Sax practice has resumed. I cant play with cold fingers.....
Who knew?
One of the good things about playing tuba is that it's possible to play in reasonably chunky gloves - coupled with a plastic mouthpiece, even better!
When it gets really cold, I just break out the bass trombone and ski mittens - one of the bonuses of being a low brass multi-instrumentalist! 
Until it gets cold enough to freeze the valves solid. The soft southern band I used to play with were in Germany one winter (visit to a twinned town) and only the cornets and flugel could play more than five notes as the valves and slides on the rest were frozen solid.
A friend of mine in the USA tells the story of the time his university marching band were playing at a football game in sub-zero temperatures (Fahrenheit!) and the entire sousaphone section's valves froze solid, just before half time.
A quick discussion ascertained that different players had different valve combinations set solid and that the full range of different combinations were available - so they played all the notes that they could, a bit like a bell choir. Apparently no one else in the band even noticed that there was a problem!
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