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Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 10:48 am
by Charlie C Chowder
I pulled out my Eb tubas. One was not playable. It would not slot, or as I like to say, it was squirrelly. My tech found a small camera bag that contained the mouthpiece and valve oil that I used with that tuba stuck inside.

Nobody to blame but myself,
CCC
:facepalm2:

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 12:03 pm
by bloke
The most common thing to be lodged in a French horn is a small (1 oz.) bottle of valve oil, the second most common thing is a mouthpiece, and the third most is a Chapstick-tube-shaped slide grease.

sousaphones:
everything from an old lunch, to underwear, to pompons, to a dead animal

fwiw…Your spelling of “lossed” is much more logical - as well as easier to read - compared to the preferred one.

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 12:46 pm
by Three Valves
bloke wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 12:03 pm
sousaphones:
everything from an old lunch, to underwear, to pompons, to a dead animal
Panties. :smilie8:

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 5:14 pm
by iiipopes
bloke wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 12:03 pm The most common thing to be lodged in a French horn is a small (1 oz.) bottle of valve oil, the second most common thing is a mouthpiece, and the third most is a Chapstick-tube-shaped slide grease.

sousaphones:
everything from an old lunch, to underwear, to pompons, to a dead animal

fwiw…Your spelling of “lossed” is much more logical - as well as easier to read - compared to the preferred one.
Kind of like:
American: burned (except for "Burnt Ends" - yum! - Yeah, I'm a KC BBQ aficionado)
British: burnt (for example, as the brass inset into the floor of Coventry Cathedral, "...this Cathedral burnt....")

And others. For another time.

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:54 pm
by bort2.0
bloke wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 12:03 pm fwiw…Your spelling of “lossed” is much more logical - as well as easier to read - compared to the preferred one.
I had the same thought!

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:13 pm
by GC
Losted is still more logicaler.

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:04 am
by Three Valves
The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lossed!!

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:25 am
by bloke
Just think about it:
If one of the Cartwright brothers flattened you, you obviously would not be “host”;
Rather, you would be “hossed”.
Three Valves wrote: Thu Jan 06, 2022 9:04 am The weather started getting rough,
The tiny ship was tossed,
If not for the courage of the fearless crew
The Minnow would be lossed!!

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2022 12:05 am
by Charlie C Chowder
Lost!!! I doo trie two proof reed tis stughf

CCC :facepalm2:

Re: Now that I found my long lossed Mouth pieces,

Posted: Tue Jan 11, 2022 8:11 pm
by Bob Kolada
My old high school received a new Yamaha "American" baritone. Some of the goobers in the band were throwing around a rubber mouthpiece carrier and it ended up in the horn shank side down. The director, not normally known to be a quiet, reserved man, reached a new personal high for popped veins. I took it home and tried blowing it out with my dad's air compressor; that didn't work so we ended up using a coat hanger. :tuba: Nice horn that seemed a bit bigger than Kings and Conn's, too bad Yamaha didn't release a 4 valve version.