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- Tue Jun 25, 2024 5:54 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Not a tuba...single valve bugle info?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 132
Re: Not a tuba...single valve bugle info?
Slingerland made a whole line of single-valve bugles, including a piccolo soprano. The ones I usually see are your garden variety single-valve sopranos and baritones (the old/small kind, not bass-baritones). I've seen a few piston-rotor bugles as well, but I don't think they lasted very long into th...
- Sat Jun 01, 2024 4:45 pm
- Forum: Repairs & Modifications
- Topic: ' remember - back in the early 70's and into the 80's - when people described Yamaha as "pretty good for the money" ?
- Replies: 21
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Re: ' remember - back in the early 70's and into the 80's - when people described Yamaha as "pretty good for the money"
Trumpet players are - just now - beginning to RE-discover the (6/7-series) lightweight Schilke-esque trumpets that Yamaha made "back then". They are a bit more than just Schilke-esque - Schilke not only designed them but made many of them himself. As I understand it, the horns with an &qu...
- Sun May 05, 2024 4:44 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: regardless of monetary value or quantity of instruments, tuba-wise, do you currently own exactly what you wish to own?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4806
Re: regardless of monetary value or quantity of instruments, tuba-wise, do you currently own exactly what you wish to ow
Oh I know...my last tuba was a Boosey compensating Eb. Would love to have another (with valves in better shape), but...they cost money, and all.
- Sun May 05, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: regardless of monetary value or quantity of instruments, tuba-wise, do you currently own exactly what you wish to own?
- Replies: 62
- Views: 4806
Re: regardless of monetary value or quantity of instruments, tuba-wise, do you currently own exactly what you wish to ow
I currently own zero tubas, so...no.
- Wed May 01, 2024 11:49 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Horns I sold, that I wish I had back
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2224
Re: Horns I sold, that I wish I had back
I did briefly own an Olds S24G bass trombone. Had I had the time and play money to get a set of modern rotors and paddles/linkages put on, and the wraps redone, I might have kept it. Stock, those horrible valve levers put my hand in significant pain after 30 seconds of playing. I've never played a l...
- Tue Apr 30, 2024 2:20 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Horns I sold, that I wish I had back
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2224
Re: Horns I sold, that I wish I had back
Tubas and euphoniums specifically, none. The Boosey Eb compensator with the 15" bell was a sweet horn, but it badly needed a valve job and I wasn't in a place to do that. Plus I had a very small living space at the time, and a tuba I never used taking up a ton of that space was something I was ...
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 11:53 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: What Euphonium does Mulcahy use?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 840
Re: What Euphonium does Mulcahy use?
I remember liking the MW euph, I just liked the Kanstul more. Probably for the best I didn't know how low the MWs eventually dropped or I might have gone up there and grabbed a euph I don't need!
- Fri Apr 26, 2024 9:57 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: What Euphonium does Mulcahy use?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 840
Re: What Euphonium does Mulcahy use?
I almost got a Meinl-Weston euphonium (I believe it was the 451S, but might have been the 551) when I went to the brick-and-mortar Woodwind & Brasswind store in South Bend to pick out a euph years ago. I ended up going with a prototype Kanstul 975 instead. One beautiful Sterling Virtuoso later, ...
- Fri Apr 19, 2024 5:46 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: What Euphonium does Mulcahy use?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 840
Re: What Euphonium does Mulcahy use?
