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Yes, it is a shame that the knowledge of people with magic hands is just thrown away.
This has slowed down progress in many areas for years.

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Based on trial and error, at least in many cases And even if that isn't every case today, it sure wasn't when many tubas were made that are of interest today. Anyone have the data file for Chicago York? My 1941 Holton? Didn't somebody wrote a book about the York? https://www.researchgate.net ...

Finely summarized. I don't know how much tech is used nowadays for designing tubas but I sometimes feel that diy audio people use more tech. It’s a lot easier to standardize the source signal with audio equipment. Not many of us have access to those standardized transducers. And tools like REW make ...

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Read the final paragraph - I invite you to try it, it would be interesting indeed. I'm just saying that for myself, here's why I'm not distressed about the ambiguity of "5/4". Or perhaps this kind of work has been done for some other musical instrument, so one can comparison shop with graphs and ...

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Read the final paragraph - I invite you to try it, it would be interesting indeed. I'm just saying that for myself, here's why I'm not distressed about the ambiguity of "5/4". Or perhaps this kind of work has been done for some other musical instrument, so one can comparison shop with graphs and ...

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If tuba manufactures start providing some simple measurements like volume, length and angle of the different conical parts, impedance graph... it would much easier to categorize the instruments. But I guess that would kill the medieval magic halo surround the instruments and in one sweep kills like ...

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