To Serve Man

[lgb&dtuba]

Add a couple of O-rings and........

[MartyNeilan]

To Serve Man

Schlepp,
Please move this to the "BBQ" thread.
Thanks,
Marty

[Dan Schultz]

It's nice to have the wherewithall to attempt to make things perfect. There are enough OTHER things in a horn to make it play 'not-so-good' that one CAN'T do anything about.

I'm just wondering how many tubas have perfectly round tubing through the valve section.

[Dan Schultz]

It's nice to have the wherewithall to attempt to make things perfect. There are enough OTHER things in a horn to make it play 'not-so-good' that one CAN'T do anything about.

I'm just wondering how many tubas have perfectly round tubing through the valve section.

The only piston valve cluster that I ever encountered with no "dimples" in the cross-tubing in the pistons was a King "Giant" (.750" bore) sousaphone. The valve stroke, obviously was tremendously long.

Oh... I'm also speaking of the tubing itself. Very little of that stuff is perfectly round.... especially in the tight bends. It all tends to 'flatten' out even if a ball is drawn through it. Brass doesn't have much memory but still tries to straighten out a bit.

[imperialbari]

I might be able to find similar stuff over here, but my recognition factor is zero on this stuff. What is it?

K

[imperialbari]

It's just plastic, Klaus.

Oh, I might have guessed that, but the lower shape of the 3 might have indicated from what type of goods they came.

Using everyday goods for brass purposes is very common for me. Especially textile of course. How to maximize the usefulness of a new clean sock?

For balance reasons I have trombone bell sections as close to my left ear as possible, but I don’t like the feel of lacquer or metal against the neck and the ear. So I cut off the shaft of the sock and pull it over the tuning slide to cover the gooseneck and upper stack.

Then what about the foot of the sock? As I have a trigger on the main slide of my euph, I cannot drain it by pulling the slide as I always do with the basses to make sure where the water ends up. I don’t like the droplets ending on the lacquer of bell and bottom bow, so I have pulled the foot portion of the sock over the main slide, which doesn’t harm the trigger action.

Søren gave me a right-handed rotary single horn (I have right and left handed piston “real” single F horns also), which he didn’t know anything about. MockBb or something the like on the garland told it to be Russian from Moscow, but I could not tell it being in F or Eb, as the initial crook missed until I took the F crook from my Vienna horn. That set-up plays a shade above F with an amazingly symphonic round sound for an instrument obviously made for a drafted military player (that is the raison d’être for right-handed horns in Europe – surplus trumpet players were placed on horns). And the every-day-object element: The previous owner must have been Danish, as the round disk on the 1st finger paddle is a 1 DKr coin soldered on the arm coming from the clock springs.

Rotten Friday here. T&T for incoming brass #77 told it would arrive here during my normal sleeping hours, but a late phone call revealed, that it will not be there until Monday.

Klaus