Nah, those are currently being put out of work, so don´t waste your energy before the dust settles and you find out who ultimately will survive the redistribution of greasing-opportunities.

I don´t get it. Shipping / mailing / spedition of goods is one of the rare instances where private sector economics should be doing its thing. Which is supposed to be: - Promise services to be performed well, quickly, or cheaply. - Have customers pick a combination of any two of these virtues. ...

I´d suggest a procedure as follows: - define a set of measurements YOU need in order to make a bag that perfectly fits a horn of these measurements. - survey the most commonly sold horns and their dimensions (duh). Take those measurements YOURSELF at one of the huge tuba outlets who have ALL the ...

What I simply can´t wrap my head around with these things is the obviously wrong valve placement. Correct me if I´m wrong, and bear with me: Let´s say the valve set were a watch dial, valve #2 were its center and "12" were straight up. If #1 were the minute- and #3 were the hour hand, the OP´s first ...

I used to keep one smallish and one larger MP for most my horns. My preferences have changed over time, though. It took me a while to get used to a 9.5 mm bore / 35 mm rim self- customized (ugly, crude, straight-conical bowl and cylindrical bore) piece. Back then, the PT50+ was my go-to piece on my ...

Thanks, bloke, for pointing out a common goal we both share and seem to be passionate enough about to not pass up a chance to engage in nerdy conversation... Back when I switched from trp./flgh. to tuba, (1990) I made it a point to immediately go and find tuba-related CDs and, consuming those, chose ...

Yes.
This forum made me aware of that channel some time earlier this year.
I especially enjoyed the Elektra excerpts. Wasn´t familiar with that music.
Thanks for the suggestion.

There is this old vaudeville play / jazz standard / wherever it originated Gassenhauer about potatos and tomatos which provided a suggestion of what to do with discussions like that. Yes, of course, the notion that words have meanings is a very important one. But I suggest to apply it to expressions ...

Many years ago I went to this tuba recital where a mixture of "normal" and "avantgarde" literature for unaccompanied tuba was presented, including improvised passages. At one instance, the tubist (!) took an empty round cookie box such as this one https://www.walmart.com/ip/Royal-Dansk-Danish-Butter ...

Bloke wrote: What's their name and phone number? I´ve been there and done that, and if I ever have to buy a BBb again, 5-valved it will be. When you´re an orchestral tubist, maybe not: rarely do you see a 5v-BBb in German concert halls, and if a 5th valve were SUPERIOR in that setting, they´d be st ...

There´s more where that came from.

This is WDR BigBand staff, not the worst people to take inspiration from...

What I offered above was hints on improving the response-time that elapses between your initiation of a note and that note´s actual appearance at the bell. Or rather, your control and awareness thereof. Once you achieved YOUR best (not necessarily your shortest attainable, but rather your best ...

I second the idea of giving your horn another chance. I´ve been totally in your situation, several times: - switching from flugelhorn to tuba was the biggest challenge timing-wise - adding CC to F was a challenge as well - switching from 3/4 CC to 5/4 BBb even more so. Don´t over-analyse it. Find an ...

Pebble finish?!?
Is that the bigger brother of sand blasting, the latter being used for satin finish?

...erm, not for me, I guess. I didn´t like golf-ball style motorbike helmets, either

While both versions are more than presentable,
I liked the French C-Tuba version better.
Compared to the F-tuba, it sounded more like "home range" of that instrument (a somehow more resonant sound, if that makes sense).

I use lip slurs all the time and have been spending long hours practising them. As well as breath attacks in favor of tongued articulation, which comes in handy, at times. But I find myself tongueing fast slurred runs for clarity of timing and pitch and to avoid a general impression of sloppiness ...

It hasn´t, really, so far.
Setting dynamics aside for a while and playing stuff in a healthy mp is going a long way for me.
That and making a good breathing plan.

On the other hand, I´m not playing overly challenging stuff most of the time.

Uncle Beer, you´re correct, of course. In order to take care of that, you don´t lean the horn against a wall, but into a corner of the shower booth. That way, the horn has sufficient resting points to stabilise its position: - bottom bow rests on the ground and won´t slide because of the friction pr ...

If I understand correctly, the QHR is simply a short piece of hose with a mouthpiece shaft on one side and a screw fitting on the other. While that certainly offers a convenient way to flush an instrument, it may be a good idea to make some adaptations for home use: I´d suggest an electric-drill- ...

I´m too feebly educated in chemistry to actually shed light on this, so this post should rather be taken as a nudge to knowledgeable forum members to maybe chime in and help me out. To my knowledge, silver tarnishes faster with rising sulfur percentage in air, because it´s sulfur that forms silver s ...