Buying or Obtaining your Tuba

finnbogi · Post by **finnbogi** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:12 am

Bob1062 wrote:Welcome to the Chainsaw Operators club! Here's your goggles and earplugs!!

Thanks Bob. Since I mostly operate my chainsaw sitting in front of a big band trumpet line-up, I really need those earplugs.

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 9:24 am

finnbogi wrote:
Bob1062 wrote:Welcome to the Chainsaw Operators club! Here's your goggles and earplugs!!
Thanks Bob. Since I mostly operate my chainsaw sitting in front of a big band trumpet line-up, I really need those earplugs.

When I played bass bone in my college bigband, the 4th trumpet player was about 4 1/2 feet tall (no kidding.) He would stand right behind me, but his bell was right at the back of my head.

http://www.etymotic.com/ephp/er20.aspx

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 11:48 am

pierso20 wrote:
LoyalTubist wrote:If you are a laborer of any kind (including school teacher, counselor, cop, non celebrity musician, dentist*, or physician*) and pay full price for a tuba, you paid too much.

____________________________
* Not all of them earn the big bucks.
This is true......partially.....though, it depends of course....you could still be a laborer and have money.

In other words...drive a beater and play a shiny new horn....possibly??

No. You can still buy a shiny tuba at a discount place. Even if I were megarich I would still be the megacheap guy I am.

Donn · Post by **Donn** » Fri Sep 07, 2007 3:47 pm

I bought mine, with cash, but since I started in my 30s and don't have kids, it's more about where to find room to store them than how to pay for them. On the money issue, though, I have not noticed any positive correlation between price and satisfaction. The only really expensive one was the one I was the most glad to get rid of, at a considerable loss (Bb 190), and I frankly regret ever having paid more than $800 for a tuba. The tuba I actually play is a Pan American Eb Giant Bass for $320 or thereabouts, I forget. A player with higher aspirations would probably have to move a lot farther up the curve, but how much you pay in the end is a function of how well you know what you want, I think.

bearphonium · Post by **bearphonium** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 12:27 am

Bought mine from fpoon, right here on TubeNet. York Master 3/4 BBb. Paid cash (well, PayPal cash). Tuba was shipped cross country (Blacksburg to Eugene) with no issues at all.

Ally"who is looking real hard at a King silver sousie but can't buy it until tax check time"House

Jack Denniston · Post by **Jack Denniston** » Sun Sep 09, 2007 6:53 pm

I bought my first tuba from Bill Bell. After my freshmen year at IU, playing a school horn (I think it was a rotary valve King), I worked all summer at the lumberyard back home in Newton Iowa and saved up enough for a brand new Bell model MW CC with 5 rotary valves. The 5th valve was operated with the left hand. It had a detachable upright bell. I think it cost $950 with mouthpiece and hard case.