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Jeff Funderburk has posted 14 free videos on tuba maintenance. I have them all collected here (along with the video of Jeff's performance of the Broughton Sonata):

http://www.dwerden.com/music-videos/tub ... Funderburk

Very useful! (Even euphonium players who play on piston valves can find interesting material in a couple of them: "Slide Lubrication" and "Caring for the Finish.")

Here are the topics covered:

Tuba Repair #1 Basic Repair Tools
Tuba Repair #2 Rotary Valve Parts
Tuba Repair #3 Rotary Valve Linkages
Tuba Repair #4 Rotary Valve Lubrication
Tuba Repair #5 Slide Lubrication
Tuba Repair #6 Caring for the Finish
Tuba Repair #7 Stuck Slides
Tuba Repair #8 Sluggish Rotary Valves
Tuba Repair #9 Noisy Valves
Tuba Repair #10 Bumper Replacement
Tuba Repair #11 Valve Tolerances
Tuba Repair #12 Rotary Valve Removal
Tuba Repair #13 Rotary Valve Cleaning
Tuba Repair #14 Rotary Valve Reassembly

We owe Jeff a big Thank-You for making these resources available!

I actually contacted Dr. Funderburk sometime last year regarding these videos. Here's what he had to say, for those interested:

Jeff Funderburk wrote:I think it was 1988 or 1989 that we did the original taping. We used a Meinl Weston model 30 that the school owned for the demonstrations. It was coated in a film of soap to help keep down the reflections for the cameras. The video was produced in cooperation with the Radio/TV department and served as the final masters project for 5 Radio/TV graduate students. They spent 300 hours editing the various closeups into the final video.

The videos are pretty useful for those of us with rotary valve tubas. I still don't feel comfortable with some of the stuff he details, though (muriatic acid, blowtorch ) and take my horn to a tech.


Nice video of the Broughton, too.

Thanks for adding that background on the videos. It's always fun to know how these things come to be.

SEAN! STICKY! MAKE THESE LINKS INTO A REFERENCE STICKY!

Thanks, Dave, for posting. Great videos!

These vids are great--they have saved me alot of time and money over the years

JJ