Posted by anonymous on August 02, 2003 at 13:50:53:
Here's a stupid thought: why not take a page out of the old (French) horn playbook, and make tubas with 4 rotors and 1 piston valve? Told you it was a stupid thought, but maybe there'd be less complaining about slow, sticky valves.
I ain't puttin' my name on this one . .