Ya know ....

[tclements]

... I used to post here a lot. I feel like I've said everything I could. HOWEVER, having said that, is there anything you'd like to know? I'll share my experience and my, admittedly, biased opinions. ANYTHING!

<Yes, I posted this on the OTHER site, too!>

[bloke]

You're not biased @tclements You're just always right.

[tclements]

@bloke - YOU DA MAN!!!

[arpthark]

... I used to post here a lot. I feel like I've said everything I could. HOWEVER, having said that, is there anything you'd like to know? I'll share my experience and my, admittedly, biased opinions. ANYTHING!

<Yes, I posted this on the OTHER site, too!>

Sure, I'll bite.

What kinds of playing are you doing nowadays?

How many tubas do you currently own, and what do you use the most?

What's your favorite memory playing the tuba?

What's the highest-profile playing you've done?

Where can I hear your playing?

If you could go back in time, what tuba would you have kept? Which one would you have sold?

How do you feel about Facebook largely replacing the tuba forums as a place for instrument-specific discourse?

[York-aholic]

What was the most helpful thing (playing wise) that anyone has said to you?

[gocsick]

Forget all that.. I want to hear your political opinions and ideas on monetary policy.

[tclements]

@arpthark

What kinds of playing are you doing nowadays?
mostly orchestral, some trad jazz, & I play with the Peninsula Banjo Band!!

How many tubas do you currently own, and what do you use the most?
5 - YamaYork, mostly. and the Wessex Chicago presence for Trad Jazz and with the banjo band. Norm Pearson F when I need it. I use the 4/4 Yamaha (6-something) for smaller works.

What's your favorite memory playing the tuba?
Summer at Disneyland. Solo tour in Japan. My weeks with the SF Symphony

What's the highest-profile playing you've done?
SF Symphony, for sure

Where can I hear your playing?
I still play with Symphony San Jose. It is not the 40-week job I used to have, but we play 10-12 concerts a year. Playing NUTCRACKER this December.

If you could go back in time, what tuba would you have kept? Which one would you have sold?
In 1971, I bought a Bill Bell Model Meinl-Weston. I believe Gary Buttery has this tuba now. The big Hirsbrunner I bought IN Switzerland, at Peter's shop, was a special instrument as well. The ones I wanted to sell, are LONG gone. Honestly, I never had a crappy tuba. I am pretty thorough when I purchase an instrument. Some didn't suit me as well, and after a year or so, after giving them a good testing, I'd move them along.

How do you feel about Facebook largely replacing the tuba forums as a place for instrument-specific discourse?
It has its place, but I prefer this and the Tubenet.

Thanks for asking.....

[tclements]

@York-aholic Funny, when I was studying with Bobo, we used to talk about all sorts of things. Once he got frustrated with my over analyzing and said, "Just play the forking tuba!!!" Best advice I ever got. When I started struggling with task specific focal dystonia, I went back this concept and with Jan Kagarice's help, it saved my career.

[arpthark]

In 1971, I bought a Bill Bell Model Meinl-Weston. I believe Gary Buttery has this tuba now. The big Hirsbrunner I bought IN Switzerland, at Peter's shop, was a special instrument as well. The ones I wanted to sell, are LONG gone. Honestly, I never had a crappy tuba. I am pretty thorough when I purchase an instrument. Some didn't suit me as well, and after a year or so, after giving them a good testing, I'd move them along.

Gary lives down the road from me. I'll have to bug him about that.

[Stryk]

Tell me about focal dystonia - I am starting to believe I have something of the sort. What did you do to help it?

[bloke]

How much copyrighted and rental music have you loaded onto your tablet?

[tclements]

@bloke - None. What's in my tablet is PD. As for my orchestral gigs, I still use paper parts.

[tadawson]

I can't say that I have ever looked into the specifics for sheet music, but I was always under the understanding that if a person had legal rights to a work, that making copies for personal use was completely legal - IE if you scan itnto your tablet for your use, you are fine. Giving it to others, no . . .

So, in that vein, 100% of what I have on paper is in my tablet, with the paper being filed and held as my "right to use" (much in the same way as making a (dating myself) cassette copy of an album to use in the car has always been legal.

[bloke]

How about American in Paris. Is that stored in anyone's tablet?

I use paper at concerts as well, but because I'm not interested in buying a tablet and because almost all organizations that hire me to play don't supply me with one with the music loaded on it. An additional reason is because when sheet music falls on the floor, it doesn't usually crack.

[arpthark]

@tclements, can you share anything about dealing with FD? How did it first manifest?

I quit all playing hardly at all for five years, and playing in earnest for about 8 years, because I was dealing with FD-like symptoms. Got back on the horse in 2022 and never really looked back.

[MiBrassFS]

Exactly how many licks DOES it take to get to the middle of a Tootsie Pop…?

[arpthark]

Exactly how many licks DOES it take to get to the middle of a Tootsie Pop…?

91:

[tokuno]

... I'll share my experience and my, admittedly, biased opinions. ANYTHING!

. . . This far in and not a single question about the Yankees or the designated hitter . . .
You ever attended a Yankees World Series game?
Where do you like to bat in the lineup?
Your preferred fielding position & why?

Did you ever question your instrument or career choice, and consider something else?
Favorite performance venue or one you'd most like to experience but haven't yet? (excluding Yankee Stadium)

. . . Preferred sousaphone make and model?

[MiBrassFS]

How many cannolis can you eat in one sitting?

[Tim Jackson]

I think I read somewhere in a discussion concerning double peddle C (like in Kraft Encounters) that Tony easily popped out that note at a clinic. If so, what is your approach or technique?
TJ