Ron Bishop wrote: I am in awe of the string players.

bloke: to back row players in amateur orchestras cracking jokes about the strings, wrote:You go over there and do it, and have you made any recordings of yourselves, lately?

Over the years quite a few people have asked me if they could drop off their 16 or 15 year old son so that I could teach them some stuff about repairs.

The first thing I ask is something like "is your son putting together and racing his own hobby cars?"
(real cars, with their sons driving them in ...

Could any of the sensible people here imagine owning, or being a CEO of a company, or owning a significant percentage of stock of a company, or being a board member of a company, where employees were hired blind (not knowing who they are, and just interviewing them from the other side of a bed sheet ...

Stuff like this is why I feel so sheepish when string players sometimes compliment me.
Listen to what they have to do ALL THE TIME...

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This looks like it might be a jp. I'm not sure. Schools need their sousaphones back quicker than it takes to order these.
Some of the makes take a long time to get. (JP is far from the slowest.)
I just straighten them back out, and - if there's a crack - I just silver braze the crack.
Repaired ...

I was told he fell, is in rehab and confused, and really needs your prayers.
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Based on what they told me, the jobber believed(s?) that the mouth pipe tube is the same for the King marching baritone and the King marching euphonium.

I ordered one (in silver, no less)
They are the same shape and almost the same length, but the marching baritone mouthpipe is roughly an eighth ...

Five (of the six of us) also sang. I was not one of the five.
(My mic was not set up conveniently for leaning forward and singing harmony to the melodies... as I was playing the big E-flat recording bass 40% and trombone 60%. I would have played probably 60% recording bass, 30% bass guitar, and 10 ...

The old model 90 Miraphone B flat is a true Kaiser.
It's a different type of 6/4 tuba.

me...?

I wouldn't choose an Adams, but - were it that I otherwise LIKED an Adams (yet not the low range response), I'd get a mouthpiece that I liked with a SMALLER throat.

What's a tuba without a good low range response?

Some of the Yamaha trumpet slides are silver brazed, as are their pull nibs.

Second slides are more difficult to twist because the space between the two pairs of tubes is typically quite narrow.
It's usually the only slide that I would (possibly) consider doing something like beating on (in the crotch of the slide bow) with something like a quarter inch round Phillips ...

I will put my usual lack of two cents in that the first real tuba I owned, a MW 182 F, what I noted was that the low C actually wanted to center considerably sharper than C, and that I thought a whole lot of extra tubing might make it more playable. However I sold it and it is now in Pittsburgh ...

AvrTuba wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 3:54 pm https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/updates/

Oh look, they also need $10,000,000...

I tend to wonder what many of these executive directors are ACTUALLY qualified to do. (sack groceries... or would they put the eggs underneath the frozen meat ??)

Those in that age bracket should stop for just a moment and think about all the things money have done for them up to that point in their lives, consider a life without money, and then look at the skill set or discipline they are pursuing and decide whether they love it so much that they would do it ...

Those that are similar to B&S rotary tubas are not going to play as well as (or at least not "just like") the best of the genuine models, because the Eastman mouthpipe tube doesn't begin as small as the genuine model's does.

Realize - or be currently informed - that the original Symphonie model ...

A DMA in tuba?

In this economy?


Hey, everyone needs a hobby. :laugh:


My 16-year-old granddaughter plays horn well enough to work in many per-service American orchestras - even as principal and (as fearless as she is) probably would do best as principal, as she plays as a principal player ...

immediately previous response:
"thank/agree-with, conditionally"

- A very large percentage of working orchestral musicians I know really do not enjoy sitting all day listening to cattle calls behind a bed sheet (often without being paid), particularly not when it's someone who's not in their own ...

I'm still trying to find non-poisonous cat food for my cat. That tends to go the direction of specialty raw. I found some I was willing to try due to the lack of chemicals added, and the food came to $64. They wanted $81 to ship it. Back to sardines and hamburger and raw chicken, and even if the ...

If some parts supplier rapes me on the shipping, I can then - in turn - rape the person that owns the instrument I'm repairing.
In particular, institutional owners of instruments don't give a damn what they are charged for anything in particular, because it's not their money.

If I'm buying ...