Db Tuba, a great story.

Benjamin · Post by **Benjamin** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:08 pm

So I'm a Sr. in high school. One of the little 8th grade kids at one of our middle schools was LOANED a horn. I want to make sure you get the loaned part. But anyways, he needed a horn to play on at home. He thought she (the director) gave it to him. Now, we're not the richest county in the state of VA so our school horns are alittle old. It had a very small hole in the lead pipe. So his dad cut off the first 5 or so inches of the pipe and replaced it with a copper tube about the same size. Soddered that sucker right on. When my band director told me I started rolling laughing, I know that's bad because it destroyed the horn but I could not believe that just happened. So I called the middle school and she said that the open note on the Tuba was a Db. (The horn is alittle 3 valve Holton BBb) I'm hopefully going to go play it tomorrow, that way I'll have extream bragging rights. How many of you can say you've played a Db tuba?

Alex C · Post by **Alex C** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 3:59 pm

Non-musicians don't understand that their non-music skills don't transfer to music.

I had a student whose parent who owned a body shop; he fixed a dent in his kid's trumpet..... well, you can guess the rest.

Ed Vinson · Post by **Ed Vinson** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 6:30 pm

Fedderly told me a good one...
Kid gets his mouthpiece stuck.
His dad puts the mp in a vice and
twists the whole leadpipe right off!

Tubaing · Post by **Tubaing** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:41 pm

Ed Vinson wrote:Fedderly told me a good one...
Kid gets his mouthpiece stuck.
His dad puts the mp in a vice and
twists the whole leadpipe right off!

Did he get the mouthpiece out?

Richardrichard9 · Post by **Richardrichard9** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 8:45 pm

It can still be fixed, I also had to replace the leadpipe on me holton 3 valve BBb tuba.

Though the leadpipe was hard to find, because of the conn selmer strike...

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:34 pm

Ed Vinson wrote:Fedderly told me a good one...
Kid gets his mouthpiece stuck.
His dad puts the mp in a vice and
twists the whole leadpipe right off!

I did something VERY similar once. I was using this 3/4 Yamaha and the mouthpiece got stuck. I really started twisting that piece with my hands and before I knew it, the leadpipe just snapped off at about the eight inch mark. I felt like such an idiot.

greatk82 · Post by **greatk82** » Thu Dec 13, 2007 10:35 pm

TexTuba wrote:
Ed Vinson wrote:Fedderly told me a good one...
Kid gets his mouthpiece stuck.
His dad puts the mp in a vice and
twists the whole leadpipe right off!
I did something VERY similar once. I was using this 3/4 Yamaha and the mouthpiece got stuck. I really started twisting that piece with my hands and before I knew it, the leadpipe just snapped off at about the eight inch mark. I felt like such an idiot.

Me too...I was trying to get a mouthpiece out of a sousaphone and the bits popped right out of the leadpipe. My face was red

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:08 am

Benjamin wrote:How many of you can say you've played a Db tuba?

I have. It's just a high pitch CC.

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 1:39 am

Thumbnails of a Schediwy (Ludwigsburg) Db tuba 3RV:
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Thumbnails of a pre-WWI Cerveny Db helicon 4RV - the old style Cyrillic letters of the shield indicate, that this instrument was intended for the Russian market:
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Benjamin · Post by **Benjamin** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 2:12 pm

Well, I've never had a mouth piece get stuck. But one time at a football game it was like 20 degrees and I left my Sousa down for about 15 min, IDK what I was doing but it was not playing. Picked it back up to play it, tried to move it and POP! Sucker broke right where it screws into the horn. But our school had plenty extras. (Thank God!)

jbaylies · Post by **jbaylies** » Fri Dec 14, 2007 4:53 pm

Ed Vinson wrote:Fedderly told me a good one...
Kid gets his mouthpiece stuck.
His dad puts the mp in a vice and
twists the whole leadpipe right off!

My music teacher's dad did that to his trumpet, too. Ripped all the braces right off!

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