1. Eastman 836

2. Purchased 2021

3. I got it new.

4. It came with a shires mouthpiece when I go it. Never really used it much.

5. I currently use a Sellmansberger OG Ultimate. When I first got the horn I used a PT-50 for a bit and then an orchestra grand three piece and finally the og ultimate.

Just putting this here in case anyone is looking at this horn.

I got the opportunity to try one of these tubas when I was getting something else from Mack Brass. These are fantastic BBb tubas, I was super impressed with how great the response was. It almost made me reconsider plans to buy one ...

My experience with BBb vs CC is much less enlightened than all y'alls.

I own a CC and am in a military fleet band, I used my CC for brass quintet, a government BBb for concert band and sousaphone for all the marching stuff initially. The conductor at the time had a strong preference that all the ...

I guess one of the dangers of routines is that they become... well... routine, and we stop focusing on the bigger picture of what we are trying to improve one and stop evaluating whether what we are doing is actually moving the needle. I am super guilty of playing some exercises just because they ...

Just lurking here. I will through another vote for Schlipf Mnozil Tour mute. It works well for my purposes.

0/10 mouthpiece, it didn't fix my rhythm

But on a more real not this is a GREAT mouthpiece. Good enough that I finally made an account here instead of just lurking just to write this.

I was very excited to be a part of the first run of this mouthpiece, as I play on the 3-piece model from which it ...