Re: Re: The Engineered Tuba


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Posted by Chuck(G) on June 03, 2002 at 15:15:03:

In Reply to: Re: The Engineered Tuba posted by Rick Denney on June 03, 2002 at 12:13:58:

I'm in agreement with Rick about materials. Many major advances in design over the last 100 or so years have come from advances in materials. If we were stuck building things from wood, leather, cloth, copper and iron, it would be a very different world indeed.

Aside from materials, there isn't much could do to a tuba without changing it into something else. After all, it's just a big coiled conical tube with a valve mechanism. We could change the way it was wrapped, but I'll bet that that's been done before.

But the subject of materials has me wondering about things like ceramic piston valves or stainless steel bottom bows. Could we build a tuba that could be disassembled for transport, like a contrabassoon? How about permanently-lubricated valves?

If we added energy into the equation, we might have electrically-actuated valves (batteries not included).




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