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My valves were getting sluggish even after oiling so I thought it might be time to run a snake through the leadpipe and the top tuning slides. Here are a couple of samples of what I found in the leadpipe. Perhaps I should clean more often.

cyras21 wrote:hey, that looks like what they serve at the Marine's chow hall. lol

It may have been.

cyras21 wrote:hey, when was the last time you ran a snake through it? just curious.

Are you kiddin? You gotta have lots of slime in your horn to make the notes gracefully move throughout the horn!

WoodSheddin wrote:Here are a couple of samples of what I found in the leadpipe. Perhaps I should clean more often.

Thank you for that.

Rick "going to throw up now" Denney

cyras21 wrote:hey, when was the last time you ran a snake through it? just curious.

The horn is a little over a year old. That was also some demo slime as I bought it off the floor at Baltimore Brass.

Just as some things are better left unsaid, some things are better left unseen. If that exists in my tuba, I hope to just get it out without having to look at it. Ugh!

Like always say to my band kids when their horns are getting pretty gross...."You put that thing in your mouth?"

ken "I shouldn't talk its been awhile since I cleaned mine" k

As a teacher those photos are going to school....and when kid asks me why they should not be eating candy in band, or should brush their teether before playing...I am going to make them look at that !... Nice!!!!!

TubaRay wrote:Just as some things are better left unsaid, some things are better left unseen. If that exists in my tuba, I hope to just get it out without having to look at it. Ugh!

that's what I told him

That is the nastiest thing I've seen in a long long time.

It looks like some deep ocean floor fungus that never sees the light of day. You just destroyed a fragile ecosystem by removing it.

I just hope that the picture of young Sampson (with his lips on the leadpipe) was taken after the tuba was de-slimed.

WoodSheddin wrote:I thought it might be time to run a snake through the leadpipe and the top tuning slides...Perhaps I should clean more often.

Better than having your tuba instructor or, as the case may be, your commanding officer discover your "deposits."

I'm pretty sure there is stuff in there that doesn't even have a name yet.....