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My $0.02 - I had always thought of a tuba repair specialist as someone who was a tuba player, and therefore cared about them really playing well, who had the repair of tubas in mind when building/setting up a shop and buying tools, would try to stock all commonly-needed parts and have rod/bar stock, etc., to make parts when necessary, and would generally cater to the tuba-playing public.

I have told people, only half-jokingly, that I found a market niche doing what most instrument repair techs loathe, that being working on tubas. Yes, I understand Bloke's pain, and I will be seeing my chiropractor and massage therapist tomorrow. And yes, I could double my annual income if I arranged for a constant succession of trumpet, trombone, clarinet and saxophone repairs instead of engaging in the repair world's version of calf-roping and performing veterinarian services upon an 800 lb. heiffer. On days when I work on upper brass or woodwinds (and yes, I was trained in that, too), it is a treat to be able to wear nice clothes all day.

Now, back to the dungeon, I mean, cleaning room - two tubas await . . . .

(no real sense of "accomplishment", but who cares about that at the beginning of my 7th century on this earth?

I knew you were a little older than me, but I'm not done with my first century yet......

What Joe, Wade, and Lee said plus:

I work on tubas for two reasons...

1) I play tuba and when I got back into playing a little more than twenty years ago I learned very quickly that the local instrument repairmen either didn't know anything about them or just didn't want to fool with them.
2) I enjoy working on the 'big stuff'. I don't know much about woodwinds and the small brass bores the heck out of me.

It ain't the money!

YORK-aholic wrote:

Dan Schultz wrote:It ain't the money!

Coming soon to a cable channel near you:

Life styles of the rich and famous (tuba repair specialists)

HA!

Here in Peru we do not have good techs, just some repairmen that are so so.(I would never give them my tubas for demmanding jobs, only for align the valves and change felts, thats all). There are some guys raising as repairmen but I seen them on woowinds and trumpets only.

Where can I learm more about this? Is there something like a school for this? Sorry if It is so obvious, but I would really like to learn more about take care of my instruments myself as I do not trust much in local repairmen and can not travel once a year to USAor even Brasil (where seems to have good repairmen)

Warms from Peru!

Casca Grossa wrote:

bloke wrote:

I need a tuba repair specialist to make me one of these!!!

(drool)