Posted: Mon Aug 02, 2004 7:18 pm
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Well... I use an apperson mute on my Miraphone 186 and your bell isn't much bigger.
Doug Black
I had a chicken in my bell once!thomaji wrote:a large cat
No, my big cat (17 pounds) won't allow me to play below BBb...he has habit of, well....got any cat litter?thomaji wrote:a large cat
I would be curious about the details, as I use the same HB 208 mute for two different tubas, and need to set the corks up for two different bell throat diameters.TonyZ wrote:My odl teacher used the big HB mute on his tuba, (4/4 Alex) and to get the right amout of cork, he created sliders made from wine corks, and clamped them on the existing cork. He could then adjust the mute to wherever he wanted. Quite ingenious, really, and there was no permanent change to the existing cork!
The teacher is Monty Burch of the Grand Rapids (MI) symphony. The parts that he had were metal, about 1.5 inches long, "U" shaped, and fit snugly over the existing cork. He attached wine corks to the metal, so that when you slid the new "spacer" onto the existing cork, you could adjust the depth of the mute. I suppose he had some way to make the sliders stay in place, but I can't remember that. He also cut his own mouthpieces when he worked for Schilke -- a well-rounded fellow, to say the least. Seems to me that many tubists are handy like that, but that is another post....Z-Tuba Dude wrote:I would be curious about the details, as I use the same HB 208 mute for two different tubas, and need to set the corks up for two different bell throat diameters.TonyZ wrote:My odl teacher used the big HB mute on his tuba, (4/4 Alex) and to get the right amout of cork, he created sliders made from wine corks, and clamped them on the existing cork. He could then adjust the mute to wherever he wanted. Quite ingenious, really, and there was no permanent change to the existing cork!