Can I practice with the bell off?

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BellFrontGuy
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Can I practice with the bell off?

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Hi TubeNet!

I'm a bass player learning to play the tuba, so forgive me if this answer her is obvious to any real brass player, but I have an old King Bb bell-front tuba...I'm wondering if there's a reason why I shouldn't practice with the bell unattached. I'm guessing it changes the pitch if I do that, right? Thanks for the help!
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You are correct, tone and pitch will suffer immensely.
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It will more or less play in B, the intonation will be marginal, and the tone will be terrible. You can do it, but it will be sort of like anti-practice: you will be worse than when you started. And you would have to change your name to BellOffGuy.

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