Question for the tuba techs

[Three Valves]

I don't like being called a "tuba tech", ...*

I'll never make that mistake again.

Especially the week Tuba Tech plays Tuba State!!

[the elephant]

I have no pretensions. I am a proud to be called a tuba or brass instrument repair technician.

[bloke]

That's fine...( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
...I just don't find buffing tuba bells or soaking disgusting hardened crap out of French horns to be particularly "technical"...nor even bending a new mouthpipe to replace a gross rotted-to-pieces one...
...and the last instrument that I would consider buying:

one advertised (on euroBay) as having undergone a "technical review"




me: doing technical stuff

[the elephant]

Call yourself whatever you like. I ain't no ar-teest tuba player nor am I an ar-tee-san in the shop. I apprenticed as a brass repair tech and that I what I have always called myself.

So would you prefer that we call you MSM's "Principal Repair-ist" or "Principal Repair-er-ist"? Asking for a friend…

[bloke]

fixer…

…ie. I’m fixin’ to be fixin’ that horn…

alternatively: bender-backer

…but first, I have to make an emergency phone call to a house water pipes “tech”.

There’s a leak, and - if I fix it with lead solder - I’ll have to report myself, and be sent to prison.

[peterbas]

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[peterbas]

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[bloke]

“Hans Cheese”

[Yorkboy]

That's fine...( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
...I just don't find buffing tuba bells or soaking disgusting hardened crap out of French horns to be particularly "technical"...nor even bending a new mouthpipe to replace a gross rotted-to-pieces one..

In the course of a day’s work, a person may be required to do many disparate functions - some “technical”, others “menial”. When describing one’s actions, I don’t think it’s beyond the pale to place a little emphasis on the more difficult and complex daily tasks.

(I know you, bloke - in person you are self-effacing to a fault. Cut yourself a break and “round-up” for a change )

[Three Valves]

…but first, I have to make an emergency phone call to a house water pipes “tech”.

There’s a leak, and - if I fix it with lead solder - I’ll have to report myself, and be sent to prison.

[humBell]

…but first, I have to make an emergency phone call to a house water pipes “tech”.

There’s a leak, and - if I fix it with lead solder - I’ll have to report myself, and be sent to prison.

Apropos of nothing, i once got a tuba off craigslist and the case had Tuttle written on it.

I thought of this fine cinematic masterwork.

[Three Valves]

Apropos of nothing, i once got a tuba off craigslist and the case had Tuttle written on it.

I thought of this fine cinematic masterwork.

I have Tuttles living across the street from me, right next to the Deputy Director of the CIA!!

[bloke]

My point is misunderstood:

About the only "technical" tools that I use are a free-handed calipers or micrometer (ie. "tiny-scale yard stick"), taps, dies, drill bits, and a (rarely indexed) lathe.

Otherwise, I bent, poke, whack, and rub on soft metal - to move it back like it was before (or to change it to a more applicable shape).

That ain't very technical...and I ain't no artist - 'cause it ain't art, I ain' no craftsman - because I didn't make it in the first place.

ALL I AM IS A HORN-FIXER !!!

OK...a pretty good one, but I'm not a "tech", I'm not an "artist", and I'm not "crafting" anything.

...and no, I don't want to design/assemble other people's frankentubas, but I will hire myself out to smooth out the pieces of them, before others stuck them together this-way or that.

[hrender]

https://www.merriam-webster.com/

technician - noun
tech·​ni·​cian | \ tek-ˈni-shən \

1 : a specialist in the technical details of a subject or occupation

technical - adjective
tech·​ni·​cal | \ ˈtek-ni-kəl \

1 : having special and usually practical knowledge especially of a mechanical or scientific subject

[bloke]

fix·er /ˈfiksər/

noun

1. he who fixes

[Three Valves]

@bloke The Tuba Whisperer!!

[the elephant]

I see the actual definition of the word means nothing to Joe. That's okay. He ain't no Englitch perfesser either.

[bloke]

If you want your instrument fixed by me, neither ask me to “tech“ it nor to “tweak“ it.
I’ll leave those procedures to the other-than-fixers.

I believe it’s going to depend on who’s dictionary and who wrote it when they were drinking what.
Surely, I’ve made it pretty clear that I’ve grown weary of so many workaday skills (though admittedly, so few today know how to do much of anything - whereby workaday skills amaze some people) being elevated to being described as “art” or “craft“…
…“That air conditioner guy is a true artist.“…(etc.)
…and I have heard people operate musical instruments as if they are “technical equipment“, but have never enjoyed that experience.
…so definition #3 triggers me just a bit, but - at least - definition #2 doesn’t identify “THE Science”.

Apparently, “tech” is a slang word for this:

[Doc]

If your specialty is making fart noises on the tuba, does that make you a tuba tooter or a tooter tech?

[the elephant]

If you want your instrument fixed by me, neither ask me to “tech“ it nor to “tweak“ it.
I’ll leave those procedures to the other-than-fixers.

Fixed is a rather vague term. By "fixed" do you mean that the horns will be firmly held in place? Or did you mean to use "repaired"? (Repaired is a different, much more specific word than "fixed" in *all* dictionaries if speaking about this field of work.)

I have never found it necessary to "fix" a horn unless I am about to strap it, which is not really repairing it, but restoring it. But usually, that restorative work is needed after something has been repaired. Anyway, once repaired and restored, I can then unfix it and start filling out the bill…