No there aren’t 100 , or more qualified applicants for a single job. There will be X# that can turn in a packet, recorded excerpts. They’re sifted for accuracy, and if they used the right recording methods, as required. If they hire, it’s their choice. Just look how they handled the trombone vacancy ...

I’m thinking some good old fashioned fife and drum.

Pershing’s Own.

Lots of horses.

Invite the only Army Air Corps Band.

A field band or three. :huh:

And tanks baby, lot’s of tanks! :tuba:


Horses? Yeah, the bands marching over metal plates, behind the horses. Better make sure that some of ...

A 6/4 Bremelo BBb tuba weighs about? @donn

Steepgrain wrote: Mon May 12, 2025 3:13 am Hey, how's the bag holding up?

Does he still have that horn?

Does it fit in the trunk of his car?

Questions. Questions. Questions.

Yeah, he outlived Richard Simmons.

Oh, and on the symphony orchestra side of criticizing things that go on with symphony orchestras (particularly the lower level paid ones), here's something really annoying about orchestra concerts over the last two or three decades:
It's 7:30 p.m. or 8:00 p.m. and time for the downbeat. Instead ...

Get a used Eastman CC with pistons. Get him a roller case, he can buy the bag. Then you have a nice long talk about keeping the horn secure.

No car pooling, or rooming with a viola player.

customer:
"I bumped my trombone bell section against something a few weeks ago and - ever since then - it's made this clicking noise whenever I push on this slide; I checked all the screws to make sure they are tight..."

me, after ten seconds:
"This screw is loose (tightens screw). Here you go ...

It wouldn’t be a good idea, to omit your completed degrees. That could come up in a background check, or a periodic one. But the resume should have areas of expertise, to show you can perform the assigned duties.

bloke wrote: Sat Apr 26, 2025 4:58 pm
Body bags do zip up, do they not?

How would you know about body bags?

I bought my latest Cronkite in late October ’24, and had it shipped in mid February of this year. Badlands leather for a Cerveny ABB 681. Lee Stofer is who you order with.

It’s a great bag. The dog does occasionally sleep on it.

This one is added to my three other ones for a couple of tenor ...

In my current muni band I always have 16 -32 bars ahead in the music in my head without actually trying to do this. There are a lot of pieces that I’ve played so many times that I just naturally know them from start to finish and I can play them without ever looking at the music. I've found myself ...

Yeah, about that….

NO Video, it DIDN’T happen…..

I remember having most of the pouch memorized by my 3rd year in the Navy fleet bands. Nothing like banging out the Jack Tar at 0930, on an NAS Oceana Friday. Just had to watch if the MUCS was going to give the Stinger. That’s how he got the band to pay attention.

Meanwhile, in the Army…….

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I thought a shallowberger mouthpiece, was a beginner piece, for string teachers, to start brass players at 5th grade.

I would say that his brother, is better looking.

I don't subscribe to cable or satellite or any paid internet TV stuff... I do look around all over the place to see what different people think, what different people believe, and what some people are trying to get other people to believe.

I encounter a whole bunch of groupthink, a few ...

Chorale and Alleluia, Howard Hanson. 6th grader playing King baritone. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.

arpthark wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 5:57 pm

bloke wrote: Fri Mar 28, 2025 5:50 pm Blake,
Didn't they offer you a position as a Sanders artist?

Being from Kentucky, they actually offered to make me a Sanders Colonel.

And you chickened out?!

Hopefully he got a haircut, with a good starched shirt, BEFORE that 1st rehearsal. Strong handshake preferred.


Just in case they don't really need any tubas, I'm going to bring an alto sax. You know: the viola of the band.


Actually had that happen last night in my band. The instrument ...