Heavy_Metal wrote: Sun May 11, 2025 4:33 pm I'm pretty sure that's pronounced "Koom Rhontha".

Correct, to qualify further.
The oo is short as in book
The th is voiced as in that
The rh is a voiceless trill. Many have trouble with this and just pronounce a rhotic R.

Mary Ann wrote: Tue Apr 29, 2025 6:22 pm I'll do it over.

It's working again without asking for a sign-in.

When you first posted the link, I could freely access the pics. Now it's asking me to sign in which can be via Dropbox, Google or Apple account. I did not try logging in.

Looks like Brasswind went under.


They just got assimilated by the Guitar Center Borg. Guitar Center/Music & Arts/Musician's Friend/WWBW were all owned by the same company. WWBW was deemed redundant and was shut down and they redirected customer's to Music & Arts.

Back to our regularly ...

Schlitzz wrote: Tue Mar 11, 2025 5:35 pm I like cheese.

Have you tried broccoli with cheese sauce?

Of course, Conn had to have an Artist line of products. I'm always amused every time I hear a reference to a Conn Artist instrument.

It was made in Db so it could play the Stars & Stripes Forever Piccolo solo.

Try acetone or fingernail polish remover or WD-40 or PVC pipe cleaner. They are stronger solvents.

DonO. wrote: Thu Feb 20, 2025 6:39 pm free leather mouthpiece pouch

Are the dyes they use sulfur free? Cause sulfur tarnishes silver.

...so are saxophones - then - "brassreeds" ?

What are the new names for English horns and basset horns?

("cor" is French for "horn")


Brass and Woodwind names come from the material they were initially made from. Flutes were made of wood long before metal ones came about. Clarinets also come ...

Mary Ann wrote: Fri Feb 14, 2025 9:50 am (a tuba is not a horn; it is a tuba. A horn is a horn.)

It's even worse when people call Woodwinds Horns. Even worse than that is when people think Saxophones are Brass instruments.

When Hetman became impossible to find, I switched to Meinlschmidt which they formulated to be just like Hetman.

Mary Ann wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 1:46 pm but found bassoon to be not ergonomically feasible

I'm convinced Bassoons were designed by Aliens for Aliens.

Mary Ann wrote: Tue Feb 11, 2025 9:09 am Oh, now you've done it! I've gone from one horn to four tubas. They multiply, you know.

Oh, I know! I've even started collecting Woodwinds.

This rounds out my Euphonium Quartet.
Mirafone 35W 4-valve Alto
King 625 Baritone
Mirafone 1258A Euphonium
Miraphone F281 Firebird F Tuba.

Took delivery of this one last Saturday. I'm a Horn player who doubles on Baritone/Euphonium. This is my first real Tuba.

but with a 3 valve instrument raises the question... double what?


There were both 3-valve and 4-valve Enharmonic instruments. I would say the double nomenclature is a carry-over from the 4-valve system (as is the description on the museum webpage). I would not consider the 3-valve system to be ...

bisontuba wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2025 12:50 am having full length slides for both the Bb and F sides of the instrument.

Um - No. That would be a 4-valve Enharmonic. With a 3-valve, it does not get pitched down to F. Someone at the museum needs to brush up on their taxonomy.

I think this might be it from Hal Leonard.

Indeed the German ue (ü) sound does not exist in English so it ends up getting modified in various ways into an English phoneme. My surname has this letter and is pronounced as an English long e (ee) sound in America.

tubaing wrote: Sun Nov 10, 2024 7:35 am the bell is marked "MIRAFONE" and a model number "2356"

In my experience, those numbers on Mirafone's were serial numbers not model numbers.