That's it.

What comes out when you mash 512 ?


A C, but nowhere near as clean (and angry) as open. I'm doing some volume work on the 186CC vs big-bell 186BBb to work on finding my nasty limits.


probably depends on the instrument.
The next time someone brings (any) C instrument here for ...

yeah...but if I lose some weight...

I propose that after this post at 10:14 a.m. Central Time on April 30th, 2026 that all future posts contain no words and only contain pictures.

People seem to love looking at pictures as well as seeming to misunderstand words.

I wasn't claiming that it moves much; it's just that (I'm fine with agreeing with it being mostly static) air in the last few larger diameter feet of a tuba (certainly compared to a trumpet or trombone) sort of remain colder until a player has been playing a tuba for several minutes... Certainly ...

I think it's fine to be a tuba hobbyist, but were I hobbyist, I know of some other hobbies that seem to me to be more interesting and exciting:

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If you're operational at all in treble clef, the sky's the limit. (and the music's better as well!)


I was reading through this thread to see if someone else would this first, so I wouldn't also say it.

Treble clef is THE clef of western music.
Any musician who reads music off of a five line ...

I got the two oversized Bach valves (#1 and #3) fitted to the first and third casings, I got some King valve stems retrofitted onto those pistons - which are much more durable than Olds stems - which tend to strip out when trying to use them for lapping valves into casings.
I got the original #2 ...

Don't let this response pull the thread off topic but I've noticed (and I'm sure others have noticed) that with huge brass instruments (tubas) it takes the larger outer bows much longer to warm up to playing temperature, whereby if the player plays constantly for five or 10 minutes with their hands ...

Could the weight difference be accounted for by the 2 pounds of solder between the bell and mouthpipe? :cheers:

Joe knows I'm just joe-king.

I think the Holton is super cool. I had an unaltered/3v top action BBb version pass through here and quite liked it. It would have been a no-brainer ...

plastic bags filled with helium strapped to them


I take walks with my dogs near a golf course and I see players with remote controlled golf bags that follow them around the course.

What about a playing stand with a robot base?


Just get one of those humanoid robots which are already ...

This particular Holton/York tuba body (with King valve section plus fifth rotor) has a mouth pipe tube which is considerably larger mouthpipe on the small end (actually a genuine euro receiver which follows logically to an appropriately sized choke point) compared to the King and the King copy ...

prodigal wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 12:35 pmThat's it.

What comes out when you mash 512 ?

just received this 5 lb piece of ladies exercise equipment in the mail...

travisd wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 7:58 am Have you priced Helium lately??? I'm hearing like US$1k for a K bottle (250cf) of the UHP stuff....if they'll even sell it to you, due to supply constraints.

AMERICANS:

CALL YOUR CONGRESSMEN !!!!!

no tubas shown, other than possibly one boxed up for shipping...

mostly horns, and a glimpse of a few baritones.

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