talking about which muscles are strong and flexible - the large muscles that move lots of weight or the small ones that control balance. Mark Rippetoe in his book Starting Strength gets into a bit of this discussing weight lifting. He advocates using free weights rather than machines ...

The story was that Joao Gilberto developed the Bossa Nova rhythm on his guitar (the bumps)while watching the hips of the women walking in his rural home town.

Loved her work. Sorry to see her gone.

You might want to look up dynamic stretching as opposed to static stretching. Dynamic is stretching with movement. As with most things there are enthusiasts, so take internet claims with a grain of salt. I do find they help me.

Would it transmit through the brass?

I was born with a form of nerve deafness. I’ve tried various hearing aides over the years and despite the promises of audiologists, I’ve never found any that help in my worst situations - noisy and crowded places.