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Posted: **Fri May 13, 2005 10:08 pm**

So what happened to the resultant DDb that all the extra parts made up?

Posted: **Sat May 14, 2005 6:53 am**

The Hot Rod Tuba movement takes off! What an elegantly simple solution. Wish I had a fraction of Bloke's skills...

Posted: **Sat May 14, 2005 8:26 am**

It looks like all you had to do to get it into C was eliminate the leadpipe with the tuning slide in it. Did it need any additional cutting? I was looking at that BBb on eBay, but the tuning slide in the leadpipe kept me away. I'm glad it went to good use.

Posted: **Sat May 14, 2005 10:40 am**

If it's near 440, just lose the oboe player, and have everyone tune to you!

Posted: **Sat May 14, 2005 10:44 am**

Why are so many vintage big Eb's out of tune with themselves?

Posted: **Sat May 14, 2005 6:30 pm**

bloke wrote:bloke "who did an informal survey once a long time ago on TubeNet and was really surprised at how far down the list 'great intonation' was on folk's checklists for 'a good tuba' "

That's what they so many funny little "U" shaped tubes on the front for!

Posted: **Mon May 16, 2005 10:06 am**

jacobg wrote:Why are so many vintage big Eb's out of tune with themselves?

The bugle design is too fat. The taper design controls the pitch of the partials more than any other thing.

It is possible to adjust the taper here and there to make it work, but it seems to be a trial-and-error process rather than something that can be easily calculated. There is software that purports to tune a given bugle, and the German manufacturers use it, but I have this feeling that it works only within fairly narrow parameters, and I suspect tone color is not part of the optimization strategy.

Rick "who thinks Bloke's approach is also a trial-and-error process" Denney

Posted: **Tue May 17, 2005 10:37 pm**

DirtyErnie wrote:very fine line between genius and lunatic

...and I aim to erase it!

Posted: **Wed May 18, 2005 10:14 pm**

The more I'm seein' of this bad boy, the more I'm liking it!
Where is #5 gunna go? And what will the interval will be?

Posted: **Wed May 18, 2005 10:51 pm**

what kind of self-respecting tubist would have a "store-bought"BAT?

Posted: **Wed May 18, 2005 11:25 pm**

bloke wrote:I always prefer (if at all possible) to put the 5th valve past the main slide (big side), and lined up in such a way that the two sides of the main slide are nearly or exactly the same length. This helps keep the instrument shorter and more conical...and (again) less bugle-choppin'. Also, since the 5th valve is almost always used to play low pitches, having it be very large bore probably doesn't hurt

My thoughts exactly... what gave you the idea to try this at all- the way the helicon turned out?

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Mike (thinking that Buescher could have used someone like bloke) Keller

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 9:21 pm**

Has anything new been done to the Buescher?

Posted: **Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:44 pm**

Nice work! Too bad I'm not in the market for a CC!

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Another Buescher CC knocks itself out of the park...