so this is happening:

[cjk]

well I SUPPOSE it will actually fix itself IF you let it fall out on the floor a few times.

[bloke]

With the sandpaper, it works perfectly.

Again, I want to be able to grab the slide and pull it completely off without dealing with anything more than a lever that's right there by my thumb, and that's what I have.

On the #1 slide, I am going to install a "Bach #3-style" steel stop rod with threaded nuts and very small O-rings, because that one doesn't need to come off, but also slides effortlessly, and I've had some close calls with it when setting the instrument on its bell.

There are quite a few things that I usually do to instruments - after buying them - in order for them to completely suit me.
If there's something that distracts me - whether it be a tuning issue or something mechanical - I'm going to be striving to address or eliminate it, because I just don't like to be aware of tubas when I'm being paid to play music. I guess they're paying me to play the tuba, but they're really paying me to play music.

I've seen some little factory-installed black leather straps and buttons on some fairly pricey instruments, but I think I can do better than that.

[peterbas]

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[peterbas]

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[Mary Ann]

I did not steal your quote, Peterbas. I myself, if you go back and read, told him that he was blowing so hard that he scared it enough to drop its pants. Perhaps you said the same thing, but I said it independently.

[bloke]

I like it.

an argument over which one first made fun of how nicely bloke aligned his main tuning slide, and how a problem was solved without ruining nearly perfectly-assembled machinery


bloke "a lowly fixes-horns-on-Christmas-Day/3D-world/bas-humbug type of guy"

[peterbas]

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[bloke]

There's a lot of good-natured chain-jerking that goes around here, that is sometimes misinterpreted as being annoyed (or whatever).

"ACTUALLY arguing over tuba crap" - pretty silly

As long as we stay away from libel, I think we're good...

... so what happened to that current two-month self-suspension...??

[peterbas]

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[cjk]

OK...So this FINALLY stopped the slide from moving (when blowing the friggin' crap out of this thing)...

...so yes: I guess it IS air that's causing it.

EVEN AFTER installing the "slide brake", the slide brake's rubber pad would just scoot across the nice smooth lacquered surface...

...so I found a new/old REALLY COARSE belt sander belt, cut a rectangle out of it, and contact-cemented it to the outside slide tube.






That FINALLY stopped the sliding-when-I-blow-the-crap-out-of-the-tuba thing.

I was going through ______ Symphony No. _ (which is rumored to be programmed - next year - with one of the freeway philharmonics with which I'm associated). I've played #_ and #_, but never #_ (other than a single movement), and having a crack at #_ is an exciting proposition.

(sorry...but - just like fb - fack chekkuz have censored my post as - since the '23 - '24 schedule hasn't been released - it may only be 97% true.)

Anyway...I was blowing through a loud-as-hell passage in mvt. _, and (sho-nuff) that damn slide was OUT a friggin' INCH and was crackin' the damn pitches in the mid-upper range.
JETSON !!! YOURbbbbbbbbb FIREDbbbbbb !!!!!!!

PLEASE, Mr. Spacely...It's the DAMN SLIDE !!!

So what you're saying is, you didn't need sandpaper to make that slide work so well due to superior alignment, yet needed sandpaper anyway to keep it in?

[peterbas]

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[bloke]

I'll take it to a "tech", so they can add *thicker grease, misalign the slide, and use an expander.

Y'all like "techs", yes?



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