I even warned you that I was trolling you, but you still didn't catch on. :smilie7: but even so, I can see golfers who win serious money every year spending money on crazy expensive clubs, because they're actually hitting real balls and winning real money and probably having real fun... and the same...

I made some pretty nice acoustic recordings with some $50 (adjusted for inflation: maybe $800 for the pair) Shure microphones back in the 1970s with a Kenwood cassette deck, as well as an Akai (their nicest 1/4") reel-to-reel. Later, I learned how to make really nice recordings on video tape wi...

Most people who have these typically hoard them. Allied Supply (Getzen-owned, and next door to Getzen...and I wouldn't be surprised at all if these are locally subcontracted, and not even made by Getzen) ofters aftermarket pistons to fit these instruments. My guess (...?? - and this represents a mod...

Given that's what I do -- start loud (or maybe I would call making the entrance "distinct") and then lighten up, the point being to make sure that the "note that is the indicator of the beat" can be heard, but then back off to be part of the harmony, I think it's to conserve air...

If B-flat minor and major, that would really be fun, and if only in the original.
I had some half step extension junk that I rigged up to fit my model 5450 C tuba, which allowed me to play that piece in the open key, and it was fun.

OK.. That's fine. I'll remind you that I'm just a blue collar tuba player and not some audiophile. The finest amplifiers and speakers always still sound like recordings to me, so I'm never that picky when listening to recordings. The download seemed to boost the highs and lows and add front to audio...

I don't think it's politically popular to remind everyone of this or to point out that Mr. Jacobs orchestral technique involved a lot of "front". In other words: attacks, and backing off afterwards. Trumpet player friends of mine who studied with him make a little bit of fun of it, but in ...

The huge Miraphone is pretty close to In tune given various first valve slide positions and the way I've got the valves' circuits set up. There are two or three pitches that try to be slightly flat or slightly sharp, but not much. What I try to do with those pitches is to get in the habit of pulling...

I guess that's what would happen, but it's just as much a comment on postmodern wokeness than anything.

Thanks for the great input, everyone. I imagine the mic has the most to do with it, but I will ask the conductor (he's a friend of mine) as well. Maybe it's the hall, too? I attended the same orchestra's final concert the year before I joined again and the tuba player (another friend of mine) was u...

WRITTEN chord analysis reminds me of so much other stuff about "college". Most things taught are "ABOUT" stuff, and very few things that are taught are "how to DO stuff". Looking at a piece of music's staves and music notes - and being able to "analyze" the ch...

"Blending" is a goal, but "getting swallowed up in the corporate sound" probably is only a sometimes-and-not-all-that-often goal. If you could stand to listen to that (long) Mendelssohn overture, you may have noticed that - sometimes - I disappeared into the texture (ie. "OK...

As you can see, it's certainly an easy thing to do...as long as you can locate a short/tight-turn water key assembly that you like. Again...I was just about out of things like this, so I had to look in cabinet drawers that I normally don't open (ie. not-particularly-elegant Elkhart Conn trumpet part...

Tubajug Tell your conductor friend that you're going to see about playing out a bit more, that you're going to temper it with taste/judgement, but - if too much - just let you know at the break (and whether "overall" or "particular passages" - etc.) If you get negative feedback,...

If a comment on the Buescher (in a thread about "playing older instruments on older pieces") is OK... If one looks at the various lengths of vertical slide tubing, the valveset B-flat - to - C conversion may be a good bit simpler than with side-action piston instruments, as (notice the cho...

I had a recording B-flat (19" bell) Buescher 4-valve top-action B-flat (c. .726" bore) to which I was adding a 5th rotor, removed the (typical with Buescher L-O-N-G pre-valve main tuning slide) for C length, and was converting the small bow POST-valves into the main slide...but I just have...

Tubas that inherently offer more "fist" in their sonority (as demonstrated with the "Concerto for Orchestra" outtakes) seem to be easier for microphones to "hear" (more high overtones, yes?) The F tuba thing that I posted (Mendelssohn - where I was sort-of trying to be ...

Being redundant, that second slide on top action instrument seems to collect a lot of water in a critical place, and there's not much room in that bow for water to pool up without it beginning to gurgle pretty soon. Even before the gurgling starts, it can cause me to goof up higher pitches with the ...

This was an under-rehearsed performance of Concerto for Orchestra. Mrs. bloke sat up in the mezzanine with my iPhone 5 and turned it on every time it looked like I was getting ready to play the tuba. This was right after I finished my Holton project - which is very similar to yours, and was chomping...

I'm the same guy who puts water keys on upper #1 slides on top-action piston tubas, because I don't like pulling out those slides (more clanking noises) and dumping them, either..."tilt, open, depress #1, blow gently".