The main tuning slide looks uncomfortably close to the bottom bow. Did you play on a stand? Does it get dicey in a lap accidentally pushing the tuning slide in?

A lot of that looks plastic. I wonder how it will do in the long term. I guess maybe it is cheap enough it doesn't matter.

The little clips look a bit finicky too between sliding and opening. Does it take two hands, one to open the clip and the other to slide the music? Does the clip open like ...

I thought everyone just uses a Manhasset they stole from their college 20 years ago with the college name still spray painted on the deck.

Ha. I didn't even click on the poorly formatted link thing. Just thought the text was interesting. I guess I'm sucker!

Weird. I guess I should have quoted the original post that is suddenly gone. It looks like I'm replying out of nowhere! There was an original post in here asking about using Tableau or other chart/dashboard tools for tracking student progress. Honest.

Out of curiosity, what do you put in your spreadsheet? What data do you find interesting to track to represent student progress?

My initial gut reaction to this was that feels like hard data is anethema to art. As a baseball fan, the numbers explosion of the past 25 years has been interesting and ...

What about my question?


Personally, I really think the target market for your horn is small enough that a 6th valve won't change much in terms of saleability. It's going to be hard to sell either way. If it was going to be easy to sell, someone would have jumped on the horn when you were ...

Someone will pay you more for it if it has 5 valves.

Is this an ad? Bloke normally has umpteen bajillion more words to go along with his fancy links.

Arpthark,
I need a phone number I can call to speak to you. I don't understand your message.
-Harry or Hank


Blake's point is that you're new to this forum and so you are not authorized to use the private message system yet. If you expect someone to be able to contact you, the only avenue you've ...

Yeah your ad looks good now. Good luck with the sale!

As a Lurker you won't be able to send PMs. Maybe consider posting up an email so people can contact you. Does it play in tune with the new bell? That looks sweet and has the modernizations applied to it too (1st slide moved to top, 3rd slide curly Q straightened out).

I built the "bell securing position" (a sliding lock ALONG WITH a tension ring) to position the bell up higher...but (at least for a year), I've been using the tension ring ONLY and positioning the bell as shown in the picture. It draws less attention, looks less "Dr. Seuss-like", and the bell ...

I was told something interesting from someone who has been on panels--it often that you have multiple who CAN do the job just fine, but no one sticks out as a clear winner and the committee can't decide.


This seems insane and really disrespectful to all the people who paid to go to that ...

The 1241/2341 evolution has a lot of twists and turns. I don't really think there is a clear point where a 1241 became an "old style" 2341. The late 70's and 80's "King" had probably more worries than what to call this tuba I guess. 2341 stuck maybe about the UMI time in King's history. Combine that ...

bloke wrote: Fri Oct 06, 2023 2:28 pm Sam Gnagey (of northern Ohio)

Sam is in Fort Wayne Indiana unless he has moved recently. But like Bloke said, he takes King 1241 bodies, cleans them up in various ways (and cuts them to CC when making a CC), adds a 5th valve, and puts on various older bells to make franken horns.

2010 is more like synthetic felts' heyday.

I really like my K+M stand. Sure it takes up space in the middle of the room, but I don't live in a tiny apartment where space is at a premium. It sits in the music room next to a piano that also takes up a lot of space.

It is a floor stand so to me the potential damage from falling in the stand ...

Finally vented the valves.
Suddenly, I don’t have to nurse any slurs .
I’m liking this instrument more and more.
...

What does this mean?


With well sealed, non-vented valves you can get slight back pressure from pushing the valves if there is any air pressure difference between the sealed ...

LeMark wrote: Fri Sep 09, 2022 5:21 pm where you are located? Maybe someone here can help you out by playing them

He posted on reddit too and said Rochester NY area.