As a first time poster, I best introduce myself before I ask question.
I am a long time trombone player (approx 20 years). I have been doubling on euph now for about 5 years. The euph I play is a Boosey and Hawkes Soveriegn (so compensating).
I seem to have an unsolvable problem that is common to everyone. I have a very limited number of notes that are dead on in-tune without some kind of lip adjustment. This is expected. Getting back to basics, the question I have is where do I tune each slide so that the lip adjustments I have to make are minimised throughout the range of the instrument?
My initial instinct is to tune the main slide on a mid-range Bb. Then after that, tune the other slides to the notes in that harmonic. So, 1st valve to Ab, 2nd to A, 2nd + 3rd to Gb. What about on the compensating side and its tuning slides? Mid range F for the main slide?
I'd like to get to the point where I don't wince at the tuning when I hear a recording of myself.
Tim