old picture revealed...

[windshieldbug]

They are EVERYWHERE!

I'm surprised that you don't speak in code in these turbulent horns!

[pjv]

You know, even though you (theoretically) don't need this tuba.

The thought of owning one does haunt you, doesn't it? Just a bit? Right?

So (theoretically) owning one to practice on, because of it's sheer volume, can only help to improve your playing skills. I you can play it on a 98b, you can play it on anything.

[ppalan]

Hi Joe,
Just curious...couldn't help noticing you're using one of your own-design mouthpieces. Which one? Would you choose this one or was it just the one you happened to have with you?

Pete

[barry grrr-ero]

I've never before noticed the 4th valve set-up on the "Siegfried". I see that it's offset so that the 4th valve tubing is outboard to the far side (whatever you want to call that). Is that 4th valve a larger bore size, or does it just look that way?

The more pertinent question may be this: does Miraphone have plans of making a rotary CC tuba with this type of set up - it short, a CC version of the 98?

[Matt G]

Regarding the idea of water collection in that leadpipe...

It looks like some would collect at that low spot, but if the player slowly rotates the horn counterclockwise bell towards ground like they would normally when setting it down, gravity would pull the water into that P trap right before the valve cluster. Then the clockwise rotation back up would dump it towards the main tuning slide.

[Matt G]

Miraphone is willing to make a contrabass trombone with that slide design. Seems like a tuning slide would require less precision.

[Matt G]

Likely.

Would be interesting to try on a horn that already has a fifth valve “pretzel” on it with sufficient room to cut in the extra tubing.

If someone could find an older MW 32 with the swappable fifth valve and didn’t mind staying in “2-3” mode, it looks pretty easy.