Posted by Joe S. on December 13, 1999 at 22:51:59:
I would like to testify that my experiment of "shortcutting" a Conn 24J from BBb to CC was an acoustical disaster.
Obviously, there is NO shortcut, and all of the branches of a tuba must be retapered and shortened proportially (as I've done on my other "cut-downs"). I was just trying to discover if by "dumb luck", I could reduce a "$1000's of $$$$'s" job down to less than $1000.