Pretty easy to have no competition when you make it impossible for them to stay in business over a period of four years. 2024 isn't over yet either. I know one person who is living in a tent on BLM land. He hopefully just got a job as a math teacher on the res in far NE AZ, but -- he was offered a k...

Pretty funny --- just for kicks I went on zillow and looked at Roanoke houses, and the first one I pulled up looked just fine and cost less than half of what I could get for mine here. Houses here have gone ridiculous in pricing. The one just kitty corner from me that is smaller than mine just sold ...

Anybody want to move to western Virginia to play tuba in a quintet? I guarantee we'll be enthusiastic about seeing you. I I would in a heartbeat. I'm a tuba player looking for a quintet. I have a long-term quintet but play the bone part on a euph, which I suck at. I tried to move to VA (C'ville) a ...

There do exist good and near-perfect fits. For me it was a mouthpiece -- going though the box-o-pieces at a single lesson with a teacher who actually helped me, I put one in, blew just one note, and he said, "THAT ONE!" Used it ever since. Sounds like your wife basically also said "TH...

The reason I asked for a 3v comper is that he is very unlikely to use a 4th valve. He's been playing three pistons for probly 55 years -- and just wants one in tune like he could play his trumpets/cornets with the 1st and 3rd valve kickers. Maybe I'm asking for the moon. He also literally paid $50 f...

And of course there is the Norwegian Star Fan Club. I will never go back to F.

Yes. I have a sound I recognize that spreads over all the brass I play. There was a time when I was shopping for a (French) horn that would give me a different sound, but realized that no matter what I got (I was looking at getting a Lewis) I was going to end up sounding like me anyway, and might as...

It has to be bell up; for use in the brass band. I had found that Besson and know it would not be as welcome as a bell up. But thanks for the links. And -- my experience with Besson higher brass has been that it has awful intonation problems. I don't know if that applies to the 3v compers or not. Yo...

Interested in, not ready to buy -- because it's not for me. Person just transitioning from trumpet to euph, is clearly a natural on euph and always struggled with range on trumpet. Wondering if someone has one sitting around unused. Playing condition needs to be very good, cosmetic way less important.

Anyone can always use my method of getting someone I don't know otherwise, on zoom and have them show me the tuba. I can always get a screen shot of them too.

Thanks for filling me in. I hope you didn't think I was making fun of you because what I was laughing about was my own trying to play above the 70% level over a lot of the instrument, because with my "perfect for an oboe player" lung capacity I'd be using at most a cup and a half of air. S...

The former tuba player in Tucson Symphony, who was really nice about playing with people including me, had a 2155. He either was a stellar player or got one of the good ones (or both,) because his intonation was spot on. And that thing could carry -- when the Empire Brass was here doing a concert wi...

(Unc Beer's comment to stay in the 70% capacity area cracked me up) I'm sorry you've misunderstood. That's not what I wrote. So what did I misunderstand? " when playing, try to stay in the fullest 70% of your lung capacity, as that's the range where the elastic nature of your lungs wants to he...

(PS, what with the extra wrap making the tuba tighter/smaller, the valve block seem proportionately larger, and the slides pulled out, particularly the second one, the hornicopia one looks like it is making an obscene (at least in america) gesture. Is bird really the word?) It's generally called Fl...

There's nothing that's against the rules, but - though there aren't any rules - there are things that work most the time that people teach. I'm always the one that's telling people to find things that work and follow the sound, and you're always the one who's telling people to find a teacher. We're...

I admire that company for not finding and using a "more modern, more sophisticated, more marketable name." I will never forget that name even though I am unlikely to ever have a use for it (which of course means it really IS marketable to the right customers.)

Sam Pilafian was faculty at a horn workshop I went to a long time ago. It was a small group of maybe 20-25 horn players, and I took my 182 Meinl Weston F with me as well as my horn. Of course the group got the breathing gym instruction. I think I "got it" at that point in time -- with my s...

The first thing I thought when I saw the picture is I guess that the string player in front of him is deaf now. Literally that is the first thing I thought.

So how can such a small bore be an air hog? This is something I just don't get yet, what makes an air hog and what makes an effortless. Clearly it is not "just" bore size, although you'd think it would be. And not tube length, because this is an Eb.

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Heh. I do.