king 1141 tuning slide?

[joeltruher]

I have a King marching tuba, model 1141, that plays quite flat, and I'd like to find a shorter tuning slide for it. It seems a little longer than it needs to be. It's the same diameter and spacing as the third-valve tuning slide, so i imagine it's some sort of King "standard". Can anyone help me?

[theatomizer13]

This might sound wierd but once in a while when i am flat if I pull out the tuning slide I go in tune. I think it may be that the tuba is sharp and I over compensate with my embouchure to make it too flat.

[joeltruher]

@KiltieTuba, yes, that's right, it's part of the lead pipe. My tuning slide seems purposely long, here's a picture:



the images i've seen around the web, e.g. below, don't have that extra length.

who can i call to find a replacement slide? i just don't know where to start.





@theatomizer13, yeah, i know what you mean, but that's not the case here. i'm playing as absolutely sharp as i can just to get it *almost* in tune. for awhile i was making things hard on myself by pushing *all* the slides in, which made the open notes relatively sharper than the rest.

[Art Hovey]

Why not just get out the torch and remove the extra segments of tubing that someone has apparently added to the legs of that slide? That's a simple and completely reversible operation.

[joeltruher]

well, anything's possible, i suppose, but the horn is in pretty good shape and plays well in every other respect.

i mean, the biggest variable is certainly always the *player*, and before i got another horn, a nice miraphone, i thought that i was to blame, but now that i have some comparison, i'm pretty sure it's the horn.

the idea of using 2341 parts is a good one; who could i ask about that?

[joeltruher]

ha, i should have thought of that. thanks for the advice!