Tuba - Instrument of Healing?

[imperialbari]

I tend to see the reason in the area of psychophysiology.

All of our activities are improved by a raised hormone level (within reasonable limits). By playing tuba you enjoy yourself in mental and in physical ways. Adrenaline and endorphins pour through your system, as do likely several other useful hormones.

If you walk after playing the tuba, your whole motor apparatus will benefit from the hormone lubrication until metabolism gradually has lowered the hormone level again.

Klaus

[windshieldbug]

For more anecdotal information, I believe that tuba playing greatly accelerated my recovery from a traumatic brain injury and coma.

Or perhaps it was just annoying conductors. Semi-conductors, as it were...

[ppalan]

I hope this isn't hijacking the thread. That surely isn't my intent but this is somewhat related:
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=757219510993856
Pete

[imperialbari]

If synnapses had healed or rerouting had happened in your case, the results wouldn't be temporary. Exactly the temporary nature of your improvements points towards fluctuations in the hormone levels.

Klaus

[macwinty]

a bit "new-agey", in that it's being referred to as "vibrational medicine", but here's a link to an interesting take on the subject:

http://www.amazon.ca/Vibrational-Medici ... 1879181584" target="_blank

Lots of stuff out there about using light (lasers) for healing, also sound waves, so why not tuba?

[swillafew]

As for healing, I play guitar every Wednesday at a nearby hospital, and I hear anecdotes about people doing better on account of it. The benefits might be intangible but they are not unrecognized.

As for tuba, I always put one down in a better mood than when I started.

You see some snarky posts here and you know a few scale routines smooth everything right away.

[iiipopes]

I have genetic Anti-Thrombin III disorder. Once my blood starts clotting, it doesn't stop. It finally manifested itself in 2007 before my doctors and I knew I had it. I was playing a guitar gig and my left hand just stopped working in the middle of the gig. It took months of rehab and a week in the hospital with a big clot working its way north from my leg, which thankfully dissolved, to get everything back. But I keep working at it to keep clots at bay, along with blood thinners, avoidance of risk behaviors (which includes most sports other than golf due to bruising risk) and regular pro-time checks and doctor visits. A few years ago I got back to where I could gig again, and now I gig regularly.

Here's the deal, which goes with the adaption theories: I am left-handed, but I play conventional guitars and basses. Since my right hand is not my dominant hand, before this I had not been that good of a finger-picker. After rehab, the right hand picked up some of the slack, and I finger-pick better than I did before.

[TubaSteve]

This video is pretty cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0JKCYZ8hng&app=desktop" target="_blank" target="_blank
Steve

Edit: Sorry, I didn't realize this was the same video that was previously posted. I think I better go play my tuba again!

[MaryAnn]

I believe Gabby is a horn player. I remember seeing an article in the newspaper about that, and all of us horn players wondered if we would encounter her in one of the bands here.