Re: Re: Cutting a tuba Bb to Eb or F


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Posted by Rick Denney on November 19, 2003 at 19:50:47:

In Reply to: Re: Cutting a tuba Bb to Eb or F posted by Not a good idea on November 19, 2003 at 19:14:28:

Plus an Eb or an F with only three valves wouldn't be very playable. If it had four front-action valves, you could use the valve body to make an Eb or F with the outer branches from an Eb tuba. But to convert these outer branches into an Eb would require removing about five feet of tubing, and you've have to retaper nearly every foot of what's left to avoid having a 1-inch tube run into a 3-inch tube.

Three-valve Eb tubas are so cheap that it's not worth firing up the torch to make one.

Rick "who thinks removing two feet is hard enough" Denney


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