one of the most beautiful orchestral tuba excerpts of all time...

[bloke]

@Doc

Here's your tuba on the first day I got it out of the box from the person from whom I bought it:
- epic dents
- dirt / cobwebs in the bell
- a football-shaped (and nearly football-sized) flat area on the bottom
- terrible old worn rotor bumpers / loose screws
- stuck slides

It went from the box > to the back seat > to the rehearsal.
This piece/rehearsal represented the first sounds I made on it.

also: Please note my beautiful phrasing (thanks to studying Bordogni bel canto etudes, etc.)

https://www.facebook.com/9220065/videos ... 3514017043

...and yes, sometimes I do re-depress valves on repeated notes...It works better than foot-tapping, and - unlike foot-tapping - it doesn't annoy colleagues.

[Doc]

Beautiful playing! All those Bordogni really pay off, don’t they?

[bloke]

[Three Valves]

It pays the same, yes?

[bloke]

It pays the same, yes?

It pays way more, because the fiddle players in the woodwind players actually have to practice, and the trumpet players think they do.