Extra vibration on first valve

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 7:55 pm

Your emboucher ?

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 12:58 pm

Could it be from the nut behind the tuba?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 1:10 pm

Sympathetic rattles in a tuba are very hard to pinpoint all by your lonesome. Get a friend to touch various parts of the horn while you're honking away on that low F. At some point, the rattle will cease. That should localize the culprit some.

I was being driven nuts by a rattle in a tuba that seemed to be sympathetic to certain notes. Couldn't find a thing, so in desperation, I snaked the horn out. Out pops a knob from one of those wall-mounted dimmer switches that had gotten wedged in sufficiently to keep from falling out, but loose enough to rattle.

Someone out there is probably wondering where the knob to his dimmer went...

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Nov 22, 2006 4:21 pm

Chuck(G) wrote:I was being driven nuts by a rattle in a tuba that seemed to be sympathetic to certain notes

Thank god it was just sympathetic. Imagine what it might've sounded like if it was a collaborator!