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serious dents that affect the sound

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Since I sound like crap, I'm looking to buy some serious dents that affect the sound.

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Don't forget to buy an extra bag of right notes.
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I hear tuba mutes help :)
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bloke wrote: Sun Dec 20, 2020 8:32 am Since I sound like crap, I'm looking to buy some serious dents that affect the sound.

thanks.
For a nominal fee (or lunch) plus transportation, I would be glad to come and install said dents, but I will not guarantee my work. :popcorn:
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^ Just one time, I want to see an ebay description that says this.
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Everybody knows about certain F tubas where "the dent" helps low C intonation. I have another.

On the Besson New Standard 17-inch bell 3-valve comp I used to have, it had a sizable dent in the primary knuckle between the 1st and 2nd valve. Thinking this impeded response, I took the dent out. My fifth partials immediately went flat. so I carefully reintroduced the dent one tap at a time, until I achieved a balance between stuffiness and intonation. Go figure.
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My wife claims that I am seriously dents... :facepalm2:
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One night in the rain, (very early 80's) I was tooling along in my Austin Healey and a Datsun 510 guy turned in front of me BAM t-boned him...my head broke the windshield pillar. I have no idea the effect of that serious dent on the sound when I play though, as I hadn't yet resumed playing (since high school) till a year or two later. But it does explain a lot of other things.
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I once asked a eBay seller (selling a tuba so badly smashed that one of the bows was paper thin) if the dents affected the sound.

He of course said that the dents did not affect the sound. :eyes: :laugh:
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