bloke wrote: Fri Oct 16, 2026 8:46 pmworth it

shoot, I shoulda got this and sent it to be wade-o-phoned (scooped out rotors, valve branches all upsized)
funny how certain thoughts come up every few years

bloke wrote: Sun Oct 04, 2026 5:25 pm (Have you reported your troll thread to the moderators, yet?)

quit being mean, reconciling Oracle with Ellison being part of Trumps inner circle has got to be hard for a lot of people

Its former director, Giancarlo Guerrero, is a terrific musician and conductor. He left last year.


But an orchestra like this needs a Music Director first ( aka fundraiser), then a conductor. Artistic needs are certainly a top priority, but $$$$ keeps the machine running...

Do you think ...

Article source outside of FB:

https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/oracle-announces-partnership-with-nashville-symphony-2026-10-04/


Oracle is a shining example of great corporate philanthropy...


Oracle Larry Ellison is a shining example of great corporate philanthropy...
(I fixed ...

What communists are elected in the U.S.? I just see people on the other side of the spectrum ...extremists ...ignoring the law and the constitution... :bugeyes:

How does conditionalizing student loans violate the law and the constitution?

The universal guaranteed student loans, where the Feds ...

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Ask Mahler.
Doing some research--not sure if he knew the difference between the bass tuba and contrabass tuba (publishers would often add this in), but his own pen says "bass tuba"
https://cdn.imslp.org/images/thumb/pdfs/9f/a18f29f7428a2900737e11007dbec449077cd346.png
The 5th symphony ...

Thomann won't ship to the states.


I placed an order with Thomann on September 10 and received it September 18. Tariffs paid online prior to delivery through UPS. The only additional hassle was that signature was required on delivery, which meant heading to a local Staples store to pick up the ...

I'm sure you've seen this: https://www.thomannmusic.com/km_14945_kaiserbass_staender.htm

but with shipping and import fees... yeah, I'd be looking stateside. I'll keep my eye out for ya.


Thomann won't ship to the states. K&M flipped my enquiry to a stateside distributor who said they won't ...

Nemo wrote: Thu Sep 24, 2026 3:41 pm
That's a big part of it for me, too. 2-4 is just such an awkward fingering.

For the fast stuff have you tried reaching around with your left hand?

One of our increasingly pedantic threads here got my thinking about Dr. Fred Young, and I realized I hadn't corresponded with him in quite a while. A Google search enquiry reported he apparently passed away in March 2021 at the age of 90!
I sincerely hope for Dr Young to speak up here with a "news ...

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4 valve tubas - unless they are four valve compensating or have a really easy to use main slide trigger or something or other - really aren't much good.
Because the fourth partial tends to be flat, one and three usually works pretty well for C, low F isn't played all that often but it does ...

So how many people really have a factory-built 5-banger BBflat tuba? Factory or custom, they can't possibly have become common without my noticing. I don't think I have seen the big Kaiser tubas with a fifth valve. The first time I saw a 5-valve BBflat (186) was probably 10 years after high school ...

whatever happened to your Bohm & Meinl? If you sold it along do you mind telling me who's got it now? I would LOVE to have my old frosted silver B&M back, I got a Marzan a few years ago which is close but ..... anyways thought I'd send a note after stumbling across this old thread


...That's been ...

Bob Kolada wrote: Sun Nov 16, 2025 10:20 pm 6:38 here is fantastic. I've been on a giant German Bb binge lately and have been watching a lot of videos where I don't understand what the guy is saying. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ht1C1fnMWJQ

Dear God, please let me play Bruckner again before I die.

The gap between the New techs and old techs will continue to widen due to the loss of knowledge transfer in order to gatekeep a trade that much like mechanics is in desperate need of young eager people.
I call sour grapes (or, if you prefer BULLSH'T) on you for this. NONE of the repair ...

These type of posts can be annoying because almost every one of them eventually becomes the same decades-old argument over whether mouthpiece buzzing is good or bad.
Yes, buzzing a mouthpiece feels different from playing the tuba. The full instrument supplies acoustic impedance and resonant ...

The gap between the New techs and old techs will continue to widen due to the loss of knowledge transfer in order to gatekeep a trade that much like mechanics is in desperate need of young eager people.

I call sour grapes (or, if you prefer BULLSH'T) on you for this. NONE of the repair/artisans ...

Raise the question and we've all been conditioned to say the government should pay for it. The government should pay for it.
Locally, band parents agree that'd be important, but who wants their kid to do 1-2 years of trade study/apprenticeship to start out at 30k a year?

On a district or county ...