the West Side Story dance suite, wind band arrangement, on trombone. Performance will be Sunday.

18 months of recreational dilettante trombone playing did not prepare me for this.

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bort2.0 wrote: Thu Apr 16, 2026 9:05 pm ...

I told him I had my own concert tonight (which I just got home from), but it was too late and probably too much for him to sit through.

Congratulations!

What are you playing now?

Can't resist piling on: my F Symphonie is a joy to play. I could say that it's a much better tuba than I deserve, but it's a great help to know that any bad sounds are all my fault; I never waste time blaming the instrument. And it wasn't even expensive.

I like the little luggage latches to hold the joints together.

I don’t know when Steve Bryant started at UT—he was there when I moved to Austin in 1981 (I worked with his wife at TxDOT). Sumner Erickson started in Pittsburgh in 1981 after one semester at Curtis, and Steve always claimed him as a private student, so he had to have been there for at least a few ...

bort2.0 wrote: Mon Mar 09, 2026 9:45 pm Aw jeez, how did I not see this one?

because you're subconsciously waiting for me to realize I'm not playing my 188 enough to keep it?

Sounds like I shouldn't look to you for a used oboe.

Now I’m curious about the source material for all those AI imaginings.

I had one of these a few years ago as my first C tuba (same bag, too — maybe it’s even the same tuba), and liked it a lot.

ParLawGod wrote: Thu Jan 08, 2026 7:15 pm ... Agree, the union immediately brought up China...I suspect to add public pressure.

A local instrument repair shop got an email from Conn-Selmer that included

we’re streamlining our manufacturing processes ... and fostering our Chinese factory

I thought maybe I had an (emotional) dog in this fight, but both my trombones say “Elkhart”.

The story also said,

Conn Selmer sent 19 News a statement after our story aired, saying they haven’t made a final decision yet.
…
The announcement was made on the first day of contract negotiations between the UAW and Conn Selmer, Kalman stated.

So maybe some of it is posturing by Conn Selmer.

bloke wrote: Wed Jan 07, 2026 9:17 pm ... The current side topic is "giant tubas made in the past in the B&S factory".

An old BBb B&S 103 doesn't count as "giant", right? It's just normal size but kinda tall?

None of this first part matters, since you won't find another tuba like this, but two folks have mentioned this specific tuba, so ...


I need to remind myself about the Miraphone F tuba that I briefly owned... honestly don't remember much at all about it, except that the 4th and 5th valves were ...

the elephant wrote: Wed Dec 10, 2025 8:52 am Come on, folks! One of you *must* have a rarely-used, under-loved, unmarried Hirsbrunner piston F tuba lying around the old barn somewhere…

Sadly, I only have the one little Symphonie, and lately that's the only tuba people want me to show up with.

so, ..., bump for luck

bloke wrote: Fri Nov 07, 2025 12:26 am There is something very alluring (certainly to a 17-18-year-old tuba player in America) about being able to say, "I'm not JUST a regular ol' B-flat tuba player."

To be fair, that worked for me as a 50-something tuba player in America, too.

I won’t claim it’s a good idea, but I’m really happy with a TU23 on my rotary F. Sometimes a shallowberger (variant of blokepiece Solo?) is fun.

Guess I should feel lucky that my schools provided tubas. Good luck, Tony.

Jack Craven wrote: Fri Jul 25, 2025 4:31 am Pictures of the horn:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/ ... ZCVTUZdGzm

I don't have permission to see the pictures, in case you'd like to adjust that. Just as well, for me, since I'm satisfied with my trombone situation, but someone else might be really eager to see.