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I am playing a new MW 25 for the first concert of our summer band tonight (remember: I'm the guy without a tuba). I am reminded of how little I have liked these tubas over the years. I would like to recommend to the director a few tweaks to improve this horn, given that certain things (spongy response, woofy low register) are just part of how this horn plays. Other than hard neoprene bumpers to quiet the valve bounce and lapping/realigning the 1st valve slide, what have you known to help these tubas?

Scooby Tuba wrote:They just have to be employed in the correct acoustic environment...

I knew I could count on you. I just got lucky that you were online at this very moment...

They have a MW 25 available for us to use at my community band, and I have to say. It plays horribly. It is so incredibly difficult to get to respond compared to the Miraphone 186's they have it isn't even funny. I kind of liked the sound it had once the dang note would finally speak. So I have to agree with Scooby Tuba's recommendation.