The talent has to be there before the nurture can do anything. My sister was literally tone deaf and I have perfect pitch. No WAY she was going to be any good at music even though she was encouraged to try. She had to be taught to (attempt to) carry a tune, and I was playing things by ear on the ...

Still looking. Someone here actually went and play-tested it, but didn't know what a false tone was (he does now, belatedly) and so was unable to report on that capability. He liked it, for himself, just sitting home and playing it for fun. Wade said WAY over-priced for what it is. I don't know what ...

Just for the record, if you are worried about that stick thing with the hair on it, I can teach you how to get out of that instrument what it is capable of sound-wise, in about five minutes. That won't teach you "bow technique" or left hand technique, but it will teach you how to make the instrument ...

the elephant wrote: ↑Mon Apr 11, 2022 4:18 pm That seller is smoking waaaaaay too much weed. A thousand bucks for *that*? They are straight-up crazy. Hard pass. Good choice, MA.

There is a fool born every minute, and there is a reason why he won't accept returns.

Thanks but I can't do front pistons; I am so small (5' 2") and they are always designed for people with much longer arms than I have, and it puts my wrist at an impossible angle to try to play them. I can do rotors and I can do top pistons, but not the front ones. Otherwise it would likely work well ...

Well, I am convinced for no particular reason that it is the internal dimensions that determine the sound. No two instruments, no matter how they are made, have the exact same internal dimensions. The closest I've come was after buying my Silver-plate NStar after playing my friends yellow brass ...

Thanks. Corresponded with seller who had a trumpet player check it out and say it seemed fine but she wasn't able to play low range. Wants too much and does not allow returns, so I'll keep looking. I wrote back and said I doubted if a trumpet player would want to take my tuba-player opinion on a ...

I think how it feels and how it sounds to others may have some differences....so I like to take someone with "good ears for tuba" or whatever I'm getting. Not always, because if I only plan to play it in my living room, if I like it, that's enough.

Anybody know anything about these? Size would probably be good for me but there is always the intonation / false tones question. It not being returnable and being probably priced based on shiny-ness, of course I am leery. Still wanting that small playable Eb for my empty stable. https://reverb.com ...

Well....I took three years of oboe lessons in my late 50s. Worked my butt off for three years, got good enough to join a community band and not sound like an unhappy duck. Various disastrous illnesses intervened for a good ten years, but in January I lucked into a truly wonderful English horn. I ...

I would not recommend violin or viola because your hands / body likely will not adjust to the positions they need to be in. (My degree is in violin and I had a lesson business teaching various instruments for about five years, with a lot of adult students as well as kids.) Cello will be much less ...

That is such bad teaching....it doesn't work, never worked, and the people who taught that had no idea how to actually play the trumpet, although they could probably do ok on lower parts. I wish I had references to Roger Lewis's posts on the old forum....it is LIP POSITION. Curl out for low (kissy ...

Interesting....you must have worked for a very large company where people didn't know each other. As an engineer I worked in a public utility with a total workforce of 1500. So there were not that many engineers; basically, when a job opened up, when people put in for it, it was pretty much decided ...

I've always told people the the major problem with the violin is its awkwardness....adults usually can't ever get it completely, because their bodies simply are not flexible like kids' bodies are. My left hand is shaped differently from my right because of the position it was in for that many hours ...

For a different perspective, I have the opposite story. I auditioned as a violin major at Indiana University, and was accepted and given a Personal Faculty Scholarship. I had studied, at that point in time, seven years. I was thrown in with exceedingly talented students who had studied twice as long ...

jtm wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 11:00 am

Mary Ann wrote: ↑Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:54 am I had one of these and they are something of a cult item.....both triggers are "pull" instead of one pull and one push. Great for smaller hands.

What makes it a good match for a smaller band?

If you look again, I said smaller -- hands, not bands.

I had one of these and they are something of a cult item.....both triggers are "pull" instead of one pull and one push. Great for smaller hands.

Your best bet would be to inquire at UNM and see if the tuba professor there knows someone who would rent / lend you one. They have a web site.

Ya'll have fun!

I have noted the change in wait times for Wessex instruments has lengthened rather than shortened. "Supply line time problems" I suspect is causing them a great deal of trouble. If, for example, the instruments are on those ships that cannot get into our ports, nobody knows when they will be here. I ...