Hydro-dipping: the absolute perfect thing to dress up your plastic tuba! Just go ALL the way!

The other day I forgot which tuba I was playing and went for the pedal Eb on the Hagen with "NStar" in my head -- and had it come out loud and clear. Then I realized I wasn't on the NStar, and wow does this thing have a nice false tone! So now the pedal octave notes D, Db, C are all single-valve ...

I don't have a backstage table. I have a floor, everywhere I play. I've gotten quite good at getting a top loader on and off a tuba, but the bag needs a minor modification so the lid in the fully open position can be stuck to the bag with velcro, so it's not interfering when you have the tuba bell ...

I heard the G# as flat on the F tuba, and a bit strained. So I like the French C tuba better.
Heh, try it on a Norwegian Star -- it can do that solo quite well.

I've been trying to get retail type people to convince protec to expand the line of their platinum line bag to include more sizes. Good quality and affordable It's funny but I have always hated top loaders but now find that is the only thing I can use because it is now iffy to lower a tuba into a ...

The Miraphone bags are produced by Soundline and we get the ones for Lidl tubas. If you'd like to send what you're looking to outfit, I can see what our cost would be. We also get Supersacs from Goetz, top loading bags that used to come with B&S/Melton instruments. Let me know if you'd like more ...

There seems to be a supply problem -- very few of these at retail stores. Only thing Dillon has is a euph bag. Anyone know what's up with that?

For grass-rolling, I have often wondered if one of those two-wheeled hand-pulled golf bag carts could be mangled to work with a tuba bag on it. Those things are actually designed to be dragged through the rough.

I routinely use the false tone for Ab down to the pedal on the NStar, even though it has a fifth valve. It is just less stuffy than having all those valves down, and easier to play. One of these days I'll probably find the fifth valve frozen. I started using the false tone when I had the four-valve ...

It's called a Blokedeep.

Ok, pfft. Since you asked.

Many people put the bifocal at the top, but it requires a lab that is willing and able to show as little of the bifocal as you need, and the one called the Executive is common. I ordered a pair of glasses once and the measured / ordered height of the line was 8mm, but when the glasses came in it was ...

One of the euphs in my quartet has essential tremor. I doesn't interfere with his playing though, which surprised me. I sat behind and to his left in a recent band and he had a neat solo. The man was shaking like a leaf except for his chops! And the solo went perfectly. He's just learned about some ...

I'm not that fond of cheese, or of wine for that matter, and can't figure out why people would, of all possible things, choose to eat wine and cheese, when they could, for example, eat chocolate chip cookies and Mexican coke. Sour and sweet, and I'll take sweet.

I ended up with a Voyager, used it once, and back to the Manhasset. That purchase did give me four solid stands for the TE quartet at home though.

Time to re-post with just a partial stable. Would have included the viola just to trigger Schlitz but it was too much trouble to get it out. So just the ones being played by me or others. Boxes to make the floor-to-lap transfer easier. I am too old-lady shaky to get a less fuzzy picture. Stable ...

Whenever I see a patina like this I'm reminded of my USMC-retired friend who complained about musicians whose instruments were just disgusting if they didn't keep them shined up properly. He never could understand that some of us have unlacquered horns on purpose.

I've heard they can be played in tune, and they meet my rotary valve and Bb pitch requirements.
Anything similar that can be played in tune without gyrations is also on the possibility list. No pistons.

Coming from my usual reasonably intelligent but non-pro and not-very-experienced viewpoint, what about MAW valves, and yup even I vote for the "just give a BBb a try and you may surprise not only yourself but those around you." But I play rotors for ergonomic reasons, and I wouldn't be able to pick ...

If I could get a euph that weighs two pounds instead of what my four-valve compensator weighs, and it plays and sounds as good, I wouldn't care what it is made of as long as it didn't smell bad. And yes I did look at the impedance charts but it took more than one reading to find which was what, and ...