Are you using your F tuba to play anything other than gypsy violin solos these days?

[MikeMason]

The Corsair is on the program this week, first time bringing out the f since Verdi requiem last year. So maybe once a year plus quintet church gigs 5-8 per year. Playing and enjoying more sousaphone these days.

[MiBrassFS]

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[bloke]

Yes but isn't that about three times as many people as will have attended?

[MiBrassFS]

Yes but isn't that about three times as many people as will have attended?

He has a big family…

[Pauvog1]

Most of my playing is CC, but I greatly prefer (my) F for most quintet/ chamber work. Honestly, I probably like my F more than my CC, but both are very nice instruments.

[jtm]

I’m completely amateur/hobbyist, but all of my public playing the past 6 months has been on F. It’s great for brass band, and mine is so easy to play that it must be almost as nice as bloke’s.

I was playing a contrabass in a normal wind ensemble, but lately I’m playing trombone with that group, just for the fun of doing something different (and the last concert was all star wars, so that was fun for trombone).

[arpthark]

I’m completely amateur/hobbyist, but all of my public playing the past 6 months has been on F. It’s great for brass band, and mine is so easy to play that it must be almost as nice as bloke’s.

I was playing a contrabass in a normal wind ensemble, but lately I’m playing trombone with that group, just for the fun of doing something different (and the last concert was all star wars, so that was fun for trombone).

On a certain Bach 42?

[Mark]

The term, Gypsy, is considered poliically incorrect now. Use Roma instead.

[Mark]

Yes, coming up:

Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde
Lalo - Overture to Le roi d'Ys

[jtm]

I was playing a contrabass in a normal wind ensemble, but lately I’m playing trombone with that group, just for the fun of doing something different (and the last concert was all star wars, so that was fun for trombone).

On a certain Bach 42?

Yes, indeed! Thank you. It’s a great trombone, and it gives me the confidence to know that if something sounds bad it’s certainly me and not the horn.

[Mary Ann]

just for the record, if I were going to play gypsy violin solos, it would be on a violin.

[bloke]

just for the record, if I were going to play gypsy violin solos, it would be on a violin.

yeah...If some 350 lb. dude in a too-short T-shirt walked up to my restaurant table and commenced to playing Csárdás on his sousaphone, I'm pretty sure I'd leave...without paying.

[donn]

just for the record, if I were going to play gypsy violin solos, it would be on a violin.

yeah...If some 350 lb. dude in a too-short T-shirt walked up to my restaurant table and commenced to playing Csárdás on his sousaphone, I'm pretty sure I'd leave...without paying.

Sure. I don't know what brought up the physique and apparel aspects, but as the sousaphone is not likely in F ...

[bloke]

just for the record, if I were going to play gypsy violin solos, it would be on a violin.

yeah...If some 350 lb. dude in a too-short T-shirt walked up to my restaurant table and commenced to playing Csárdás on his sousaphone, I'm pretty sure I'd leave...without paying.

Sure. I don't know what brought up the physique and apparel aspects, but as the sousaphone is not likely in F ...

Yeah. You point out some valid things, but how many threads on this site or any other site end up discussing the topic that was introduced at the beginning? At least, Mary Ann and I are still talking about the originally defined type of music (which I'm now not allowed to define) and playing it on a tuba...but mostly, you killed a joke which at least deserved a B or B-.

[Tubeast]

The occasional conductors asking me to help their tuba sections INVARIABLY call for the WILLSON to be blown into. They ALL want but ONE thing...

I feel honored I was allowed / invited to play F-Tuba songs at baptising service of a friend´s recently-born daughter. For reference: "Wiegenlied" by Franz Schubert was among the requested repertoire. The little lady didn´t flinch, so I probably didn´t mess up ALL that bad.

Now that I´m in the process of becoming an old fart, I find myself using my F tubas for personal recreation only.
Might as well produce some good Karma and rent them out to music students for insignificant change. But then again... Naaah...

As to that other sub-topic of this thread:
I consider myself to be a rather conservative liberal.
I believe in old concepts such as "Fröhlich sein, Gutes tun und die Spatzen pfeifen lassen" as well as "Was Du nicht willst, das man Dir tu´, das füg auch keinem andern zu".

I share people´s frustration over the ongoing cycle of euphemisms of today replacing the euphemisms of old. While VERY often these euphemisms are invented and their use insisted upon by folks lacking ANY personal connection, I certainly DO blame OTHER folks reducing the half-life of the current euphemisms by using them tounge-in-cheek or hyphenatedly not (or not PRIMARILY) in order to express disrespect for those named by that euphemism, but to pull the legs of those that keep coming up with new and increasingly ridiculous ones.

In my opinion, both groups of people, the over-sensitive and their "opponents", are feeding and driving that frustrating mechanism at opposing sides of a vicious circle, but in the same direction.
So here´s my strategy:
Ignore the latest euphemistic nonsense, which INCLUDES refraining from bugging those that use them.
And make sure the content of what I actually say about (insert euphemism) honestly reflects what I think about them.

[Steve Oberheu]

The F tuba was my main horn for a long time. I used it for things like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mky8AC28gU

And this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlj4rWD ... AU&index=5

[Stryk]

Aside from the fingerings being the spawn of Satan, they are kinda fun. While I still can't read tuba music with it without frying my brain, I do like to play horn pieces on it and sometimes play a horn part at church. Of course, my F is not a very good one, but I certainly don't need a good one.

[tubatodd]

The F tuba was my main horn for a long time. I used it for things like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Mky8AC28gU

And this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlj4rWD ... AU&index=5

Dude!!!! YYZ?!!!????!!!! That is so awesome. I see your group is from Canada so....that tracks.