There seems to be a strong correlation between written music requiring fast mute changes and also having been recently written as well as additionally not seeming to be that which is likely to withstand the test of time.


Counterpoint: Pictures. After those muted Abs at the end of Gnomus, you ...

There's an edition of Freischutz that has tuba in it?

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You wanna know how I got these dents?

I loved the tone I got on my 181 with it, and the wide throat is like Easy Mode for getting more sound out of the horn.

The rim is a disqualifier for me, though. I don't like the feel of a rim that round. If it were possible, I'd get the shank and cup and screw another rim on it.

At first, some who try this rim profile tell me that (regardless of donut size) they feel uncomfortable, because the mouthpiece feels to "big".
I suspect that what they are feeling is the LACK of all of that contact, and what they are feeling (rather than "big") is "next to nothing" (ie. far less ...

I was considering, if I can get mine unseized, trying the OG cup with a symphony shank.


This was the combination I used with my previous horn (BMB J-865) and it worked really well for that horn. When I bought my current DS, I bought the inverse components to try the different combinations to ...

My orchestra is playing Symphonic Dances this cycle. We read through it last night and I saw this penciled into the bass trombone part:

https://i.imgur.com/WECBIzP.jpeg

I guess the last group that played this had a tuba player that liked to nap during rehearsal. (Not that I'd blame them in this ...

Shank size can also be key… Found that out with my 2165. Stick a Euro, PT and American shank in there and see what happens.


It takes American shank. I use the Sellmansberger Symphony cup and shank on mine. Orchestral Grand (as cktuba mentioned) also works well, but I liked the tone I got ...

The DS did get away for a while. I'm glad I was able to eventually buy another one.

UncleBeer wrote: Thu Feb 05, 2026 4:46 am This deserves a poll: inebriation, 2nd week playing tuba, stroke?

D. All of the above?

Both my DS and 181 have Winter cases. I feel like I need to be drunk for them to go in a straight line when pushing.

bloke wrote: Wed Dec 31, 2025 2:22 pm BUY MY MOUTHPIECE BUY MY MOUTHPIECE BUY MY MOUTHPIECE !!!

All we need now is someone to make a cardboard cutout of bloke holding a mouthpiece and a speaker repeating this ad nauseum.

A sad day in music and Madison history.

We have an Elvis story, too. A couple months before he died in '77, he broke up a street fight in what's now a used car lot (I think it was a gas station at the time).

Both stories have commemorative plaques. Elvis's is at the location where it happened ...

RIP The Colonel

The urban legends surrounding Dvořák and Sibelius get repeated often. Gotta wonder what a tuba player did to Tchaikovsky around the time he was composing Romeo and Juliet.

I played both Gandalf and the Paul Lavender "Excerpts from" arrangement when it was being overplayed (maybe a couple times on Gandalf even).

About a decade ago, I did get the opportunity to play the entire symphony. My employer also used a recording as filler music at an event once (without ...

Definitely not. The same argument given for music is valid for art.

Pretty much the same as Blake. I do have an app on my phone, but my TU-12H is my workhorse.

bloke wrote: Mon Sep 08, 2025 11:00 pm "SOURCE ?!?!?! "

Trust me, bro