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bloke wrote: ↑Mon May 15, 2023 8:10 am
Blake is a good player. Good players make tubas sound good, regardless of the tuba, as long as the tuba is pretty good. Blake is going to get compliments on his playing regardless.
That's very kind of you to say, but I wasn't receiving these types of comments from folks when I was playing on a Jin Bao 410 CC, which I thought was a pretty nice-sounding tuba. The Eastman sounds very nice.
Also, the only recording of my playing on the internet is me playing a buzzing, pinholes-in-valve Yamaha clone 621 F tuba on some 50c. sharp Ds with all the slides pushed in, so make of that what you will.
Something in my own playing that I am learning, after dealing with tremor issues and focal-dystonia-like symptoms that plagued the end of my college career, is that smaller can be better. After selling my other large tubas, taking a few years off and moving to smaller equipment (mouthpiece/tuba), those symptoms have completely disappeared. Psychological? Maybe, but I am very happy and enjoying playing again.
I don't say this very often, but there is a reason I play more euphonium than tuba these days
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Something in my own playing that I am learning, after dealing with tremor issues and focal-dystonia-like symptoms that plagued the end of my college career, is that smaller can be better. After selling my other large tubas, taking a few years off and moving to smaller equipment (mouthpiece/tuba), those symptoms have completely disappeared. Psychological? Maybe, but I am very happy and enjoying playing again.
I don't say this very often, but there is a reason I play more euphonium than tuba these days
Honestly, based on what I learned about dystonia and brain path function, it's the reason why I play a lot of "not horn" the last few years. The "sensation path" and the embouchure formation, if different from what you were doing when you got symptoms, means a different brain path is being used, which means at least a lessening of symptoms. Although, I don't have a lot of problem on horn now, as long as I don't put myself under pressure, and if I get up in "horn range" on the other instruments, I can and do get symptoms.
