nasty gross and disgusting valves

tubatom91 · Post by **tubatom91** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:41 pm

My sousaphone keeps ejecting my spit all over my shirt out of the valve bottoms any way to corect this issue???

tubatom91 · Post by **tubatom91** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 5:49 pm

I cant wear one on the feild marching

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:31 pm

My souzy did the same thing until I took it completely apart and cleaned it thoroughly, including all of the valve casings and tubes. Now it drips clear.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 6:51 pm

Many people playing piston valves in many different disciplines have put a plastic or cloth catch-type cup for under the valve block.

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:00 pm

tubatom91 wrote:My sousaphone keeps ejecting my spit all over my shirt out of the valve bottoms any way to corect this issue???

Slip some prophylactics over the bottom valve caps.

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 9:42 pm

Dean E wrote:
tubatom91 wrote:My sousaphone keeps ejecting my spit all over my shirt out of the valve bottoms any way to corect this issue???
Slip some prophylactics over the bottom valve caps.

That would be the "safe" way to handle it ...

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 11:03 pm

Sounds like you got a tuber full of goober.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:00 am

Dean E wrote:
tubatom91 wrote:My sousaphone keeps ejecting my spit all over my shirt out of the valve bottoms any way to corect this issue???
Slip some prophylactics over the bottom valve caps.

That should attract some attention.

Lew · Post by **Lew** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 10:31 am

I have a plastic "grime gutter" that I have used on a sousaphone that had this problem. I don't see the tuba size online anywhere, but they are a cheap fix if you can find it.

http://www.music123.com/Jo-Ral-Grime-Gu ... 6825.music

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 11:50 am

TubaRay wrote:
Dean E wrote:
tubatom91 wrote:My sousaphone keeps ejecting my spit all over my shirt out of the valve bottoms any way to corect this issue???
Slip some prophylactics over the bottom valve caps.
That should attract some attention.

Espescially if you unroll them ALL THE WAY first...

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Sep 19, 2006 12:57 pm

http://www.dillonmusic.com/HeleoCart/Pr ... zwZQQUs%3d

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:11 am

Bob1062 wrote:
tubatom91 wrote:My sousaphone keeps ejecting my spit all over my shirt out of the valve bottoms any way to corect this issue???

Play a marching baritone!

That'd do it -- a marching tuba that's held out in front of you like a marching baritone ...

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 11:58 am

the elephant wrote:
windshieldbug wrote:
TubaRay wrote: That should attract some attention.
Espescially if you unroll them ALL THE WAY first...
You know that Trojan has been putting serial numbers on their condoms for some time now.

Well, I knew they were putting them on the Magnum XLs -- didn't know if they were numbering the smaller ones too ...

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:09 pm

the elephant wrote:
Kevin Hendrick wrote:
Bob1062 wrote:
Play a marching baritone!
That'd do it -- a marching tuba that's held out in front of you like a marching baritone ...
Sort of like the one in the middle?

Actually, more like a scaled-up version of this:

http://www.bassethoundmusic.com/fluba.html

(you'd probably need a wheel at the bottom of the peg -- I think I saw something like that in a Dr. Seuss book many years ago

)

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:25 pm

the elephant wrote:
Kevin Hendrick wrote:
the elephant wrote: You know that Trojan has been putting serial numbers on their condoms for some time now.
Well, I knew they were putting them on the Magnum XLs -- didn't know if they were numbering the smaller ones too ...
Yeah, the Magnum XLs. To see them you need to unroll them all the way to the very end. Of course, not too many guys have even needed to do that . . .

Oh, I know where they are -- just haven't had occasion to use the "little" ones (a.k.a. "tourniquets") ...

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Sun Aug 19, 2007 1:14 pm

bloke wrote:Wha'-bout foam rubber...or a sponge held with a rubber band or a chick's elastic hair band?

sounds like an excellent use for a tubenet thong....

Actually on my concert tuba i just a have a rolled up cloth (actually an old cloth diaper, from when my kids used them. They make great cleaning cloths!) under my valves.

It (spit) sort of goes with the territory, spit and or oil will eventually work its way out the bottom of the valves. The cleaner you can keep the horn the less disgusting it will be.

ken "spit happens" k

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