Mulcahy hasn't used a 321 with the CSO since 2001 at the latest. It does appear that he was using a 321 in this 1990 CSO concert , but every video or picture I've seen since has him on a 3+1 compensator (looks like a Willson to me), starting with the 2001 CSO brass Bud Herseth retirement concert (se...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Wessex Helicon
- Replies: 28
- Views: 1892
Re: Wessex Helicon
One need only spend a day at Disneyland listening to the sousaphone players in the Disneyland Band pumping out rock-solid low Ebs, Ds, and Dbs that anchor the (very loud) band just as much as any other note to realize that a 4th valve on a sousaphone is entirely superfluous.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:13 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: intruments and mouthpieces are important (fair warning: a "preachy" tone)
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1090
Re: intruments and mouthpieces are important (fair warning: a "preachy" tone)
It's pretty simple: the goal is to find a setup that makes playing as easy (and therefore fun) as possible. Good equipment exists to make that happen. Brass instruments are tools...you wouldn't use a bad set of hand tools or power tools if you could help it, even if they could technically complete t...
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:39 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: If you get a tax refund, are you buying a new tuba?
- Replies: 21
- Views: 1350
Re: If you get a tax refund, are you buying a new tuba?
I'm a freelancer, so I always owe a hefty amount at tax time.
- Mon Mar 04, 2024 9:19 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: 20+ Tuba & Euphonium Jobs ELIMINATED
- Replies: 10
- Views: 849
Re: 20+ Tuba & Euphonium Jobs ELIMINATED
A friend of mine was in one of those Air National Guard bands. She and her unit were given the option to move over to a local Army band, and many of them took that option. They have to go through Army basic training, but after that they will still be employed as military musicians, playing with the ...
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: .
- Replies: 38
- Views: 2647
Re: The most commonly used tuba in the US today?
It boggles my mind how Yamaha could make the euph 321 and Eb tuba 321 so good, but the Bb tuba 321 so awful.
- Mon Feb 05, 2024 1:07 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Whether "French" tuba or "any" tuba, is our collective regard for Debussy as low as his was for us?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 435
Re: Whether "French" tuba or "any" tuba, is our collective regard for Debussy as low as his was for us?
The trombones don't have a WHOLE lot more to do than that. I played it in undergrad and it was pretty much just an "I get to listen to all these pretty flute solos" experience, not so much a playing one. There is also a La Mer by a less-known composer named Paul Gilson. That one gives the ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 7:55 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: BRASS QUINTET..TUBA OR BASS TROMBONE.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 964
Re: BRASS QUINTET..TUBA OR BASS TROMBONE.
Personally, I don't like the sound of either tuba or bass trombone in the average brass quintet (the exception being rep specifically written for bass trombone, like the ABQ stuff). Even an F tuba (or at least, the big Fs everyone is using these days) is too big for the group to my ears, while bass ...
- Wed Jan 31, 2024 2:19 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: tuba ownership / emotional attachment
- Replies: 26
- Views: 1280
Re: tuba ownership / emotional attachment
I go through a lot of brass instruments. I currently own 29, but have sold 36 according to my spreadsheet. I generally operate under two rules: 1. Instruments are tools, not companions. As much as I've dabbled in collecting over the years, it's never stuck for very long. If I don't use it, I don't l...
- Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:26 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Schiller Studio Elite (“compensating”) CC tuba thoughts?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 441
Re: Schiller Studio Elite (“compensating”) CC tuba thoughts?
Schiller/Jim Laabs is the worst place to buy a Chinese horn from...no quality control, no customer service, and the notoriously awful descriptions. Better to find the same model by another retailer. They're all the same model from the same factory, after all.
- Fri Dec 01, 2023 12:13 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Question to the long-time Wessex owners
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2353
Re: Question to the long-time Wessex owners
So, what horns did you want to buy? The two big ones were the PE523 large bore alto trombone and the large bore soprano trombone with F attachment. The alto was awesome. I tried one at a convention once and it was 90% as good as the amazing boutique altos, for a tiny fraction of the cost. They disc...
- Wed Nov 15, 2023 1:39 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: DCI/DCA
- Replies: 8
- Views: 522
Re: DCI/DCA
I like the mini-corps idea, but I also feel that it doesn't really need to have a competitive circuit like the big corps do. What I would rather see is more local mini-corps scenes in place of a national one. I feel like that would be a better fit for the more casual nature of those groups.