My Tuba & I, Post Yours & You

[hrender]

As with most frankenhorns, mine has changed a bit since that photo...
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Nice horn!

[Rick Denney]

Pictures are easier here!

This is the most recent, a pre-Covid pic of the Loudoun Brass Quintet. My Hirsbrunner and my B&S are shown:



Here I’m am with the Hirsbrunner attempting to look serious and instead just looking dour:



Me playing the Holton 6-8 years ago at an Army workshop:



Another pic of the Loudoun Brass Quintet with mostly different personnel, and me in a more inflated state, back in 2014–tuba is the B&S:



About the same time, same tuba, even more inflated:



This is a real oldie, from the TubaMeisters Christmas of 1991 (in San Antonio), with me pre-gray playing the Yamaha 621F. Ray Grim is to my left, playing his 186:



Rick “various stages of inflation” Denney

[Jperry1466]

Pretty cool to see what you guys and your horns look like. Kind of like a church directory.

[Heavy_Metal]

The most recent pic I have of the Bel Air Community Band Tuba Section, from 2014:

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From left: Cheryl Wald (unk make German BBb), Jim Laisure (Alexander 163 CC), me (Alexander BBb), Mark Chachich, principal (Alexander 163 CC).

We had seven tubas just before the COVID-19 lockdown, but I never got a pic..........

Edit- I decided to start another thread for group pics.

[Doc]

The most recent pic I have of the Bel Air Community Band Tuba Section, from 2014:

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From left: Cheryl Wald (unk make German BBb), Jim Laisure (Alexander 163 CC), me (Alexander BBb), Mark Chachich, principal (Alexander 163 CC).

We had seven tubas just before the COVID-19 lockdown, but I never got a pic..........

Edit- I decided to start another thread for group pics.

All that Alex goodness has to make for a fantastic section sound.

[TheDoctor]

- some pics-

Thanks for that. It's like a cool little time capsule of memories

[Mark E. Chachich]

The most recent pic I have of the Bel Air Community Band Tuba Section, from 2014:

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From left: Cheryl Wald (unk make German BBb), Jim Laisure (Alexander 163 CC), me (Alexander BBb), Mark Chachich, principal (Alexander 163 CC).

We had seven tubas just before the COVID-19 lockdown, but I never got a pic..........

Edit- I decided to start another thread for group pics.

All that Alex goodness has to make for a fantastic section sound.

Our section has a uniform sound which in my opinion is good. When the Bel Air Community Band played at the Association of Concert Bands Convention in Pittsburgh (2016) the host band ( East Winds Symphonic Band) had Marzan tubas. This also produced a uniform sound and as Frank and I have said many times; which section sounded better, BOTH!

This is a link to The Bel Air Community Band playing March Valdres at the 2016 Association of Concert Bands Convention in Pittsburgh. The same tuba section that is in the picture is playing on this recording.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rh5_k7Gx7fM

Best,
Mark

[Mithosphere]

Carl Fischer helicon with original 30" bell

Arizona Territorial Brass at the Vintage Band Festival in 2019


TubaChristmas 2019 in Tempe, AZ

[matt g]

How many channels do you get with that thing?

[ppalan]

Miraphone 186 CC early to mid 1970's vintage


Wessex Berg F

[Doc]

Rudy 3/4 CC

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Kanstul 90 CC

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Miraphone 181 6v GB (playing “duets in the desert” with Ken Friedrich in Big Bend NP near the Rio Grande)

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B&S Symphonie 6v GB

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[Mithosphere]

How many channels do you get with that thing?

Haven't heard that one before!

[the elephant]

Hanging with my buddies Daryl and Gary, many moons ago at the old Shea Stadiumscan0093-200x200.jpg

Would that be in 1986 during the race for the pennant? I have a pic of me in my dress blues with my King sousaphone next to cutouts of Gary Carter and Daryl Strawberry. I just can't *find* it anymore. It must be buried in a box in the attic. I miss afternoons or evenings at Shea, I would take the R train from the end of the line (95th St. Bay Ridge) to Times Square and switch to the 7 train to
Flushing Meadows. The 7 was always crazy fun heading home if the Mets won.

Good times. I miss Brooklyn, Queens and the City. I miss Staten Island, even. I don't miss the Bronx at all, though. HAHAHA!!!

[humBell]

https://www.instagram.com/p/BRZLd_qhdho/

Too lazy to figure out how instagram works well enough to have the inage appear here, and links to the photographer who took it are inherently available, so i can be even lazier and assume instagram gives the credit due. (i can certainly include name and link to general works here if folk want me to)

Anyway, this photo of me busking was at a bonified exhibition. Photographer tracked me down afterwards and gave me a print. Which ranks as one of the cooler things i have recieved for busking.

And of course i fully expect the TFFJ to identify the tuba within a relatively small error factor.

[matt g]

That’s a great photo!

[tobysima`]

Me and the 4/4. I'm a small man.

[windshieldbug]

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Me/Marzan CC

[Estubist]

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Schenkelaars Eb (Eindhoven, Netherlands), buildt by Böhm & Meinl, Geretsriet, Germany

[cktuba]

Since there's some throwback going on....

After a quintet recording session 1990 something...

[Yorkboy]

Hanging with my buddies Daryl and Gary, many moons ago at the old Shea Stadiumscan0093-200x200.jpg

Would that be in 1986 during the race for the pennant? I have a pic of me in my dress blues with my King sousaphone next to cutouts of Gary Carter and Daryl Strawberry. I just can't *find* it anymore. It must be buried in a box in the attic. I miss afternoons or evenings at Shea, I would take the R train from the end of the line (95th St. Bay Ridge) to Times Square and switch to the 7 train to
Flushing Meadows. The 7 was always crazy fun heading home if the Mets won.

Good times. I miss Brooklyn, Queens and the City. I miss Staten Island, even. I don't miss the Bronx at all, though. HAHAHA!!!

Yes, 1986 World Series to be exact. I was playing in a trad jazz band hired by the Mets at the stadium at that time.

I was there and saw Bill Buckner of the Red Sox let the ball go between his legs that Mookie Wilson hit in game 6....man, that place went berserk.

I was also there to witness the guy who parachuted into the stadium during game 2.

I hope you can find that picture - I'd love to see it!