Brass Repair Cam - Tuba Work (Sunniva)

[@JeffWhiteMedia]

Love watching the talented masters use their craft to rescue these wonderful instruments! Thank you for the fun and educational videos!

[@paulgrimm6850]

I love to watch a artisan work. She has a lovely accent and demeanor

[@stepcorngrumbleteats7683]

Brilliant job, Be Blessed !!

[@MarkALong64]

Amazing that she has that level of skill at so young an age. Excellent work and a great video.

[@JeffWhiteMedia]

I was thinking the same thing! I know a very well-known craftsman who hurt his back working on a similar instrument, and he was a big guy. This horn probably weighs more than the master craft talent working on it! Brava!

[@antoniorodolpho6835]

How beautiful is an artist dedicate his talent to preserve instruments!

[@copacabanacannabis3370]

Wonderful to see repair being demonstrated and from around the world! Checking in from Blue Note B's Horn shop in Sparks NV, USA!

[@zuke-ci4vd]

Outstanding Job!! Both the repair and the video!!

[@jimparfitt2330]

Wow! I'm really impressed! That big dent on the bell i didn't think you could remove, but it looks great! I had a big Cerveny BBb that i tripped over, ( yes, no excuse..) and since i was drinking beer at the time, I rolled the dent out of the bell with two beer bottles rolling against each other.... Well, it worked mostly, but it wasn't my finest hour as a tuba player or a tuba fixer..:)

[@lembriggs1075]

Thanks for sharing your talented craftsmanship!

[@palletcolorato]

Excellent work, especially on those bell creases.

[@earbjr4715]

Awesome!

[@majcrash]

Nice work! Playing a few notes on it to hear how an unusual horn sounds would be great too.

[@benyoumans9072]

Wouldn't heat soften the metal on those sharp creases. The movement of the metal would harden it again

[@brianfedie8046]

Nice!

[@josephjorgensen3282]

That horn may not be new but it looks fantastic compared to what it was she is a amazing craftsman!

[@Epulor1]

Was waiting to hear if it had been altered earlier to play in a different key. Oh well. Wonderful video anyhow. Thanks!

[@ranhill62]

I think that's what she said at the very beginning.

[@Aardvark892]

Is that an Eb? Looks a bit small, just a bit bigger than a Euphonium.

[@joewirsching767]

hallo ladies its wonderful what you douing! I m an repairman in germany !

[@snrnsjd]

What torch is that? It looks good

[@notmyworld44]

This is fascinating stuff, as I own a cheap Bb french horn that has a few dings in it. I noticed you Brits pronounce "solder" with a prominent L sound, while here in the States it has degraded in pronunciation to "saw-derr". Great video here! Your technician is quite charming.

[@Moises-ro3pi]

BRASIL 🇧🇷👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@gavancaldwellmac]

I have a Yamaha YTS-62 - My neck is slightly buckled due to a silly panic procedure to remove my cleaning cloth with a screw driver!! I have had it serviced because as a beginner I find it difficult to have a consistent air flow from my lungs and my neck is working find apart from the slight damage. -- I have 3 ideas sell the saxophone damaged - buy a new neck and I am sure which one - sell it with the new neck and buy a cheaper saxophone like the Jean Paul - TS 400 from Dawksmusic - thanks

[@TheCrazyPozavnist]

Very nice emergency repair job on that poor tuba! I enjoyed watching the soldering and hammering haha Just a thought, wouldn't heating up the bell a little bit make it easier to roll the dents out? Or it doesn't matter in this case?

[@copacabanacannabis3370]

If you heat up the metal it anneals it. Annealing is the weakening of a metal, and seeing as it is a school instrument making the bell softer would not benefit the repair in the long run.

[@lotsabirds]

The bell, although hard, is relatively soft when compared to some of the other metal. Other soft areas include the bends in the tuning slides, for example. No need to soften the metal. Handling a hot bell would require wearing gloves and I know that I use my hands to feel the dents and the progress made. Heat is good for soldering and taking soldered joints apart.

[@mrharryon]

What are the techniques for removing excess solder after soldering? Do you remove it mechanically with sandpaper or with a torch?

[@dawkesmusic]

We tend to remove physically with abrasive paper or usually a scraper. There are various types of these, our preference for most situations is this one: www.dawkes.co.uk/triangular-scraper-hollowed-sides-straight-edges/9177

[@Markworth]

I have a British Standard Baritone Horn which is clearly made with a lot of the same tooling as this horn. Pretty sure that the fitment of the valve block to the horn was always bodgey like that. The lack of perpendicular bracing permits some slop in the tuning slide. Horrifying, I know.

[@jonathankammer9078]

As a dedicated repair craft learner, working in repair part-time, I’ve been taught this method of bringing bell flares flush by knocking down with mallet on the table, and also another way where the bell is not impacting against the table. One repair tech who gave me a lesson called your method “double burnishing” and his method “single burnishing.” He suggested that single burnish is easier to control variables. Have you heard of this and does this make sense? I know everyone has their preferred methods. Wondering if your method ever results in an outcome that was unpredicted, as I choose which method to use in general

[@bobbysabir7267]

Nice

[@carloko08]

so nice work that Sunniva do, but hey Sunny, use gloves!! be care with your hands ;)