TNFJ Opinion Time
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yer 1241-based 5-valve CC is not going to have the 19" bell anyways, it's going to have a much shorter bell.
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REALLY?????TheGoyWonder wrote:yer 1241-based 5-valve CC is not going to have the 19" bell anyways, it's going to have a much shorter bell.
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the elephant wrote:Read and follow instructions.
TNFJ!?
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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Maybe one of the old King rotary tubas?
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Asking a lot from a bunch of tuba players.windshieldbug wrote:the elephant wrote:Read and follow instructions.
TNFJ!?
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Not sure if you are making fun of the question or the answer... I just meant that if you want something very similar in sound, maybe start with something very physically similar?bloke wrote:bort wrote:Maybe one of the old King rotary tubas?
This $h!t has been going on for so very many years, we are all caricatures of ourselves.
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Packed in water or oil??bloke wrote:
Why not argue over which canned albacore tuna is the best?
I am committed to the advancement of civil rights, minus the Marxist intimidation and thuggery of BLM.
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bloke wrote:
Why not argue over which canned albacore tuna is the best?
Why not argue over which banned metaphor is the best?
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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Would a band metaphor include the phrase "no strings attached"? --- (Stream of semi-conciousness ...)
MISERICORDE, n.
A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
- Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
A dagger which in mediaeval warfare was used by the foot soldier to remind an unhorsed knight that he was mortal.
- Devil's Dictionary - Ambrose Bierce
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I'm SHADDUPING.
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Oh, God, I hate to admit this, but the newer 186's with the "vanilla" toned 17 3/4 inch bell comes the closest to my ears to the detachable bell Kings I played in high school, with two intonation exceptions:
1) Kings had pretty good 5th partials; Miraphones have the classic flat 5th partials;
and by contrast:
2) Kings have sharp 6th partials; Miraphones have pretty good 6th partials.
Oh, Lord, forgive my heresy....
1) Kings had pretty good 5th partials; Miraphones have the classic flat 5th partials;
and by contrast:
2) Kings have sharp 6th partials; Miraphones have pretty good 6th partials.
Oh, Lord, forgive my heresy....
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I've owned four of these since 1982 and used them for most of the work I did, although I did own a lot of other horns I've always come back to the Kings. To me, they don't sound like any rotary horn I've heard or played. And I own and use a rotary King sometimes. The rotary horns, to me, have a smoother sound where the piston Kings have more "turbulence". But I am able to blend with whatever else is on the job. I got to hear just about everyone at the "Rat" play on my various Kings and was always gassed with the sound. And when they went back on their B S 101's, or Meinl Weston 20's, Mirafone 186's, or Cervenys it was great but, to my ears, quite different. I used them in bands, orchestras, quintet, polka bands,the Rat tuba quartet, and a boatload of Dixieland jobs as well as Ray Charles and the Moody Blues and people always dug the sound. All that being said, there are other horns that I find are less work to play but I'm in it for the sound and those Kings make the sound that's in my head. FWIW, Ed
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