There should be a minimum stature to play a 6/4 tuba.
Some combination of height and chest circumference.
And if you're fat, we subtract some off both. Don't think a fat tuba will look "slimming" on you!
When skinnyfat Zoomers show up with a 6/4 I'm already underwhelmed.

I can't see more, Is it a 992? 992's are like a hybrid of 994 and New Standard. New Standard body with 19" bell, straight leadpipe, and non-leaky valves. 992 is a no-brainer, best of those 3 options.

Popularity of the model: 20% Rarity of the model: 20% Condition: 30%. Depends on value. If it'll need a $300 econo-econo "rebuild" on a clunker vs a Collij tuba, that's a different percent. The Seller, combined score: 30%. Includes photos, trustworthiness, not acting like they have somethi...

Sure the Reynolds is fatter. Look at the bottom bow, it's a thick boy. And with the crazy long bell, the end of the bottom bow is like the center of the bottom bow on an average tuba. So fatter even than it seems. You don't like the intonation? Don't you have the first valve trigger? What you do is ...

This is the next day, and one of their instruments remaining was Yamaha marching euphonium. I think I charged roughly $120 more than I charged on the marching baritone. I'm glad I did. There was a lot to do. :bugeyes: Everything works, everything's straight, and it's now in the same condition: no d...

There is NO WAY, ever, that the gains of an "appropriate" tuba offset the intonation challenges of suddenly switching to a cold instrument. If you need to stand up for one song, just Captain Morgan on your chair with your normal tuba. If you have to do both light quintet to heavy-hitting e...

There is NO WAY, ever, that the gains of an "appropriate" tuba offset the intonation challenges of suddenly switching to a cold instrument. If you need to stand up for one song, just Captain Morgan on your chair with your normal tuba. If you have to do both light quintet to heavy-hitting e...

For Eb part, Id suggest something small. Because it often serves as a defacto Euphonium (because the actual euphonium often serves as defacto Mellophone/embellishment role). And it would make tuba double-stops in octaves or fifths more clear and interesting sounding. IMO tuba divisi in BBB are overu...

The tuning sequence of any drum corps is more entertaining than most bands' actual performances.

No way in heck I'm wearing long pants over 70 degrees.
Nor will I wear long sleeves over 60 degrees.
But I'm so handsome I still look good.

Oh I didn't get the message was I supposed to stop wearing my corps jacket at some point?

It's nice to have matching intonation tendencies. It is HARD to make a large number of tubas sound good. B52 noises...whose sharp and whose flat...it never ends. I was a traditionalist until I realized the eb and bb of the same maker don't have the same tendencies. At that point I threw up my hands ...

I associate the "taco festival blatt weasel" sound WITH the 6/4 sousaphone, I don't think of it as a remedy. That's why I abandoned the 20K/20J, if you zing a note, or really do anything undisciplined, you get a little bit of that "spicy flavor". Anyways. Bell size. Smaller can o...

Wasn't all bad, there was the Love Boat theme. That one's just awesome.

When the media talks about DA prosecutors, their listed "Accomplishments" are the criminals they let go. That's right, the prosecutors. Praised for not doing their job.

I remembered the real weird thing about the 191.
D 3rd valve would still be kinda sharp...yet Db 23 would be flat, defying math. And Gb 23 would be sharp, opposite of nearly every other BBb tuba, a formula for some surfable-level audible waves. Though not as bad as a D played 12.

If it's like the 191...it does a bit of the Yamaha thing where even if valves 1 and 2 are set flat, combination 1+2 is sharp. 3rd valve for sure on D, possibly G. And the 2-3 notes have some issues...but isn't that all tubas.

Old as dirt Eb/F tubas ain't gonna lay down fat low Bbs. Think thin, like thru-the-teeth level of thinness. It'll be there, and it may even be in tune and acceptably loud. It just won't be fat and easy.

Surely the rock-bottom gig pay of $50 will be a thing of the past...$100 or at least $80 coming soon! Yeah we'll see some of that inflation, probably 20 years behind everything else.

Japan be like "Copying European designs with increased precision, yet utterly unsatisfying player feel and bizarre intonation? That's our job!"