Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
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MN_TimTuba
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Re: Anybody doin Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
Nope. Community Band Christmas Concert in Detroit Lakes. Snow and 20-40 mph winds today!
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Big Francis
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Re: Anybody doin Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
Played the Northfield event last Saturday. Have a concert in St. Paul tonight and the call time for that is too early to play Rochester today.
Have fun there! Let me know how crowded it is. It was a tight fit on the Northfield stage this year.
Frank
Have fun there! Let me know how crowded it is. It was a tight fit on the Northfield stage this year.
Frank
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Re: Anybody doin Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
Looks like about 60 of us. We actually have space!Big Francis wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 11:22 am Played the Northfield event last Saturday. Have a concert in St. Paul tonight and the call time for that is too early to play Rochester today.
Have fun there! Let me know how crowded it is. It was a tight fit on the Northfield stage this year.
Frank
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MN_TimTuba
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Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
@ronr Are you playing the little Packer today?
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Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
I am. It performed marvelously!
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Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
Sorry I didn’t see this. I was the lone sousaphone today. A drive for me compared to Minneapolis but was fun.
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Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
What, an hour and a halfish down 52?
(not that i drove when i lived there... or played tuba)
Meanwhile i wasn't the lone sousa. And i did get to play baritone 2 as that's what worked best for the group.
And by the end, i kinda had figured out this whole blending thing...
"All art is one." -Hal
Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
Yeah an hour and a half. We’re in Minnetonka. My wife and daughter enjoyed shopping at the mall during rehearsal so we may be back there next year. I may bring my tuba next year. The sousaphone is fun but nice to play a modern instrument sometimes too.
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Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
That’s a gorgeous horn you have!JRaymo wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 7:20 pm Yeah an hour and a half. We’re in Minnetonka. My wife and daughter enjoyed shopping at the mall during rehearsal so we may be back there next year. I may bring my tuba next year. The sousaphone is fun but nice to play a modern instrument sometimes too.
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2013 J Packer 379 Bbb
1905 York Helicon
1960 Reynolds Contempora Sousaphone
2022 Wessex fiberglass sousaphone
1905 York Helicon
1960 Reynolds Contempora Sousaphone
2022 Wessex fiberglass sousaphone
Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
Thanks,
I had one of this same model which was a better player than this one. Martin Wilk did a pretty amazing job getting it to play modern pitch. There are still some tricky notes to play in tune similar to many vintage Eb tubas but it is at least manageable now. I played it before he did anything to it and it was impossible for me to play in tune. He took it a long way to get it playable. He had to cut the bugle.
The valve overhaul is really nice. Martin did send out the valves and I don’t know who did them other than is was not the guy on the west coast.
Whoever did them did a nice job. Martin vented all 4 and made a new neck and also used his tuning bit design so it’s completely solid and works better than any other sousaphone I’ve played.
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I had one of this same model which was a better player than this one. Martin Wilk did a pretty amazing job getting it to play modern pitch. There are still some tricky notes to play in tune similar to many vintage Eb tubas but it is at least manageable now. I played it before he did anything to it and it was impossible for me to play in tune. He took it a long way to get it playable. He had to cut the bugle.
The valve overhaul is really nice. Martin did send out the valves and I don’t know who did them other than is was not the guy on the west coast.
Whoever did them did a nice job. Martin vented all 4 and made a new neck and also used his tuning bit design so it’s completely solid and works better than any other sousaphone I’ve played.
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Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
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Re: Anybody doing Rochester MN TubaChristmas tomorrow?
Yes,
Had a really good one years ago and I let it go. This one had some miles on her but it’s playing pretty good now.
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Had a really good one years ago and I let it go. This one had some miles on her but it’s playing pretty good now.
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