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Thomas wrote: Tue Jul 15, 2025 12:31 pm Congrats to a very nice Tuba. I think I tested this particular instrument 3-4 months ago.

Thanks Thomas. Yes, it probably was the same RM and apparently I tested your (previously owned) Alex 164

It's a Rudy Meinl 5/4 BBb.


Hi Bort and all,
I think I have found your (sold?) RM twin. Bought it yesterday. It plays incredible for it's age and shape and has a fantastic sound. The sellers had also an older Alex 164. Also very nice sound. The RM was easier to play (not that the Alex was ...

I use a K&M stand in which the tuba is upright (bell pointed up). I prefer the bell up so others can't stand on the bell. This way the bell creates also a kind of barrier for others walking "around" the tuba. Not that others walk around my tuba, because i will scare 'm away with my angry face :wink ...

sidebar topic:
...I have always use the word “bright“ to describe sound which in which there are quite a few audible higher overtones present. To me, most of the tall European kaiser tubas are in the “bright” family (though not really those big wide-belled Cerveny ones, which sound more like ...

I have never seen black ones, but I own and owned Mira's with grey ones and owned a Mira with white ones. I think the white ones were the earliest versions. They work fine and don't see a reason to replace them by Dubro or something else. They can crack, but I would just replace them with new ones ...

That's too expensive for my flute...

Saw them a few times. Also last Febr. 15th in the Netherlands...still amazing!

Right now I can only play the tuba on my legs with the bell facing towards the ceiling at about 80 degrees. So it basically hangs towards my left hand and even with anti-slip shelf liner on my lap it still slowly falls to the left.


Do you mean that facing the ceiling is 0 degrees and you have ...

Does the slide even stay in with all that extra weight? ;-)

So, I have a 6 valve one of a kind Norwegian Star. I’m nothing more than a good amateur player playing in a brass band. No one in my band notices it. But fundraising playing Christmas Carols in the local shopping centre there was a particularly excited person watching. She waited until we breaked ...

It was not trying to contradict the vibration theory. I should have written “play it out” instead of “blow out”. The vibration theory makes sense. The air flow is indeed very limited, but not completely excluded I think.
In my case it was clear that “legato/ppp” pieces did not move the slide (or ...

...I don't see how I could possibly "blowing it out". Without my body absorbing vibration (using the stand) with the riser not absorbing nearly as much vibration as the floor in my house, I suspect it's being vibrated out.

Not really interested in screwing up the alignment of this slide...


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itipou wrote: Fri Nov 25, 2022 8:34 pm Thanks !

Any idea where I could order the neck and bits from ? in Europe would be great µ

Cheers

Thomann has reasonable priced bits for the Conn. Unfortunately I don't see a neck on their site. Just contact them. Maybe they can offer it too.

Has anyone actually experimented with one of those air mattress inflating bellows, a plastic tube (probably adapting the large one included down to a quite small one), and sustaining long pitches in that manner?[/i] 🤣


Not that I take an air mattress for experimenting, but whenever I "have to ...

bloke wrote: Mon Jul 11, 2022 2:19 pm The legend is REAL.

(Take that, naysayers!)

Would love to have chance to play one some day...can only dream of owning one ;-)

Name it: Mons Meg

I have heard all of the following: “SER-ven-ee”, “ser-VAY-née”, “CHER-ven-ee”, and “cher-VAY-née”. Based on what I know about Eastern European proper names, I suspect “CHER-ven-ee” is correct, but I just don’t know for sure. Anyone here have the definitive answer?


I think like the audio clip on ...

Here is the exact arrangement linked above, with the Johann Strauss Orchestra, FIVE HUNDRED BRASS PLAYERS , and the "King of Cheese" himself, André Rieu, in Amsterdam in 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py5M0JI9ceo

Now get out your big horn, put on some headphones, turn up the volume, and ...

sidebar topic:
...I have always use the word “bright“ to describe sound which in which there are quite a few audible higher overtones present. To me, most of the tall European kaiser tubas are in the “bright” family (though not really those big wide-belled Cerveny ones, which sound more like ...