York 4v BBb at BBC

[hrender]

I believe I've read many times here about tubas that were taken to pieces and more carefully soldered back together, making much better playing instruments. Sometimes with changes to bracing.

How do you know it ain't broke?

No idea. I'm just saying I'd leave it alone unless there were issues with it. Restorative actions taken on my horns haven't always improved them, and in one case actually caused some problems. You need to be fairly choosy about who does work on your horns, and the more extensive the work, the choosier and more cautious I would be. But, I am a cautious person.

[RenoDoc]

This actually brings up a question that maybe I should post in the main forum, but what are the recommendations of when/if I should get a horn like this fully restored?

I vote for a sympathetic "restoration" what do I mean??

This!!

viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1553&p=16730#p16730

I do like that "sympathetic" restoration! And yes, if I got this horn fixed up, I'd do my homework a bit and send it likely to some of the places that have done work like this in the past. One of my friends does a lot of woodwind restoration and I keep trying to talk him into branching out into brass/tubas but he's smart enough to stick to his skill set.