I personally believe it is a useful tool, but it is now too late. Orchestras have either shuttered or they have worked out their own useful documents to cope with this situation. However, I plan on requesting a copy of our CBA be made, removing sensitive information, but allowing for all our ...

Well, we did it! My orchestra managed to salvage our huge contract with Jackson Public Schools. They will allow us — for this one year, only — to provide them with recordings of our YPC (3rd, 4th, and 5th grades) and KinderKonzert (K, 1st, and 2nd grades) series (downtown in the hall) as well as the ...

… so I don't be foolish and break anything… Not "foolish", just inexperienced. Do not swing hard in the other direction now and start telling yourself that you should not be intensely curious. Curiosity is a rare bird in today's youth. I would never wish to put that fire out in a person. I ENC ...

I would like to have that horn for chamber music, though. It's decently clean throughout all the registers, and as far as I can tell it's in tune. Then why would you want to hack it up? The answer to your question is YES! You can do anything you want to spend the money and time doing, but the ...

Yes, it would. And I edited my post as you were answering, so there is more there for you to read and consider. Moving a horn up a whole step is a difficult project that almost always results in a ruined horn the first few tries. It is time-consuming and can be very expensive, too. You are not ...

BBb tuba = 18' ± F tuba = 12' ± You would need to remove about six feet of tubing (which is 72 inches ). This is one-third of the tuba's open bugle. The slide circuits would also each have to be shortened by roughly a third of their current length. Not to mention that you need to be able to play a l ...

My Mirafone 180 F had one of those, but a previous owner had it cut to a flat M2 for some reason.

Monsters cut to F very poorly, but these make very nice, albeit very small, F tubas. Mark Wolfe had one.

Rest in peace, Connie Weldon. You were a pathfinder and a trailblazer, and you will be missed by many.

Talking to bort.

You can add a 6th but always omit the 5th.

Instead, install a 7th valve in its place. Make it a flat whole step and rig it up like a 5th. It can be your little secret. You can even call it a 5th valve. No one has to know.

Oh, heck, here are some nice reminders from the previous page so you can remember exactly what I did today. I made three more of these. https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-4J2vH8r/0/c11c9d53/L/i-4J2vH8r-X5.jpg https://photos.smugmug.com/photos/i-24kqbCk/0/d0e402db/L/i-24kqbCk-X5.jpg https://photos ...

Today I finally got around to correcting the three large detachable braces, including removing the socket and resetting it on one of them, (It was off-center.) I also built the three additional small detachable brace sockets using the King braces with the sockets Dremeled off. No gaps in any of them ...

Yeah, I did not intend for you guys to waste so much time on me being able to see the pics, but they are nice to look at. I was more about getting attention to the lost functionality between your link and my computer. These work well for me on other sites. I don't understand why your link fails to ...

I'm just pointing out that something with that link and this software seems to remove the functionality of the link for some platforms. My posts have not been about the tuba at all, but about the photo display. These imjur links work fine on other sites for me, but do not seem to work *here ...

Terry, it sounds to me like you have quite a dud, there, man. Dalyan stopped making tubas and the factory was retasked to make stuff like car bumpers and such, I seem to remember. A lot of F tubas suck. Try to find one that doesn't and then pass judgment on the species. I use F tuba for about 55 ...

Not. On. My. Computer.

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Terry, it sounds to me like you have quite a dud, there, man. Dalyan stopped making tubas and the factory was retasked to make stuff like car bumpers and such, I seem to remember. A lot of F tubas suck. Try to find one that doesn't and then pass judgment on the species. I use F tuba for about 55% to ...