The Octoberfest Thread

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One of my buds put a life-sized scare crow on his porch. It was in the city so the kids got used to seeing it there, along with all the other decorated houses. On Halloween Day he dressed in the previously straw stuffed get up and sat on the porch himself.

Hilarity ensued!! :laugh:


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I’m waiting for @ParLawGod Jeremiah Eis to post, so the thread gets back on track...
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Oktoberfest @ Fredericksburg, TX
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McKinney, TX. Blazing sun, aluminum trailer/stage.
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Frederick, MD 2021. Observer only. Interesting mix with guitar.

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What a GREAT Oktoberfest season! Most of my gigs were cancelled last year, and I was fortunate to have a busy season this year. I perform mostly with the Schnapps und Tanz Oktoberfest Band (formerly the Newtonburg band that bloke mentioned). Also perform with a kombo version of that group, and a group called the Dorf Kapelle.

Music...beer...friends...can life get any better?

On euph/baritone, I have a Weltklang B&S oval that I've been using the most (also have a Mirafone around - for sale!)...JP Sterling 373 or Yamaha 321 on occasion. Depends on who my partner is and what they are playing on.

For tuba, I have an Eastman 562. :tuba:
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My guess was also that it's your original CC, Wade.
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As a polka tech, I would’ve chosen the cut-down B-flat, because many polkas - other than Schützenliesel - include the note, B-flat, in them…

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Oddly, THESE showed up today on fb (ie. "You have memories to share with...")

This was the "no-charts" band - back in the mid-late 1980's (after I decided to begin eating everything in sight). :eyes:

When we were first formed (7-nights-a-week 9 - 1 A.M. gig in an opened-for-a-year in downtown Memphis German bar/grill), the accordion player had these cheesy/fake lederhosen made (copying some fake ones that another accordion player in town also owned)...and we just continued using them.

I believe we may have been at a north-central Arkansas retirement community (Greer's Ferry Lake), as we played an three-nights Oktoberfest there, quite a few years in a row.

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Yorkboy wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:45 am 0FA921FA-FD8A-4A3A-B200-0374B6851A90.jpeg

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Tubajug wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:22 pm
Yorkboy wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:45 am 0FA921FA-FD8A-4A3A-B200-0374B6851A90.jpeg

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What horns are you using there @Yorkboy ?
Diese tuben sind nicht Deutsche. Ausländer!


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Doc wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:07 pm
Tubajug wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:22 pm
Yorkboy wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:45 am 0FA921FA-FD8A-4A3A-B200-0374B6851A90.jpeg

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What horns are you using there @Yorkboy ?
Diese tuben sind nicht Deutsche. Ausländer!


(Ich mache nur spaß😜)
kolbenventile :eyes:
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bloke wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:12 pm
Doc wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:07 pm
Tubajug wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:22 pm

What horns are you using there @Yorkboy ?
Diese tuben sind nicht Deutsche. Ausländer!

(Ich mache nur spaß😜)
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Doc wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:43 pm
bloke wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:12 pm
Doc wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:07 pm

Diese tuben sind nicht Deutsche. Ausländer!

(Ich mache nur spaß😜)
kolbenventile :eyes:
Es ist beschissen!
Zumindest ist es keine Posaune!
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bort2.0 wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 5:45 pm
Doc wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:43 pm
bloke wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 4:12 pm

kolbenventile :eyes:
Es ist beschissen!
Zumindest ist es keine Posaune!
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“Doc” wrote:Diese tuben sind nicht Deutsche. Ausländer!
(Ich mache nur spaß😜)
Manche Leute denken, Michigan sei ein fremdes Ausländ……..!

(Herr bloke, Ich glaube, der richtige Begriff ist "Perinetventile"……?)
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Tubajug wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 2:22 pm
Yorkboy wrote: Mon Oct 04, 2021 11:45 am 0FA921FA-FD8A-4A3A-B200-0374B6851A90.jpeg

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What horns are you using there @Yorkboy ?
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This was the Jinbao cimbasso...as the gig was over, and (during the previous break) I pulled it out of the trunk of the car (as I had just used it somewhere else on another gig, a couple of days earlier).
No...of course, I didn't practice that silly schlock, but - after doing that silliness - I DID realize that I was going to have to build my own cimbasso, because I needed one that is easier play, easier to move around on, has valves that actually move, and easier to do slurs (As heard, LOTS of notes just didn't happen, when playing that thing).
(ie. That - as crappy as it was - was a HELL of a lot more work and WAY less accurate, compared to playing it - as I had for decades - on my F tuba.)

...so (since this video was made) that cimbasso is gone and (actually) that country club in Memphis (The Racquet Club) has been bulldozed too. :bugeyes:
Jim wrote:That's the first time anything like that has been played in Memphis...maybe the last time...(??)
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Most have seen pictures, but here's the one that I built (much MUCH easier to play (German valves/linkage, way smaller bore, "bass trombone"-sized mouthpiece receiver, etc...) - which has replaced the Jinbao (typical Jinbao valves, and monstrous copy-of-Rudy .728" bore :smilie6: ) ...


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Yorkboy wrote: Tue Oct 05, 2021 6:50 pm
“Doc” wrote:Diese tuben sind nicht Deutsche. Ausländer!
(Ich mache nur spaß😜)
Manche Leute denken, Michigan sei ein fremdes Ausländ……..!

(Herr bloke, Ich glaube, der richtige Begriff ist "Perinetventile"……?)
Singular: Ausland
Plural: Ausländer
😉
Perinetventile ist korrekt :clap:
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