Gene Pokorny - Ashokan Farewell

[TheHatTuba]

The first time I heard this song, it was also by Gene in an old youtube video (still there). I like it

[tubaing]

I brought my tuba to my grandfather's funeral and played ashokan farewell when they lowered the casket

[TheHatTuba]

Did something very similar. I kind of butchered it, but people aren't allowed to point things out like that at a service

Unrelated to the music, it's interesting to see some patches on the York. I wonder if they're "just cosmetic." Maybe they even improve the tone

[internalanarchy]

It looks like a Laskey he's still using. Anyone know if it's the 30H?

[bloke]

...Dr. Gene: the master of the (real) tubas...the contrabasses

I spent too much time (beginning in the early '80's) playing a bass tuba, and - for several (many?) years - didn't even own a contrabass tuba... ' bad move, on my part.

[The Big Ben]

Seems ya'll missed Big Gene's message. Maybe it was because he was holding the Great Golden Calf of Tuba Excellence but his message was that "being part of something bigger than yourself" is what musical performance is all about. We're all band goons here but what about all of the non-band goons we've played with all these years? What was n it for them? I feel it all of the time and especially feel it now that I play tuba instead of trumpet or horn. I'm no wonder artist. I work hard and play the best I can but it's lucky for me that, when I'm playing, there are two other players with tuba performance degrees sitting next to me. What I've recognized that the band goes better when I practice hard and play the best I can. Few in the audience really know what is going on in that back row but that throbbing that keeps the group on time and on task begins back there and I'm a part of it. That feeling or one similar is the reason someone should play even for a short period of time.

The small community orchestra I play in has done an arrangement of Ashokan Farewell a couple of times and our audiences found it moving.

[bloke]

When at home practicing by myself, I can't make chords neither with 3 nor 65 players), and can't enhance treble clef players' beautiful solos at home by myself...
' pretty sure: pointed out here, quite a few times...