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

I cant wear one on the feild marching

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.

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

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.

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 ...

Sounds like you got a tuber full of goober.

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.

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

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 )

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") ...

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