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Man . . . I hope it’s plastic . . .

If this is true I would have buy one.

Did someone mention something somewhere or is bloke himself trolling?

Here's yer plastic BAT, Bloke. Antique Martin!

UncleBeer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:11 pm Here's yer plastic BAT, Bloke. Antique Martin!



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How does it sound? Woody, or full?

UncleBeer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:11 pm Here's yer plastic BAT, Bloke. Antique Martin!



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OK... 4 points.
You lost 6, because it's too well-made, and it's neither blue, green, nor orange.

If true,I wonder how long it will take to see them being endorsed by feshinal toobists and played in major symphony orchestras?

DonO. wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 6:17 pm If true,I wonder how long it will take to see them being endorsed by feshinal toobists and played in major symphony orchestras?

Hey, Disney's "Fantasia" had a dang sousaphone player in the Philadelphia orchestra.

LargeTuba wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:14 pm

UncleBeer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:11 pm Here's yer plastic BAT, Bloke. Antique Martin!



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How does it sound? Woody, or full?

Not bad, but not great. Clearly the horn needs some work. I'm hoping to snag it for low bucks at some point and see what can become of it...

Someone else on this forum has one of those things. They report that it's not amazing. That having been said. the pictures of them are alluring... I'm referring to the Martin.

When I was in some short-lived thingy (that I neither auditioned for or nor was particularly interested in participating in) called the "All-City Band" in Memphis - a junior high thing, some kid next to me had one of those plastic Martins.

Our band director sent two of us to play tuba in that and no one else. I didn't at all think of us as amazing tuba players. Maybe, he was impressed that we played the right notes.
We rehearsed in some schools cafeteria, where there was a sour mop smell.

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:11 pm I didn't at all thing of us as amazing tuba players. Maybe, he was impressed that we played the right notes.

I'll always defer to what Howard Johnson told me regarding 'talented tooba players': "It's not that the talking dog says such profound things; it's that he talks at all".

jonesbrass wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 3:35 pm Man . . . I hope it’s plastic . . .

Man . . . I hope it's Chinese . . .

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bloke wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:11 pm We rehearsed in some schools cafeteria, where there was a sour mop smell.

The lunch ladies forgot to throw out the leftover coleslaw.

Three Valves wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:28 am

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:11 pm We rehearsed in some schools cafeteria, where there was a sour mop smell.

The lunch ladies forgot to throw out the leftover coleslaw.

Combined with sour mop smell was the fact that the heat (winter time - just about this same time of year) felt like it was turned up to around 80-something.

My tuba-player school buddy's Dad picked us up (at lunchtime) and (thank the Lord !!!) took us across the street to eat lunch at Krystal (ie. the southern US version of White Castle).

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 9:25 am

Three Valves wrote: ↑Mon Feb 06, 2023 8:28 am

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 8:11 pm We rehearsed in some schools cafeteria, where there was a sour mop smell.

The lunch ladies forgot to throw out the leftover coleslaw.

Combined with sour mop smell was the fact that the heat (winter time - just about this same time of year) felt like it was turned up to around 80-something.

My tuba-player school buddy's Dad picked us up (at lunchtime) and (thank the Lord !!!) took us across the street to eat lunch at Krystal (ie. the southern US version of White Castle).

Krystal > White Castle

yeah...
The "honor" band had been told that they would be served lunch in that same cafeteria.

bloke "I don't think about - nor think of - the past all that much, but - when memories are triggered - I tend to remember stuff quite vividly."

NOT remembered:
- the concert itself
- ANYTHING about the pieces of "music"
- whether my parents came (maybe/probably...??)

REMEMBERED:
- that I was going to have to make up two days of homework assignments (as - back in the late 60's/early 70's, run-of-the-mill public school educational standards were rigorous) in exchange for playing the sousaphone in an overheated smelly place

"Sour mop smell" triggered a memory with beginning band (trombone), because we would practice in the elementary school cafeteria after the tables had been wiped down. Me on trombone, another girl on trombone who ended up being an *ahem* "model," two saxophones, and three trumpets.

But if there had been corn + pizza that day, you definitely still smelled it.

We played as our "concert" that year, the Colonel Bogey theme (??) and "Cruella DeVille" from 101 Dalmatians.

Anyway, I've derailed this thread enough. Looking forward to the CoolWind plastic sousaphone. Maybe with a brass valve section/mouthpipe? That would be novel.

UncleBeer wrote: ↑Sun Feb 05, 2023 4:11 pm Here's yer plastic BAT, Bloke. Antique Martin!



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Why not put duct tape all around the rim and call it a kranz?

bloke wrote:Someone else on this forum has one of those things. They report that it's not amazing. That having been said. the pictures of them are alluring... I'm referring to the Martin.

When I was in some short-lived thingy (that I neither auditioned for or nor was particularly interested in participating in) called the "All-City Band" in Memphis - a junior high thing, some kid next to me had one of those plastic Martins.[emoji41]

Our band director sent two of us to play tuba in that and no one else. I didn't at all think of us as amazing tuba players. Maybe, he was impressed that we played the right notes.
We rehearsed in some schools cafeteria, where there was a sour mop smell. [emoji853]

1.) I have one of those Martin fiberglass tubas. It is completely competent. It needs a fourth valve and they all need rebuilding—the cement they used for the brass braces has let go. But Martin never made instruments that didn’t play.

2.) I was also in the Houston All-City Band in junior high. We rehearsed at the new High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in the old Temple Beth Israel which had been sold to the adjoining Sam Houston High School when the congregation relocated. The conductor was revered, and hand-picked by Ed Trongoni. Mr. Trongoni was the oboist in the Houston Symphony and had been hired in the 50’s by the Houston schools to establish a competent music program. He succeeded.

The concert we played occurred on a day of flooding rains and half the band didn’t make it (I remember my father pushing the car through a flooded intersection because water in the tailpipe had stalled the engine). Half the program was skipped because of the missing players. I also don’t recall what we played.

Rick “played a borrowed Besson on that concert—my school only had sousaphones” Denney