bloke wrote: Tue Mar 03, 2026 8:41 am Jim Self [...] made up some funny name for it, but I don't recall the humorous name.

Was it "tuba on a stick"?

I've found your Shallowburger on my Červený 652 to be an excellent fit. The .715" bore is on the large side, but it's about as much fun as you can have with your pants still on when it's all going like the clappers at a Puccini gig

Valved bass/contrabass trombones, whether straight or bent, have been around for over a century, here's a bent Bb from the early 1900s. There's a YouTube video from a bass trombonist who mostly plays period instruments now, he has a video playing an early 1900s bent 4 valve F that sounds really ...

I recall at one of the big tuba shindigs of the past just about that time period Jim Self strutting out on stage and playing one.
He was playing some funky riffs and such on his.
He made up some funny name for it, but I don't recall the humorous name.
I didn't address your original post directly ...

Good job! Minor corrections:


Thank you for these - I'll work through them over the weekend. I'd also like to expand an "orchestral repertoire" section, with score snippets of maybe the top three excerpts. Now there's a poll... top three tuba excerpts? In auditions? By difficulty? Notability ...

I have a question about the invention of the (modern F) cimbasso. Cliff Bevan, in The Tuba Family (2nd ed., 2000) wrote on p. 420: "in 1985 Josef Meinl of Neustadt an der Aich built a cimbasso for the Mannheim Oper. His instruments are now in use from Japan to the United States." Was Josef Meinl ...

Here it is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuba
I've been working on it for a while, but I'm at a point where I'd like to get some opinions on it - helpful suggestions, omissions, and withering criticism welcome, particularly around the tuba in the US of A, which I'm not as familiar with, being from ...

I haven't, but I very much suspect you wouldn't be disappointed...

I wonder what will become of the three books he was in the middle of writing - I gather one of which was a new third edition of The Tuba Family.