Polka Music Repository- Post Your Recordings Here

[Doc]

Surely, I am not the only one who plays Polka music frequently. If you have video or audio recordings (of you playing), I would love to hear them. Please post links and descriptions in this thread. Thanks!

Doc (a geek for tuba stuff and always hoping to learn something from others)

Clarinet Laendler #2
Miraphone 1291 BBb
Laskey 30Ge
2007


Old Lady Polka
Miraphone 1291 BBb
Laskey 30Ge
2007



When We Parted Waltz
Kurath 5/4 CC
Custom Stork MP
1993

[prairieboy1]

Please keep posting! I joined a polka band four years ago and certainly have enjoyed playing all of these great waltzes and polkas. Playing in this group certainly did wonderful things for my endurance as well. It is the tuba that pulls the train in these ensembles!

[Doc]

Please keep posting! I joined a polka band four years ago and certainly have enjoyed playing all of these great waltzes and polkas. Playing in this group certainly did wonderful things for my endurance as well. It is the tuba that pulls the train in these ensembles!

Indeed.

Don't worry 'bout the mule. Just load the wagon!

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Doc (who can hee-haw with the best of them)

[Three Valves]

Doc (who can hee-haw with the best of them)

That’s bound to happen when you go out of your way to resemble one of the leading characters!!

[Doc]

Doc (who can hee-haw with the best of them)

That’s bound to happen when you go out of your way to resemble one of the leading characters!!

Fair enough.

I once asked the owner of the previous forum if I could be the “Resident Jackass.” He didn’t respond, but he did put me out to pasture a few times.

[ParLawGod]

I'll have to dig for some recordings. I currently perform with two polka groups:

http://www.schnappsundtanz.com
http://www.dorfkapelle.com

I'll take this type of playing over orchestral and concert band any day (not that I don't like it all).

[Doc]

I'll have to dig for some recordings. I currently perform with two polka groups:

http://www.schnappsundtanz.com
http://www.dorfkapelle.com

I'll take this type of playing over orchestral and concert band any day (not that I don't like it all).

Love it! Keep it comin’!

[Doc]

An all-time favorite waltz, the Blue Skirt Waltz.

[Doc]

An Ernie Kucera/Nebraska style polka, Bejova Polka.
(Pronounced “bay oh vuh”)

[Tubajug]

Here's one from a while back (I was trying to play with a beard for the first time. Never again). The Crying Katie Polka:

[Doc]

Here's one from a while back (I was trying to play with a beard for the first time. Never again). The Crying Katie Polka:

Sounds great! Got some more?

[Doc]

I was trying out the Eastman 562. A little large for a duo in a restaurant, but then again, maybe not.

[ParLawGod]

I was trying out the Eastman 562. A little large for a duo in a restaurant, but then again, maybe not.

Been thinking about buying one of these to try against my Miraphone 186...do you feel the 562 makes a good polka horn?? (Larger group playing)

BTW: You sound great!

[bloke]

Doc,

You play with some great groups, and so does ParLawGod.

polka tuba...

I usually take my F-tuba, because that's the only one that I know the fingerings of all three strains of the clarinet polka (fast) in the right key (B-flat / F / E-flat)...

Otherwise, I'd be really tempted (once the build is completed) to use this 32" 19"-bell Holton B-flat, because it's less likely to be knocked over (as I'm changing all the time from tuba, to euphonium, to valve trombone, to flugabone (same as valve trombone, but adds an additional visual), to trumpet to electric bass...

...As the accordion has pick-ups - and can cover the bass (and this accordion player can play really decent bass lines), that's quite liberating.

I typically only work with three guys (drummer/singer, multi-brass/woodwind), and accordion, and we only had a huge stack of lead sheets (to which we only typically refer to as reminders of tunes to possibly play...unless it's a oddball-changes tune that we haven't played since several Octobers ago...)

[prairieboy1]

Here's one from a while back (I was trying to play with a beard for the first time. Never again). The Crying Katie Polka:

Your playing was terrific! Great job!

[Doc]

I was trying out the Eastman 562. A little large for a duo in a restaurant, but then again, maybe not.

Been thinking about buying one of these to try against my Miraphone 186...do you feel the 562 makes a good polka horn?? (Larger group playing)

BTW: You sound great!

I think the 562 is a great tuba for anything, including polka music. It brings some extra breadth and depth (oomphff) that a smaller horn might not provide. Big, clear sound, solid low range, nice high range, easy response, plenty nimble, and the intonation is excellent.

[Doc]

Doc,

You play with some great groups, and so does ParLawGod.

polka tuba...

I usually take my F-tuba, because that's the only one that I know the fingerings of all three strains of the clarinet polka (fast) in the right key (B-flat / F / E-flat)...

Otherwise, I'd be really tempted (once the build is completed) to use this 32" 19"-bell Holton B-flat, because it's less likely to be knocked over (as I'm changing all the time from tuba, to euphonium, to valve trombone, to flugabone (same as valve trombone, but adds an additional visual), to trumpet to electric bass...

...As the accordion has pick-ups - and can cover the bass (and this accordion player can play really decent bass lines), that's quite liberating.

I typically only work with three guys (drummer/singer, multi-brass/woodwind), and accordion, and we only had a huge stack of lead sheets (to which we only typically refer to as reminders of tunes to possibly play...unless it's a oddball-changes tune that we haven't played since several Octobers ago...)

I like F tuba for the smaller groups playing German/Oktoberfest/party style - more nimble and responsive (and also miked), but for the bigger stuff (dance band style), it demands more bottom/bass knob - BBb (or CC) is the ticket.

I bet that Holton could work in a number of polka applications.

[jtm]

All I've got is audio of three high-school kids playing Clarinet Polka (all on contrabass tuba), and that's probably not a good fit. :)

[Doc]

All I've got is audio of three high-school kids playing Clarinet Polka (all on contrabass tuba), and that's probably not a good fit. :)

All are welcome here.

[Doc]

Choctaw (OK) Oktoberfest 2018. After a long week and countless liters, they want the fast stuff.

Miraphone 181 6v GB
Blokepiece Solo #0