I had returned from living abroad and on the way in I heard "smells like teen spirit" on the radio.

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Thu Dec 31, 2020 10:57 pm The first time I heard "Huapango" on the radio, I was in my car, and had to pull over and listen till it was over.

Garcia lorca anyone?

Proly Shostakovich 5

Yorkboy is a person (though he does not over-post, as do I) to whom all should pay attention. He is elite-trained, has mastered a wide-range-of-styles (including additional mastery of some woodwinds), and is marvelous player, who also does superb jobs of "building" (restoring, and then enhancing ...

What is a tuba anyway? NO Im not going there but the contrabass tuba, would not likely have been invented were it not for the gross orchestra. (dont read anything into that) So, lets talk about it. Tuba players are utilities in bands. And when they got invited to the "orchestra party", they started ...

I would reply to this thread, but I think I would just be "compensating"

"I will never listen to anything the government tells me", sorry George Carlin reference. "I will never listen to anything a tuba teacher tells me", I never did anyway, except for a couple. If I could do it over again I would just listen about that much. Output beats input every time if its good.

Its this sort of high school induced bait of horn discussion that keeps tuba forums alive and well and I welcome it! But its also sort of dumb and demeaning to people who have actually spent years of their lives in practice rooms for 4-8 hours a day. The horns that sound good are well known to the ...

IF you can get a horn at military auction good on ya.

Most of it goes to prisons.

If your in prison... BAD on ya.

In college, I somehow conned Ms Altieri (Not sure if that was her name but you know who I mean), into making me a red gig bag (she used the material she used for the red piping on her standard bag). She had only done that for one other person (who I knew) and didnt really want to. Anyway years later ...

Because a 'G' tuba would be too much and an 'E' tuba is not enough

So when Im out of shape, I know I have to play every day for a bit to get some chop strength, find the center, start playing in tune. 30 mins at first, then 45 mins, then an hour and so on. The way I keep expectations in check during this fragile time (rebuilding chops), is to only listen with one ...

NOT gonna happen!

jonesbrass wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 3:16 pm


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Nice and a Drive through subway to boot! I love those.

When I was in college, a good friend of mine used to practice tuba while watching the yankees play, or (at the time) the People's Court on TV. He was a bit older than me and wiser (he eventually went pro). I thought it was funny. But I did find a use for this. Since I dont play regularly anymore, I ...

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Aug 31, 2020 12:52 pm Does Schilke still make that lanolin concoction in that old percolator ?

This?

I used to use the old Selmer brand slide/cork grease (red goo) and Al Cass. I’d put a thin layer of the slide grease on and then work the slide, one leg at a time, with the Al Cass. I think that was the concoction I was thinking of.... I believe I used this on the first valve slide specifically so t ...

harley_tuba.jpg tuba hauler Dude....! Ok this reminds me of something. My first ever tuba lesson was with James Jenkins then principal tuba of the Alabama Symphony. I lived in Birmingham at the time, and I had a Suzuki GS500. I was in high school, and my dad had to work late that night. But I didnt ...

tclements wrote: ↑Wed Aug 19, 2020 2:53 pmtuba hauler

Dude....!

Can you insert on leg of the slide at a time into each individual outer slides? That will isolate if the problem is a dent or a misalignment I suspect misalignment because I have to sort of see-saw it from side to side to get it to move. Which I have to be careful of because it so stiff I dont want ...