Frozen valves!


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Posted by Rob T on December 06, 2000 at 16:25:01:

Hey everyone... just got back from the Toronto Christmas Tuba Festival (not affiliated with TubaChristmas :). It was bloody freezing! (We played outside). My valves kept freezing; the only way to keep the valves from freezing (and to un-freeze them) was to twiddle them every spare second and blow warm air through the horn. I had to play alternate fingerings during some of the songs just to keep my 4th valve working.
Has anyone out there encountered this before? Is there something you can do to prevent valves from freezing beforehand?

Thanks
Rob


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