If the title's any indication, shouldn't you be playing it on one of these? https://us.wessex-tubas.com/cdn/shop/products/TC236GL_0176-min.jpg?v=1624549836&width=550 I'm not a Gershwin-ologist, but, I don't think he spent THAT much time in Paris and spent much more time around Broadway.... :teeth:

With a work like the Gershwin I find it to be an interesting mental exercise to try and imagine what Gershwin heard in his head when he wrote the part, and then to try and emulate that sound. Was the piece initially performed by Geib or Vanni (who played F tuba almost exclusively) in 1928? I suspect ...

You will get a very well made bag. Congrats! My CB-50 leather bag is about 2-3" too long, which, in the grand scheme of things is just fine by me. It affords me the ability to sell it separately OR swap it over to a different horn like a Eastman 632/832. The Getzen stands 31 1/2" tall which is ...

Glenn had an awful lot of patterns. There are quite a few tubas that fit quite nicely and snugly in each other's Cronkhite manufactured bags. I acquired every one of my bags used, and they all fit the particular instruments for which I purchased them very nicely, though they weren't specified as ...

bloke wrote: ↑Sun Oct 27, 2024 11:31 am I spend a whole bunch of time striking y'all's bells, and a bunch of y'all pay me to do it. I don't see what the big deal is here...(??)

context is king.

If you hand me a stick and a part and tell me to hit my horn with it, it's 50/50 if my response would be "is that before or after I shove it up your ***?" or "No" followed by me seeing how far I can throw the stick and then saying "now go fetch". The most polite response you'd get would be something ...

Does the current iteration of Cronkhite really do custom-fit work, or do they just have several templates that are just close enough? I am still a little murky on that. I believe if you order by model, you will get a bag that is "close enough" but not a precise fit. I suspect if you provided them ...

My gut tells me the audio we heard is not actual live audio, given the lack of precisely placed microphones, equipment for sound isolation, and the desire for televised productions to avoid any kind of audio issues whenever possible. That recording was perfectly balanced and mixed. I'm sure they ...

If I had seen it I would've been there same day - only a couple hours.

I grew up not far from the school referenced on the case, and with the same phone exchange (894) in an adjacent school territory. I found spring concert programs from 1974 and 1975 and the listed owner isn't in the programs. I'll bet that case pre-dates 1974 but the school didn't open until the 1966.

I have no idea how people get the music "into" those devices. As peterbas said, a photo from the tablet if it has a camera is sufficient. I use ForScore and have done this many, many times. There's a lot of ways to do this - time permitting I scan them and make PDFs because that's the best quality ...

Those are tone holes for pitch adjustment. Duh.

It's pronounced "Jybe", like "Jive" but replace the b with a v sound. People will know you are smart once they hear you say it correctly this way.

I remember (decades ago) people blowing through PVC pipes (which they hung around their neck via a string). To use intermittently throughout a practice session. It seems to me that the piece of pipe was sort of the opposite thing...or I probably don't understand... The piece of pipe really didn't ...

I got my MIraphone bag (For my Mack horn) from @kingrob76 who as I recall bought it direct from the old country originally. Perhaps he can elaborate on how that worked.... Thomann Music. 30 second glance tells me the price is the same as Music and Arts when shipping is factored in, but I could be ...

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release the Gimp....

I love AI-generated answers.

I never thought I could smell a picture on the internet.... until now.

That was Joe - did you say hi?

They are very alike but also have some major differences. Like the weight. My Getzen is HEAVY for its size (31.5"). The metal is NOT thin. In fact, there were some that were supposed to be performed by MW that got "omitted" from the process about half way through the production run, making later ...