I enjoyed the video.

But bloke , nickel-brass or German silver has very close to the same density as plain brass. It may be very slightly higher depending on the alloy, but it’s within a fraction of a percent. Even metallic nickel is only a few percentage points mor dense than brass.

But it’s ...

I’ve looked at a few of Fred Young’s mouthpieces, and I would suggest the Reynolds version is out on the tail of the distribution. Most I’ve handled were shorter and cuppier, with the distinguishing feature being the lack of any backbore taper.

If the Holton Revelation 52 really similar, then I ...

"What instrument do you play?" "Tuba."

"What kind of musician are you?" "Untalented."

"What do you do with music?" "Harm."

"What tool do you use to inflict that harm?" "Tuba."

Repeat until the beer is gone.

(I don't think I've ever once used the word "tubist" or "tubaist" in reference to myself ...

That 5th valve looks interesting.


It could potentially be a 2 whole tone 5th valve, but I have seen this set up before on this era when someone got a replacement.


Yeah, it looks like the standard 5th-valve slide would fit there fine.

I wonder what the bore is for the 1st and 5th valves ...

My 1970 186's first valve is a bit leaky. And the stem was broken off in the past, and the shop I bought it from had silver-soldered it back on. That repair has held up just fine, but it still counts as the second strike against that valve.

As it happens, for some dumb reason that I later ...

bloke wrote: Wed Jul 01, 2026 10:58 am... tubaists...

Rick "sigh" Denney

Sorry I didn't have an answer but I am going to piggy back on this question with a related one...

What is the bare minimum set of tools to handle most dentwork? Neglecting things like trombone handslide mandrels and valve casing mandrels. If you goal was to bang debts out of bells, bugles and ...

My old Holton BBb always had the main slide out about an inch or so... until I got a nice ding in the main bugle right after it exits the valve block.. Now it's noticeably flat.. and I have the slide all the way in even on hot don't days. The worn valves don't help either. I've day i'll find s ...

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- It's really hard to play euph soft - so much like a bellering cow . You can back off, but you can never really get soft. You have to apply a certain amount of air pressure just to get it to speak.
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There's a funny 4 part comic strip that alludes to your comment here.

The tuba ...

...Therefore to properly propagate the fundamental, a closed room needs to be a little more than half this distance long to avoid a standing wave or a cancellation, or a little more than about 19 feet long. Any shorter than this and all you have are the overtones, and the discussion on the ...

I've got a really large and large bore tuba and a normal size and medium bore tuba that are both the same length, and I have yet another tuba that's much shorter and also medium size.

I can play a double low F on all three of them that's just below the range of the piano, but only after playing ...

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I'm aware of the existence of resultant tones, but Gail to see how that changes the fact that I can play the same note the same way in both a huge hall and a small room? I didn't have to open a door or anything to get the pitch to resonate. Obviously physics broke in that room, I guess. Or I'm ...

You are not developing the true fundamental.


Also known as "aliasing". Very, very little of the tuba's low range is fundamental. It's mostly upper overtones, and the brain 'imagines' the fundamental from those. Check it out on an oscilloscope.


An oscilloscope is time-domain, and it won't ...

They needed a third trombone player and I was willing to give it a try. I don’t think I did any harm.

Rick “they knew what I had to offer” Denney

Purcellville is only ten miles from my house and we go there often (it's the closest grocery store opportunity, among other things), but I don't know the seller. Lots of new folks have moved in, though.

But I already have a 186 and a 184, so nothing to tempt me even if it wasn't already sold.

Rick ...

Here's a link to the Bb 164 on Wichita's page:

https://www.wichitaband.com/product-page/new-alexander-model-164-kaisertuba-bbb-tuba-in-gold-brass-4-valves-lacquered

The pictures on Reverb are blocked on my work computer, but these show. And you can go from there to the others.

I would love ...

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I tried to play a euph solo in brass quintet, and quickly realized that I only could play the "loud" gear. My euph is a Wessex Festivo, which seems like an ok instrument to me (without much to compare it it to) . Soft gear must require something very un-trombonistic. It's gotta be the ...

Rick is correct about what brass players are taught to do with valves.
I don't know what Mr Jacobs taught, but his successor observed him moving his pistons slowly when playing the tuba solo in Mahler 1 - with his lips vibrating through the half valve as a vocal portamento. Admittedly, this ...

Lessee...first position is open, second position is second valve, third position is first valve, fourth position is valves 1 and 2 (or 3 by itself), fifth position is valves 2 and 3, sixth position (or F trigger) is the fourth valve, and seventh position (or the F trigger plus second position) is ...

sorry...didn't see that question.
With near certainty, the threads are M3x.5
Your local hobby shop should have this in stainless steel all-thread, whereby you can cut it to the needed length and (if you manage to move all that stuff yourself) use the all-thread temporarily.

Hey no sweat! Only ...