I recently got a TrumCor Stealth practice mute. I have trouble getting notes to speak and can hardly get notes below the staff to speak at all. Would it help to put some shims on the mute to give a little more clearance at the bell throat. I haven't tried this yet. As it is now, the mute is mostly ...

It's been about four years that I've been playing tuba more seriously and joined a Brass Quartet at Church, playing about once a month. I've also found a tuba, a Piggy, that works great for me. At times when playing with the group I experience great pleasure. Simple slow pieces where everything is ...

HI Mark,
Thanks for your comments. I need to go thru a tuning chart for the horn and decide whether I actually need anything to correct the tuning. So far the horn is mostly in tune with my quartet at Church, but I'm sure I could develop a tuning chart to see exactly where everything is falling ...

I'm really enjoying playing my new-to-me Piggy. It seems like the initial questions about intonation are resolving as I play the horn more...I seem to be
learning to lip most notes into tune and I am learning a few alternate fingerings for other notes. I love the tone and it is lighter than any ...

Bloke,
It's great to hear about your granddaughter's exploits. Kids today...some of them...seem scary smart and accomplished.

I hope you will keep her supplied with trumpets which are commensurate with her ability level. If she's in jazz band, she
may soon want a "screamer."


royjohn
Old Guy ...

I'm in Knoxville, TN an have a Mack 410 you might borrow if we could arrange a meetup.PM me if interested.
royjohn

This is not related to the YCB-623, but to the clip of playing it by Tindall. I'm trying to figure out my optimal embouchure motion and I was interested to see that Tindall has quite a bit of motion, down for low notes and up and way to the right for high register. I won't worry so much about how ...

arpthark wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:47 pm
Glad you found a Pig!
bort wrote Yeah!

How? Where? Seems like they're hard to find these days!


Couldn't find a Piggy in the East and was about to head out to see Chaz Warren's Piggy that he played for years at Disneyland, but a friend pointed out ...

I'm enjoying my new-to-me Cerveny Piggy, which is prolly a '90's model. I've tried various mouthpieces in it without deciding any one is much better than the others...I've heard people call these tubas mouthpiece sensitive and I wonder what other people like to play in them.
royjohn
old guy, tuba ...

Well, I went up to Buckeye Brass and Winds last week and tried their 4 valve Piggy...they had sold the 5 valve they had a few days before I got there. Rob Phillips and Shawn were both very accommodating and helpful. Buckeye is a good place to try horns because it is in a converted church, so there ...

If you pull the tuning slide on the tuba and look at what a tuner does, maybe you can get it to go down a half tone. Measure how far out it is and that is an estimate of how much will need to be cut off. It will be close, but probably a little too much. Just measure from all the way in to a half ...

I haven't played them all, but when I discovered Clarke's Characteristic Studies, I thought they were really beautiful music. The Technical Studies will really work your technique out, but the Characteristic Studies are very pretty.
royjohn

I'm thinking of changing from my Mack 410 to a Piggy...the reasons being to get a darker, more colorful sound and to get a somewhat greater volume capability. I wonder if the Piggy is going to be an air hog. I have heard people say it plays easily and other folks say that it plays big "if pushed." I ...

I'm looking for someone to try out and assess a CC tuba for me that is located in West Anaheim, CA. I'm in Tennessee and don't want to spend the $$$ to travel out there unless the horn is a distinct possibility for me. I'd be willing to pay someone to do this. PM me if you are interested.
Thanks ...

I'll check with Lee, but he has a Lidl F tuba listed for $6750 and I am guessing that the Piggy variant is about that price or more...which is way beyond my budget. I will just stay with the 410 I have unless I can find something for under $4K.
-royjohn

arpthark wrote;

That is ultimately the reason I didn't purchase that one in California without being able to try it first.
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...and that is my situation, exactly. If it were cheap enough, I might take a chance and fly out to try it, but I can't afford to do it. If I'd already had a scheduled ...

I am looking for a CC Piggy or Yamaha 661 to try/buy. I am in Tennessee but can travel most places east of the Mississippi or within 700 miles of Knoxville. Condition not that important as long as it plays well...in fact, I love raw brass...
Thanks,
royjohn

We had a discussion once about private individuals taking someone's tuba somewhere and it was pointed out that if they didn't own the horn, and there was a crash or it was stolen, the car owner's insurance would not cover the horn. You could possibly be covered if you technically sold the shipper ...

Just wondering if any of you have been to Geffen Hall since the reopening and can report on how it sounds, esp. the bass and the tuba in particular.
I see some good reports, but nothing in particular about the bass response...it sounds OK on the computer in sound clips, but that doesn't tell you ...

Oh, to have been a fly on the wall to have watched those "homespun" techniques!

I'll bet if bloke hadn't been performing for an audience, he would have been watching Perry Mason while working on that horn!
royjohn, tuba newbie who uses "homespun" performance techniques...LOL