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The Tuba Christmas Website got a Facelift

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https://tubachristmas.com/

I had to double check to make sure I was on the correct site.

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A Christmas miracle!

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Before we know it, the books are going to have some interesting new well-written Christmas carol arrangements in them, and - magically - the shopping malls ( those which aren't already shuttered) will become safe places to park our cars, enter into them, and play music.
... and magically the rednecks in the back - who play their sousaphones way too loud and play the first tuba part or even the first euphonium part - will get lost on the way and won't show up.
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Me: I hope they finally made a Google map with all the locations.

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Me: :facepalm2: Well... it's a start.
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Children's steadfast belief in Harvey Claus continues to this day, whereby - magically - he can somehow visit all the locations (for - at least - a few moments) even though several occur at the same time.

As this picture is black-and-white, it's obviously from one of the early 1950's TubaChristmas celebrations.
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The Coca-Cola Company invented Tuba Christmas. :tuba:

It’s all run by a Big Eastern Syndicate you know….

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Three Valves wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 8:42 pm The Coca-Cola Company invented Tuba Christmas. :tuba:

It’s all run by a Big Eastern Syndicate you know….

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...yeah...In the past I referred to the AFL-CIO (with which our Musicians Union is affiliated) as the Gangsters Union...but the Gangsters left the AFL-CIO (twenty years ago?), so I could no longer correctly refer to it as that.
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It's "The United Men's Social Club with the initials M.O.B." . . . " :laugh:
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Most of the location popups are missing date/time
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bloke wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 6:28 pm ... and magically the rednecks in the back - who play their sousaphones way too loud.
I am going to be classy this year... and play the GG contrabass bugle instead of the sousaphone. I've been told to just to play a close note for the ones I don't have and to make sure the bell of pointed directly at the conductor and guest musicians in the front row at all times so they can hear me really well. .
As amateur as they come...I know just enough to be dangerous.

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gocsick wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 6:09 am I am going to be classy this year... and play the GG contrabass bugle instead of the sousaphone. I've been told to just to play a close note for the ones I don't have and to make sure the bell of pointed directly at the conductor and guest musicians in the front row at all times so they can hear me really well. .
In all the different tuba christmas gigs I have attended only one organizer/promoter/conductor was smart enough to ban that bullshirt e.g. no forward-facing marching bugles, marching baritones, etc
ATMO there are just a couple things worse than blatting sousaphone or bugle players thinking its funny...one is joking about doing it on purpose as if it IS funny, and the other is attempting to debate about it
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dp wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:54 pm
gocsick wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 6:09 am I am going to be classy this year... and play the GG contrabass bugle instead of the sousaphone. I've been told to just to play a close note for the ones I don't have and to make sure the bell of pointed directly at the conductor and guest musicians in the front row at all times so they can hear me really well. .
In all the different tuba christmas gigs I have attended only one organizer/promoter/conductor was smart enough to ban that bullshirt e.g. no forward-facing marching bugles, marching baritones, etc
ATMO there are just a couple things worse than blatting sousaphone or bugle players thinking its funny...one is joking about doing it on purpose as if it IS funny, and the other is attempting to debate about it
If you like, I'll begin trolling on this topic, and reel in some argumentative posts...(??)
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bloke wrote: Thu Sep 19, 2024 11:43 pm
If you like, I'll begin trolling on this topic, and reel in some argumentative posts...(??)
pfft

There is that shitload of tuba christmas events on the facelifted site that don't have a date and time for the listed locations...
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Supposedly they populated the maps with last years events. This years info is still being collected.
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bort2.0 wrote: Wed Sep 18, 2024 7:41 pm Me: I hope they finally made a Google map with all the locations.

Website:
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Me: :facepalm2: Well... it's a start.

Zoom in and they are all distinctly visible.
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tadawson wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:05 pm Zoom in and they are all distinctly visible.
:laugh:
Now that...THAT is funny.

You'd better be careful about being funny. You're going to get called out for trolling, and accused of running off all of the titled people within academia. :smilie8:

Also, we're not supposed to crack jokes about TubaChristmas... it's a very serious and somber time. :care:
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I hadn't meant to copy hs image, and was too lazy to remember how to screen shot on my tablet, but on the page, zooming def works - no humor intended . . . *this* time :-)
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bloke wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:15 pm
tadawson wrote: Fri Sep 20, 2024 9:05 pm Zoom in and they are all distinctly visible.
:laugh:
Now that...THAT is funny.

You'd better be careful about being funny. You're going to get called out for trolling, and accused of running off all of the titled people within academia. :smilie8:

Also, we're not supposed to crack jokes about TubaChristmas... it's a very serious and somber time. :care:
Harvey Phillips yelling "pay attention dammit!!" at me .. in a rehearsal of 250+ people... Remains my TubaChristmas memory-to-beat.

Somber AF. :laugh:
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Hey Brett,
Where you been?
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I am already missing the list them all by date option.
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