Second slides are more difficult to twist because the space between the two pairs of tubes is typically quite narrow.
It's usually the only slide that I would (possibly) consider doing something like beating on (in the crotch of the slide bow) with something like a quarter inch round Phillips ...

I will put my usual lack of two cents in that the first real tuba I owned, a MW 182 F, what I noted was that the low C actually wanted to center considerably sharper than C, and that I thought a whole lot of extra tubing might make it more playable. However I sold it and it is now in Pittsburgh ...

AvrTuba wrote: Fri Oct 23, 2026 3:54 pm https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/updates/

Oh look, they also need $10,000,000...

I tend to wonder what many of these executive directors are ACTUALLY qualified to do. (sack groceries... or would they put the eggs underneath the frozen meat ??)

Those in that age bracket should stop for just a moment and think about all the things money have done for them up to that point in their lives, consider a life without money, and then look at the skill set or discipline they are pursuing and decide whether they love it so much that they would do it ...

Those that are similar to B&S rotary tubas are not going to play as well as (or at least not "just like") the best of the genuine models, because the Eastman mouthpipe tube doesn't begin as small as the genuine model's does.

Realize - or be currently informed - that the original Symphonie model ...

A DMA in tuba?

In this economy?


Hey, everyone needs a hobby. :laugh:


My 16-year-old granddaughter plays horn well enough to work in many per-service American orchestras - even as principal and (as fearless as she is) probably would do best as principal, as she plays as a principal player ...

immediately previous response:
"thank/agree-with, conditionally"

- A very large percentage of working orchestral musicians I know really do not enjoy sitting all day listening to cattle calls behind a bed sheet (often without being paid), particularly not when it's someone who's not in their own ...

I'm still trying to find non-poisonous cat food for my cat. That tends to go the direction of specialty raw. I found some I was willing to try due to the lack of chemicals added, and the food came to $64. They wanted $81 to ship it. Back to sardines and hamburger and raw chicken, and even if the ...

If some parts supplier rapes me on the shipping, I can then - in turn - rape the person that owns the instrument I'm repairing.
In particular, institutional owners of instruments don't give a damn what they are charged for anything in particular, because it's not their money.

If I'm buying ...

If no one knocked the thing over when you were away from playing, there's about a 99.5% chance that it's just spit stuck.

It stinks, but if you put some PB Blaster between the valve and the casing and use some fairly convincing but not overwhelming type of force to get it to move a little bit ...

I've mentioned before that most of the Oktoberfest jobs I've played over my lifetime have been with Bob Westbrook at the accordion.
Most of his income came from coaching young singers including Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake, along with many others, and his secondary income came from booking ...

My stuff probably ships from their warehouse out of a suburb of Atlanta, which is on the western (favorable to me) side.

I know good and well I could have shipped those two boxes of rivets through the post office for $12 (Priority Mail) and - even if I wanted to charge $5 handling - that would ...

Mrs bloke's car needed gas badly.
We went up into town and filled it up and stop at this little carpet and flooring store. The lady gave us a stack of discontinued samples of low pile carpeting... So I now have some to bolt to the flange to protect the amplifier from scratching.
I went around the ...

Why not just put a sheet (with holes for the mouth and hands) over each applicant?
A screen blocks out the true resonance of the Chinese tubas.

bisontuba wrote: Thu Oct 22, 2026 11:47 am Screens are needed...
so that the best person wins.
And depending on the orchestra, a music director can have final say, have a weighted vote, or in two large orchestra sections, no vote at all...

I was willing to pay TWICE the amount per rivet from McMaster, but I know damn well that I could have shipped those two little raisin boxes full of rivets most anywhere in the United States for $10 to $12 Priority Mai including insurance for up to $100.

....so I went to a more wholesale type of ...

I usually withhold comments when things are for sale, but since this has been sold, maybe it's okay to comment on the general style of the instrument...(??)

I tend to suspect that these JUMBO sousaphones weren't originally bought with the intention of marching with them (nor even shouldering them ...

The LAPO has a husband-and-wife in its horn section.
connections? of course.
competence? I worked (for quite a few years) with the SECOND spouse hired into that section...' remarkable competence.

as we've been steered off-topic, once again...

Of course, music directors should be able to hire whomever they see fit to hire, and for whatever reason.
Very few businesses hold "blind interviews".
Hiring someone because they play extremely well (or really know their stuff in engineering, or ...

Okay.
I ended up buying a new pair of wheels, their tires are solid rubber and quite heavy, but the important thing is that from the middle of the axle hole to the most extreme tangent of the rubber is less than 4 inches, which defines that the tires don't rub on whatever is being toted on those ...