We have about a dozen tunes in our quintet folder that, once we had read them initially (decades ago) I have only ever played them by ear, as I do in a traditional jazz band setting. I know the tunes, I "know' the arrangements, and I try to make a bass line that fits the tune and what is going ...

Interested in selling the gig bag separately?

I did not mean to imply that this mouthpiece "leaks". It does not.

Is it worth the hefty $500 (with silver plating — $679 with gold plating!!!) price tag? Is it a gimmick? Is it magic? <snicker> So I dropped the $$$ needed to get one of these mouthpieces, fully recognizing that I probably would never use it at work. I also fully recognized that this weird piece of ...

This is from two years ago… … apparently. I have no recollection of this moment. I was obviously warming up at First Pres in Jackson prior to a large orchestra with mondo-biggo choir gig. Since it looks too warm for Christmas, this must have been in October of 2022. I must have been feeling good dur...

Perhaps the regular mute numbers do not match with the practice mute numbers, but according to the Schilpf document provided in the link above this is not possible. Please read the description from that Schilpf document. It lists nothing but very large tubas in the description for the #11 practice m...

Outside of Doug Elliott, is there a modern mouthpiece brand that's offered in super large shank? What do you use in your 163/164? Fortunately, my experience is that those Alexes love the Doug Elliott R cup. Ron Bishop and Matt Good used them and, I believe, our own Mr. Elephant used one when he had...

The Schilpf guide says the 11 fits 6/4 horns like the Holton 345 or the MW 2165. The Daryl Smith is very much a 4/4 tuba. I am not understanding you, here. Are you sure it is an 11 or are you calling the Kalison Pro 2000 a DS? (The Pro 2000 is the Kalison horn that the #11 fits,) If this will proper...

I know who "Mickey" Moore is. but the name "Michael Moore" did not ring a bel at first. I believe he used to occasionally sub into my orchestra many years ago when he was at USM. (The MSO player back then was a local band director named David Mayfield and the orchestra barely pai...

Since I have never heard of this man I would not be comfortable contacting him. I would rather not cold-call someone to "invite myself over for tea", so to speak.

And what makes you believe he owns an HB-10? It says nothing about that in his bio.

Still looking for an HB-10 or HB-12 owner within about ten hours of me who would like to play my Adams in exchange for some face time on their tuba. I'll buy supper…

Hang tough. Don. It is an adjustment, but that is all. You can still (mostly) do what you want if you practice moderation and know when to call it quits on bad days. I want to take the time off but have bills to pay, so I missed a few gigs and am now under a lot of pressure to *not* miss any more of...

I have tenure. I think all unionized orchestras have a tenure system in place.

Allow me clear up some of what I posted. The motivation for all this stems from the fact that five our our eleven brass players are retiring tonight. My 41 years with the old farts with tons of experience is about to end. Two of the new trumpets are *very* young. They play quite well, but they need ...

So I have been very sick for some years now. The docs *finally* figured it out. I have very bad congestive heart failure. I have between 30% and 35% cardio functionality. Sounds pretty grim. This diagnosis came after an ER visit at 2:00 a.m. and a week in the hospital and THIRTY-SEVEN CT scans, ches...

Hello. I have been told by several players that they *thought* the Petruschkal and the Adams F share outer dimensions. I have a Cronkhite bag and it does not fit well enough to make me happy. There is not an Adams pattern in the bunch, and the HB-10 pattern has a smaller bell OD. The bag I bought wa...

I suspect that many of those horns are copies or "tributes" to the HB F tubas which stood alone for years for piston Fs with a low register and even response/intonation. The HB design is the oldest of these many F tubas and (IMHO) is itself a variation on the wrap of the Yamaha 621 F, whic...

Is that a copy of the Adams F? It looks a *lot* like mine, and if it is then that is a big selling point, as the Adams is quite a good tuba, being an updated version of the Hirsbrunner HB-10. Best of luck. It is a very attractive tuba that ought to sell fairly soon. The hard case is excellent lookin...

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Today I torched apart the 5th/6th valve section and discovered (sadly) that the original valves had to have the outflow knuckles expanded to make the "taper" from valve to valve. This means that one slide outer tube and five ferrules cannot be removed from the two rotor casings without the...