precious customer pics

[bloke]

I just affected some minimal repairs to an old Russian 3-rotor E-flat tuba.
These pictures were taken AFTER they had bought the tuba, but (prior to bringing it to me - from their home, several hours away) when the linkage was still bent up and seized.
Obviously, their parents had purchased one of those plastic baritones, prior to having purchased this tuba off eBay.

It's pretty obvious that there's an old-guy grandfather/neighbor type who's a pied piper, and has those little kids really excited about the tuba.

(They're getting it back - functional - today. My son is travelling several hours, and happens to be travelling within ten miles of their home.)

I already posted about it in this thread. I only charged them $100, so all I did was to straighten and re-solder the carriage bar mounts, un-mangle the clockspring linkage, get the rotors moving, straighten out the bell, open up the back end of the mouthpiece (such as it is) and I freed/greased the slides: (It may sound like a lot of work, but - well...- I'm PDQ, particularly when stuff just has to "work".

https://tubaforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=6387

[arpthark]

Incredible!

[bort2.0]

You'd better hide your candy!

[bloke]

You'd better hide your candy!

I already stole my candy myself.

[Three Valves]

Hands over ears.

[tofu]

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[bloke]

Cool.sculpture. Wonder where that is.

NOLA
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re: your other comments
I suspect the parent (very friendly/polite/etc.) and I probably don't pull the same levers...though I really don't see much point in pulling them.

[cjk]

Missions for day:

Steal
Steal again
Steal even more stuff
Spying
Play tuba

One can only wonder about the future career goals.

Somebody better tell em there's no tuba playing allowed in the joint.

Cool.sculpture. Wonder where that is.

Yeah, my thought was "somebody needs to take that kid to church".

[MN_TimTuba]

I'm not worried about all the stealing and spying. Sounds like a Mission Impossible plot where the good guys steal something back from the bad guys. Playing the MI theme song on tuba just seems appropriate.
Tim

[bloke]

To me this seems like typical internet communication issues and nuanced stuff, as if children can't possibly have a sense of humor.

[YorkNumber3.0]

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[matt g]

To me this seems like typical internet communication issues and nuanced stuff, as if children can't possibly have a sense of humor.

Bingo.

It’s not as if Looney Tunes/Our Gang/Three Stooges/etc didn’t give people an idea of how to have some fun mischief when out playing with friends.

[2nd tenor]

Cool.sculpture. Wonder where that is.

NOLA
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New Orleans?

It’s good to see juniors interested in making music, I hope that they have a lifetime of fun with it.

The Band that I play in recently had a teenage girl make it out of the training band and into the main band on BBb - small Besson BBb with three valves. As a person she’s a bit quiet and shy, and the music is a very big leap up from what she’s used to, but she’s getting by and we’re all making sure to give her loads of support and encouragement. Ya got to encourage and support the young folks … it’s a very long time back but I’m still grateful to and remember the folk who supported me as a youngster.

[tofu]

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[matt g]

To me this seems like typical internet communication issues and nuanced stuff, as if children can't possibly have a sense of humor.

Bingo.

It’s not as if Looney Tunes/Our Gang/Three Stooges/etc didn’t give people an idea of how to have some fun mischief when out playing with friends.

Sorry - nice try. Every day in Chicago the news is filled with endless numbers of juveniles under the age of 10 shoplifting & carjacking & committing armed robbery and shooting citizens & cops.

This isn't 3 Stooges stuff and it sure isn't funny. It's people giving it a pass as just kid stuff that's a large part of the problem.

Bro…

…I’m talking about these youngsters here with their little plan for mischief in the photos above and the follow on literal interpretation of that silly photo.

Is this reaction hyperbolic or factorial?

[bloke]

Just above is a classic demonstration of what's wrong with social media and discussion lists where things are only typed, not spoken, and facial expressions are not displayed.
Going off on a tangent seems to be the norm, I'm just as guilty as anyone, and I'm trying to be less guilty, lately.

I suspect that the every vote that the parents of that child cast are canceled out by every vote that I cast, but those little kids aren't going around stealing anything, and they're not going to grow up to do that, either. Further, back when we all played with toy guns and even some of us had rifles hanging in the back windows of our pickup trucks when we went to high school, almost no one shot anyone - ever. Today - where all of that is just about completely banned, all sorts of people are shooting all sorts of people everyday. I personally don't see where playing cops and robbers - or stuff like that - is the problem. I think most of us know what the problems are, but anytime we begin discussing those things here, the threads end up in the cornfield, so that's the end of that.

As a specific response to the adamant post just above, the situation is dire, and I habitually and necessarily drive way around most all condensed high population areas, these days. Personally, I sort of liked it a lot better back when there was civilization, but apparently a whole bunch of people disagree with my personal tastes... and to discuss why civilization has been intentionally and systematically destroyed would also result in this thread being cornfield bound.