Fun Tunes (Helicon)- I Found a Million Dollar Baby

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Fun Tunes (Helicon)- I Found a Million Dollar Baby

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Having some fun on the helicon with a classic standard. I hope you will play tunes and songs by ear for fun and improved musicianship!

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Doc wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:24 am Having some fun on the helicon with a classic standard. I hope you will play tunes and songs by ear for fun and improved musicianship!
Sounds good. That helicon has a nice tone. Does the 4th valve reeeeelly help getting down low on the Eb?
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Now those is finger buttons!! :thumbsup:
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The Big Ben wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:41 am
Doc wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:24 am Having some fun on the helicon with a classic standard. I hope you will play tunes and songs by ear for fun and improved musicianship!
Sounds good. That helicon has a nice tone. Does the 4th valve reeeeelly help getting down low on the Eb?
It is the same fourth valve set up as on any other non-compensated four valve tuba. The pedal Eb is open/no valves.
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Three Valves wrote: Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:01 pm Now those is finger buttons!! :thumbsup:
With those buttons, it is Mardi Gras every day.

I will be using it in a second line procession in a wedding next month. Apropos, methinks.
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My good friend, band mate, and long time piano/sax man (retired Navy bandsman) Don Carroll surprised me with this spruced up version:

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