This is all way over my head!!!!
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- Sat Sep 14, 2024 8:17 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: volume of sound in relation to size of tuba
- Replies: 31
- Views: 891
- Sat Aug 24, 2024 10:34 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: farewell to arms
- Replies: 5
- Views: 485
Re: farewell to arms
My arms are to short to reach the fourth valve.
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- Sun Aug 11, 2024 5:45 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: "winning" a job
- Replies: 78
- Views: 6132
Re: "winning" a job
You guys make me happy to not be good enough to be a pro. As a Classical guitarist I was used to playing all by myself. When I started playing with the other musical toys, I just continued to play them as if I was a soloist. Now that I get to play with others, we are just happy to play. I can and ...
- Sat Jul 20, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: How to clean case of green crud?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 202
How to clean case of green crud?
I bought a tuba and hard case that grows green crud that holds the tuba to the cloth of the case. It looks like the same stuff found on copper pennies. I thought I had cleaned it out already but it's back. Comes off of the tuba easily but is imbedded into the fabric. Thus, it grows again. Ideas?
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- Sat Jul 06, 2024 10:42 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Valve rebuilds
- Replies: 3
- Views: 362
Re: Valve rebuilds
I do have other tubas, younger, upright, four valves in front, brass and silver, but this is my baby. The largest tuba at the Portland TC all these many years that I have owned her. 1934, 26-inch recording bell, 6/4 silver upright, 3 valves on top, 32 lbs. York. With her and my Elf costume, we get a ...
- Sat Jul 06, 2024 7:59 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Valve rebuilds
- Replies: 3
- Views: 362
Valve rebuilds
I would like to get a valve set rebuilt. Just a three-valve piston set off of a 6/4 York. We have our local Northwest gent in Seattle, But I have a problem with the wait time. I am an old fart. Would like to get it back before I am too weak to play it. Heck I might even die. I will give him a call ...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 11:23 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: I like playing the tuba
- Replies: 12
- Views: 784
Re: I like playing the tuba
Mary Anne statement about mind set is very important. I come to music with a need. A need for what depends on where my head is at the time. It usually needs to unwind. I do not like having to prep music to play with others but like to jam with others. Prepping music is work. Like long tones it need ...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 10:08 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Annoying thumb ring--suggestions?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1264
Re: Annoying thumb ring--suggestions?
You could do the trick that ladies do when wearing their boyfriends big school ring. Wrap the problem area in yarn to fit and then apply several coats of fingernail polish.
The choice of colors is endless,
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As to not being able to reach, I have had two moved.
The choice of colors is endless,
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As to not being able to reach, I have had two moved.
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 11:36 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Tuba Christmas Chicago
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2796
Re: Tuba Christmas Chicago
I hate blasters, but it is not my place to say something. That is the director's. The Portland TC has both U of O AND OSU marching tubas attend. We give them both time up in front to play their fight song. That seems to satisfy the blasters. As to the flute players who play tuba for a day, some of ...
- Mon Dec 25, 2023 11:18 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Not TubaChristmas!!!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 660
Re: Not TubaChristmas!!!!
The follow up. Nice small group of less than fifty with a strong core of brass from the local adult wind band. Well ran. Beautiful theater, great acoustics. Great arrangements. Audience paid admission. I did just fine. I did not take away. And of course lots of pictures taken. Yes I will do it again.
- Fri Dec 22, 2023 10:30 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Not TubaChristmas!!!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 660
Re: Not TubaChristmas!!!!
Portland's TC usually plays one Hanika song, but as it was over with before this last performance, it was dropped to let the tuba studio from Oregon State to do a piece, led by Jatik Clark. Our local tuba hero. There are at least two pieces that I have never heard of in the music sent and those that ...
- Thu Dec 21, 2023 3:37 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Not TubaChristmas!!!!
- Replies: 8
- Views: 660
Not TubaChristmas!!!!
I have not played in a group where I needed to read new music since I started playing TC over twenty odd years ago. Now it is mostly memorized. I read charts or just adlib on the fly with the few small groups that I do play with. This Sunday, at the suggestion of my wife, I will join the "Salem Tuba ...
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:47 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: "I'm getting older, and looking for a smaller tuba, but I still want four valves"
- Replies: 66
- Views: 6065
Re: "I'm getting older, and looking for a smaller tuba, but I still want four valves"
I am that old fat guy playing a 30 lb. BAT. I just played our TC here in Portland yesterday. I have a very active row at TC and need to put my BAT down and pick it up several times to help. My secret is a tuba stand. I never need to lift both my fat body and the Bat at the same time. I don't need to ...
- Sun Nov 05, 2023 9:35 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: the odd chamber orchestra orchestration of Rhapsody in Blue - to which i've been referring.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 423
Re: the odd chamber orchestra orchestration of Rhapsody in Blue - to which i've been referring.
just to bring this to the top.
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- Fri Oct 27, 2023 9:41 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Getting back in shape........ relatively!!
- Replies: 4
- Views: 265
Re: Getting back in shape........ relatively!!
Look up your local TubaChistmas. Get the book and the CD and learn the second tuba part. Fun way to get back in and to meet others.
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- Sun Oct 22, 2023 10:40 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Someone can have fun with this, and put all the tuba peeps on chronological order.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 312
Re: Someone can have fun with this, and put all the tuba peeps on chronological order.
So, if I am reading the response right, most of the tuba players also played string bass. Please clarify.
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- Fri Oct 20, 2023 11:28 pm
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Marzan Tubas
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1021
Re: Marzan Tubas
I guess I'm the right buyer then. As a short old fart who cannot reach the fourth valve on most piston front tubas I was overjoyed when I tried the Marzan solo. And i got it for a good price. I was really surprised to find myself playing "Stars and Stripes for Ever" when noodling at home. But the ...
- Fri Oct 20, 2023 7:22 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Marzan Tubas
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1021
Marzan Tubas
I have the honor of owning two Marzan, one piston and one rotary. What little info, mostly on this and the other board, have little to say about the quality or the impact that these tubas have had. I did once see a slant rotary Mariphone on E bay once, but little else. One tuba board posting said ...
- Wed Oct 18, 2023 1:24 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: vintage tuba illness
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1422
Re: vintage tuba illness
Up on further investigation of my tenor helicon. It is a Wurlitzer out of Cincinnati Ohio made around 1880. It has piston valves, silver plating.
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- Sat Oct 14, 2023 10:49 am
- Forum: Music Chatter
- Topic: Should I buy a Jinbao tuba?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1837
Re: Should I buy a Jinbao tuba?
I agree with you Mary Ann, he could take a more knowledgeable teacher or friend.
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