manufacturing challenge
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Re: manufacturing challenge
In Bb that would sound very interesting to me.
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Re: manufacturing challenge
Sounds like a Hirsbrunner HBS 290 (HB2) or Rudi 4345 CC rotary... but probably not within your definition of 5/4bloke wrote:- 5 valves
- 5/4 size
- key of C
- high quality build (i.e. "better grade than a $1500 - $2000 wholesale cost instrument")
- EXCELLENT INTONATION
- bore size .768" or smaller (.748" would be fine, if a piston model)
- conservative taper mouthpipe tube
- 37" tall "piggy" profile
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Re: manufacturing challenge
Uber bias, here... Sure sounds like the 3050rz, up to the "piggy profile" bit. Although, I am also not sure I know what that means. Target bell size, Joe?
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Re: manufacturing challenge
The Willson is 37" tall.
Mouthpipe taper... Ok, missed that one, and not sure how to tell.
Mouthpipe taper... Ok, missed that one, and not sure how to tell.
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Re: manufacturing challenge
I may not be able to hear the grass grow, but it surely isn't a dud. I don't pull slides and do very little work besides mashing the normal buttons. No complaints from me, and i wouldnt put up with crap... but I know we all have our own tolerances!
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No clue, Joe. I haven't spent enough time with the piston 3050 to really know how the intonation tendencies compare. I am not the player who will tell you which partial is how many cents flat, nor do I pull/push slides with any regularity. I'm far more practical, in that when I mash the normal buttons, I get the sounds I expect. To my ear, it all sounds fine and easily correctable with minor adjustments. No complaints from those around me or the person waving his arms, so I guess it's going pretty well.bloke wrote:If tendencies are similar to those of the 3050 piston version, I had to have my pinky on #3 and my thumb/index on #1 (just as with Hb's, but with the opposition-direction intonation flaw with the D# just below the staff). (I had a 3050 on extended loan for the better part of a year. It was at the end of the time that the only tuba I owned was my F tuba.) When tubas - which are here - require that much manipulation, they go on the auction block.
More-highly-discriminating players will, naturally, be more discriminating.
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Re: manufacturing challenge
the most important thing about bore is that it is a leadpipe parameter. a really good leadpipe that happens to be long can have a gnarly-looking bore size, and vice-versa for a good leadpipe that happens to be short.
If a smaller-bore Piggy is what is desired, what about just putting a tighter leadpipe on one?
If a smaller-bore Piggy is what is desired, what about just putting a tighter leadpipe on one?
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Re: manufacturing challenge
maybe it's gonna be easier to find what you want in a taller design, and just get a van.
Just for now, until a manufacturer accepts your challenge.
Just for now, until a manufacturer accepts your challenge.