Titanium Tuba???

trseaman · Post by **trseaman** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:01 am

Okay all you home tuba builders, here's your chance to get some sheets of titanium!!!

http://www.govliquidation.com/list/e1884

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 12:39 am

Good God! THAT stuff is all .063 thick! A tuba made of that stuff would weigh a ton. It would take a hell of a lot of pounding to reduce it to a thickness that is usable. This is the stuff they make afterburner tubes and vector directors out of!

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:29 am

TubaTinker wrote:Good God! THAT stuff is all .063 thick! A tuba made of that stuff would weigh a ton. It would take a hell of a lot of pounding to reduce it to a thickness that is usable. This is the stuff they make afterburner tubes and vector directors out of!

I don't think titanium can be spun like brass or steel and it work-hardens very very quickly. I'll settle for a stainless steel tuba first...

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 1:55 am

Stomvi has some trumpets with titanium in the bell material...
supposedly bright enough that you need a permit

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 3:24 am

bloke wrote:That's got to be the biggest sheet house in the United States!

Â¡Si!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 10:04 am

mgilbert wrote:It was the first trumpet I've seen that was actually... tolerable!

That's what I heard latex trumpets were for. You know, the kind with the @@@@@ behind it...

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Tue Mar 14, 2006 4:31 pm

Roll it up and make flutes. John Landell's been making titanium headjoints for about a decade now and has even made a titanium flute (with silver keys).