My lips feel well exercised tonight after the Training Band gig. Overall, it went very well. On the tuba end, my performance wasn’t flawless but both my duet with Jane and my tuba solo were decent.

It was a good aerobic work out. One of the ways I can tell is the amount of condensation inside the instrument when I got it home and opened it up to air (most of the liquid produced by instruments you blow into is condensation and not spit!). Another is that my lips feel that they’ve done a workout which, to be fair, they have.