Okay, I got the tuba soldered back together this morning. The results are very promising but I want to play it over a couple days to make sure I'm not lipping it more in-tune in a placebo effect. Details to follow in a few days. Cutting .9" off the dog leg and .8" off the large side of that smaller ...

Bell looks awesome!

Just call a spade a spade: you're doing some great dent removal. Facilitation, not so much.

A facilitator would help manage the whole project, specifically advise... and that's the #1 thing you list that you would not do.

Great spot--happy birthday indeed.

+1 to Doc , which says nothing about Germany, nor will this anecdote I'll add: Ordered an instrument from Virtuosity in Boston. They have been great to deal with. Somebody had a sniffle at the post office here so we were advised to expect delays so I told them "you know what, can you hold it til ...

Three random thoughts. Thomann says they are shipping. They use UPS to Canada. Not sure about USA. DHL is, IIRC, government owned through the German post office. All the shippers in this space (Fedex, UPS, DHL, etc.) have been able to raise prices in virus times. Government postal services worldwide ...

Really glad you are healthy again--hope you move the tuba!

Solid playing.
What is repair/maintenance history?

Sounds great--well done!

Mathematically, (bad day playing) > (good day quarantined with no playing).
Well done.

Erm, how much?

Good scholarship, better writing.
Thank you.

humBell wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 6:04 pm

Three Valves wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 5:24 pm Oh, great. Now I have helicon envy.

Is that wrong?

Most definitely not, although I wonder about what sacrifices are made in tone/intonation/etc. to achieve a limited form of portability.

Note to self: Contribute here on Sunday. Some bad joke about a helio con? Which the folk of Galileo's time were too smart to fall for... Wait, why need i justify my own internal deadline? I guess i think i'm funny or something. I suppose i could pick something worse than myself to be full of ...

Go get 'em, Sir.
Just sorry I live so far away: I'm morphing into one of those guys who buys stuff.

In the end, is a helicon supposed to sound like its own thing, or is it supposed to replicate another instrument whilst on horseback (kinda like how a mellophone lets horn players march...)?

All this talk makes me glad I have an apartment.
I am utterly in awe of anyone who can maintain/improve a house.

Dave Detwiler wrote: ↑Fri Sep 18, 2020 4:53 am [...]
(and why it showed up in a search for Harding is a mystery to me!).
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The "blowhard" jokes write themselves...

Amazing photo.
Thank you for posting it.

Chester (Nova Scotia) Brass has a benefit concert scheduled for Sep 27 at a church. Let's see if it comes off. There is no rhyme nor reason here as to which events the government approves and which it does not. Very confusing.The major junior hockey team can have fans, but the regional (pro) theatre ...

Excellent news.
Would the contract be a useful model for other orchestras in other regions or was a lot of it super-specific?