The Ins and Outs of Buying Tubas
The Ins and Outs of Buying Tubas - The Instrumentalist
A good small high school BBb tuba should be 34-36" long with a 15- or 16-inch bell and a bore size of .709. High school students, even the smaller ones, should ...
Buying a Tuba: Things to Consider - Low Brass Life
You also need to test out the feel. Are the valves slow and difficult to press? Are there dents you couldn't see in the picture. This is the instrument you're ...
Buying your first tuba: a comprehensive guide - Wessex Tubas
The best way to know what tuba best suits you is, where possible, to try some and/or get to know as much about the model(s) you're most ...
Tuba Buying Guide - InSync - Sweetwater
After the mouthpiece, valves are the most important way that a player interacts with the instrument. Therefore, when buying a tuba, it's ...
Buying a tuba : r/Tuba - Reddit
In fact, for any tuba buying, play on the exact horn, the one they are selling, no matter what. Even big names can have duds that make it ...
Tuba Buying Guide - The Vault at Music & Arts
In fact, each material has a different composition that has an effect on the type of tone your tuba will produce. Tubas manufactured from gold brass have a ...
2. Go somewhere that has a lot of new AND USED tubas (Like Baltimore Brass Company, Dillon Music, the Horn Guys, etc), and play all ...
Tuba Buying Guide - The Vault at Music & Arts
BBb tubas work superbly for most school-band music. Compared to CC tubas, the BBb tuba has a broader sound with extra weight, which helps bring balance to a ...
Thinking about purchasing a tuba? Don't know what type ... - YouTube
Should your tuba be a BBb or a CC? What kind of tuba playing are you doing? Are you going to college to major in music on tuba? What tubas ...
I Need of Help Buying a Tuba! - David Werden
I would suggest getting a good used 4/4 Bb rotary valve tuba. The market is flooded with Miraphone 186 BBb horns which will work to your favor.
How to Buy a Tuba - MusicHouse.com
Local dealers do not typically stock large numbers of tubas, as they typically fill school orders in response to bid specifications for specific instruments.
If you could buy a new tuba, would you? - TubaForum.net
It depends on the tuba and the buying opportunity. I've bought new, demos, and used. Rick “who buys tubas to keep and measures value in ...
Tuba Buying Guide – Types of Tubas - Medium
Pitched in C or Bb, the tube sizing ('bore sizes') are much wider on these instruments compared to the Eb and F 'bass tuba'. The deep, rich ...
Buying a Tuba in the New Millennium | Local 802 AFM
Be careful to get some sort of warranty and try to spend some time with an instrument similar to the one that you want to purchase. Because of their size tubas ...
What tuba would you buy without playtesting - Page 2 - TubaForum.net
I have owned about two dozen tubas in my life. Only two were new. I don't buy horns untested because they are always used and have a past that led up to the ...
Tuba Buying for Dumbies? - TubeNet
You get to try out a large variety of tubas, new and used in one trip. You can put your mouthpiece in a $12,000 Hirsbrunner or a $5,000 Mirafone ...
Thoughts on Tuba - David Werden
FINISHES: Tubas are plated in four types of finishes and it is an important consideration when purchasing an instrument. In general, it is best ...
What key of Tuba should I buy? - Wessex Tubas
Choosing a Tuba that's right for you can be a challenging task, full of many questions and qualifying factors, including; age, capability, ...
Tubas that are often not much more than scrap or junk can go for bizarrely high prices, while the occasional high end instrument rarely fetches what it would ...
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