Whether it's worth participating in today, or not, the site still has a lot of accumulated information from people who aren't here, or even alive, and at a casual look it isn't archived on web.archive.org (not the posts.) It would be a shame to see it go off to the bit recyclers.

just for the record, if I were going to play gypsy violin solos, it would be on a violin.


yeah...If some 350 lb. dude in a too-short T-shirt walked up to my restaurant table and commenced to playing Csárdás on his sousaphone, I'm pretty sure I'd leave...without paying.


Sure. I don't know ...

tubatodd wrote: Thu May 08, 2025 7:23 am The fact that TubeNet is NOT using https in 2025, is pretty awful.

Though tubaforum.net may be a little eccentric on this point. It seems to me that most sites with authentication cookies will automatically switch you over to https:. Here, you stay on http:, with missing identity.

The names are similar by coincidence.

Romania is so named because it was a province of Rome back in the day (Dacia.) Romanian is a Romance language like Spanish and Italian.

Romani comes from rom which like many people's names for themselves, just means "man" in their Indo-Aryan language ...

Saw one of the university trumpet players who warned me that the brass players are expected to play different pitches harmonicas in one piece. When the students gave a bit of push back, they were told that they needed to embrace modern music.


Good for the students for pushing back.

I have ...

Just for curious, is there a mouthpiece comparator for tuba, like we have for trumpet? It's a incredible tool!!


No. Do you know where the data for that comes from? I could see a big tuba studio possibly might be interested in a task like this, but there are an awful lot of mouthpieces out there ...

Yes, the cross-section diagram HELLEBERG is presumably prior to the Precision Conn 2, and I think it would be fair to say that the edge is rounded about the same as the CONN 1, just rotated slightly inward because the cup profile is less conical at the top than the CONN 1. That geometrical factor is ...

Sharp rim? It depends on the year of manufacture. My Conn Helleberg 120S has a rim that is more like a Wick rim, slightly rounded and not sharp at all. I have played the sharp rims, but mine is not one of them.


Is your Helleberg mouthpiece new or vintage?

I don't know. I bought it used ...

For more on the subject of the Conn Helleberg, see The Conn Helleberg , from better days in the tuba online bulletin board scene.

I don't have a real Conn 120S, just a 7b and a FAXX 120S copy. They're probably not as sharp as the sharpest ever Hellebergs, but the rim is more than average flat and ...

Same in China actually. More factory robots than the rest of the world combined.

Tuba purchase as an investment sounds like a recipe for heartbreak, but then you can write a country western song and recover your money that way.

All we need is a handful of tubas that all sound exactly the same, in one alloy, and another handful of otherwise identical tubas made on the same line in the other alloy, that all sound exactly the same. Then perhaps you could note perceptible difference with some confidence.

Then you'd want to ...

so what happens if a british based company like Wessex or packer imports chinese horns to the UK, and then sells them to America? is there still the chinese tariff?


No. I mean, I am not an economist or anything, and I cast around for any specific treatment of this point and didn't find any, but ...

Sadly, it may be why that guy is POTUS, even if his predecessor was already on it in a more competent way. We already had tariffs on China, and we were investing in domestic technology and industry. That's what China is doing with trillions; we haven't, which is why we need to buy time with the ...

I see the tariff situation has shifted again, this time letting everyone else off for now, but doubling down on China - the headline say 125%. I read some where else that they were already 181% on cars "in some cases". Numbers vary. I imagine tubas are not a primary target here, they're likely to ...

I believe JK mouthpieces are retailed in Brazil, and might be a reasonable alternative to the DW 4L/5L - I don't know what depth though. I'd call the DW 5L a fairly deep mouthpiece, relative to inside cup diameter.

Any smaller than that, seems like it would be an eccentric choice. That doesn't mean ...

I'm sorry to say that this is not their unique problem. One problem - probably not the only one - is wear, eroding the tool that cuts the shape of the mouthpiece. There has been lots of fun comparing Bach tuba mouthpieces that should be the same, and Bach is a fairly well respected marque. This may ...

I see Jc Custom is still in business there. Of idle curiosity.

It seems to me that it's good to start with a popular but inexpensive design. Mouthpieces advertised in some form as as model 18, are presumably modeled after the Bach 18, which is arguably one of the most popular of all time, and ...

Supposing the circumstances arose, would you like to assume the role of composer?

If you're in the US, I don't think you ought to be paying any VAT? It's the other way around - when I import something into the EU, from the US or Switzerland or whatever, there's a tax duty. That same Value Added Tax is already included in the sale price when I buy something here, whether of ...