Upkeep

[MartyNeilan]

The air supply?? (Challenging those politicians who say pollution is good for the economy.)

[Dan Schultz]

Well.... THIS thread's off to a good start!

[Rick Denney]

What is the most costly part of the tuba to get repaired?
-Tom

The valves, depending on what's wrong. Tubas will play with a remarkable variety of dents, but even a no-frills valve replating job will cost more than most routine de-denting.

Rick "who can live with dents but not with sticky, leaky valves" Denney

[Chuck(G)]

I'm game. When you say "repaired", exactly what kind of damage and what kind of tuba (age) are you talking about? A destroyed bell or any large branch can really get expensive to re-fabricate.

Here's a gedankenexperiment(iis that the first time the word has been used on TubeNet?). Suppose we take one of the Chicago Yorks and we drop it in the middle of I-5 for a few hours. Then we rescue the carcass and any little bits we can still find and present our illustrious crew of professional brass techs with the box of remants.

Okay guys, sharpen your pencils! How much to resurrect the horn, money being no object (the project is underwritten by a generous grant of a billion yuan from the Gates Foundation)? And what would you charge the most for?

[KarlMarx]

Here's a gedankenexperiment(is that the first time the word has been used on TubeNet?)

De course dies mot esse une premier into le RöhrenNetz!

Ãœberraschend rien de Gedanken esse investerad into la redazione av hesum agora.

Carolus Multidamagious

[Captain Sousie]

Ich bin ein sofa. Ich bin ein Berlinner (jelly doughnut). And all of that stuff. Anyone care to translate for the non-deutch audience? Ich spreche kleiner deutch gut not everyone does.

Sou

[kegmcnabb]

Ich bin ein sofa.

Ich bin der Himmel
Ich bin das Wasser
Ich bin der Dreck unter deinen Walzen
Ich bin dein geheimer Schmutz
Und verlorenes Metallgeld
Unter deiner Ritze
Ich bin deine Ritze und Schlitze

Ich bin Wolke
Ich bin bestickt
Ich bin der Autor aller Felgen
Und Damast Paspeln
Ich bin der Chrome Dinette
Ich bin der Chrome Dinette
Ich bin Eier aller Arten

Ich bin alle Tage und Naechte
Ich bin alle Tage und Naechte

Ich bin hier
Und du bist mein Sofa
Ich bin hier
Und du bist mein Sofa
Ich bin hier
Und du bist mein Sofa

[Rick Denney]

Here's a gedankenexperiment(iis that the first time the word has been used on TubeNet?). Suppose we take one of the Chicago Yorks and we drop it in the middle of I-5 for a few hours. Then we rescue the carcass and any little bits we can still find and present our illustrious crew of professional brass techs with the box of remants.

Okay guys, sharpen your pencils! How much to resurrect the horn, money being no object (the project is underwritten by a generous grant of a billion yuan from the Gates Foundation)? And what would you charge the most for?

I would charge $40,000 (I don't know how many yuan that is, sorry). I would buy a Hirsbrunner HB-50, sandblast it, buff the crap out of it, go over it with a small hammer to make as many really small dents as possible, overhaul it, buff it some more, hire someone to engrave the bell, buff all the engraving off, and have it plated again.

Rick "betting nobody in Tubenet-land would ever know" Denney

[Chuck(G)]

Ich bin ein sofa. Ich bin ein Berlinner (jelly doughnut). And all of that stuff. Anyone care to translate for the non-deutch audience? Ich spreche kleiner deutch gut not everyone does.
Sou

It's not all Deutsch, but rather a mixture of languages. Too much trouble to puzzle out.

Kas pakels Å¡uniui uodegÄ…, jei ne jis pats and all that.

[Captain Sousie]

It's not all Deutsch, but rather a mixture of languages. Too much trouble to puzzle out.

Agreed