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Mary Ann wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 4:36 pm Well, you could be my size (instead of bear-sized) and show up with a Mfone 183 and they all think you have a BBb tuba because it is so HUGE.

huge, like this...

I'm skinny but not THAT skinny. That guy needs someone to feed him, yesterday.

Bring all the Martins, and use whichever suits each piece.

PS.

I am grateful others have taken the metaphorical use of the term "blindly" literally so i don't feel the need to.

I don't know. Can you?

Er... take wee old eb to a first rehearsal with a new group?

I look forward to hearing hearing the adventure!
(some Tolkien quote from the hobbit about good easy times passing quickly and boringly, where as challenges at least making a good story)

How comfortable are you with E-flat and reading? When I dived off the C tuba cruise ship into the B-flat tuba vast sea, my overblown estimation of myself was telling me that I wouldn't have any trouble sight-reading passages that involved some velocity, and it would all be just great. What I hadn't admitted to myself was that my B-flat reading ability was still just about where it had been when I was 17-1/2 years old. The first few weeks, the first few pitches that I played on the B-flat tuba - whether I read them, or played them offhand - were valved as C tuba pitches, until I straightened myself out - either fifteen seconds or a minute or two later.
... the most difficult pitch to come to terms with on any new length of tuba, as far as which valves to depress is concerned: C-sharp
the most absurd C-sharp valve combination of all:
1st-valve (E-flat tuba)