These two photos are from a few years ago (March 2019) from the Pomona Concert Band's Winter Concert (California) . We played a special custom arrangement that required the Tubas to be muted. It was a struggle to find enough mutes to go around for seven Tubas.

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I made the mistake of trying to learn CC fingerings during my lessons in the fall of 1978, while playing sousaphone in my college marching band at the same time. It did NOT go very well... I was lured in by a brand new Miraphone CC 186 that the school had bought for the Fall Semester, and I was the ...

I was so sad to hear about Jim's passing at my rehearsal last Tuesday night. He was my Tuba teacher when I was at Long Beach State University in 1976-77. I kept in touch with him every year at the Los Angeles Tuba Christmas and was really looking forward to visiting with him again next month. Rest ...

Hey Bloke, I just sent you an email to order the felts, since this forum says I haven't been a user long enough to have earned the right to use the Private Messaging service yet.

I did not realize that everybody moved to this new TubaForum.net, shame on me... I need to find replacement felts for the valves on my BBb Holton 345. When Dan Oberloh restored it back in 2010 he used factory style felts, but they didn't last very long and collapsed into mush. So I got a set of ...

I did not realize that everybody moved to this new TubaForum.net, shame on me... I need to find replacement felts for the valves on my BBb Holton 345. When Dan Oberloh restored it back in 2010 he used factory style felts, but they didn't last very long and collapsed into mush. So I got a set of ...