Hilarity ensued!!
The Octoberfest Thread
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Three Valves
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
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!!
Hilarity ensued!!
Thought Criminal
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Mack Brass Artiste
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Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
I’m waiting for @ParLawGod Jeremiah Eis to post, so the thread gets back on track...
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
Oktoberfest @ Fredericksburg, TX
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McKinney, TX. Blazing sun, aluminum trailer/stage.
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
Thought Criminal
Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
Re: The Octoberfest Thread
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
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.
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.
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
My guess was also that it's your original CC, Wade.
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Jordan
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"No one else is placed exactly as we are in our opportune human orbits."
King 2341 with Holton Monster Eb Bell
King/Conn Eb Frankentuba
Pan AmeriConn BBb Helicon
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
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).
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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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).
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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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
What horns are you using there @Yorkboy ?
Jordan
King 2341 with Holton Monster Eb Bell
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"No one else is placed exactly as we are in our opportune human orbits."
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King/Conn Eb Frankentuba
Pan AmeriConn BBb Helicon
Yamaha YBB-103
"No one else is placed exactly as we are in our opportune human orbits."
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
Diese tuben sind nicht Deutsche. Ausländer!
(Ich mache nur spaß
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
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Manche Leute denken, Michigan sei ein fremdes Ausländ……..!“Doc” wrote:Diese tuben sind nicht Deutsche. Ausländer!
(Ich mache nur spaß)
(Herr bloke, Ich glaube, der richtige Begriff ist "Perinetventile"……?)
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
York 716 (?)* with detachable bell, and a York 712 (that I’ve owned since I was 19) - both with (eek) added 5th valves.
* more correctly, I would call it a 712 with a detachable bell stack - the tube routing and piston angle are same as a 712 (I obtained the horn without a bell - now it has both a detachable bell front and upright as well, thanks to a serendipitous trade with Herr bloke)
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
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.
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
) ...
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.
Jim wrote:That's the first time anything like that has been played in Memphis...maybe the last time...(??)
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
) ...
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Re: The Octoberfest Thread
Singular: Ausland
Plural: Ausländer
Perinetventile ist korrekt
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Schenkelaars rotary Eb, Cerveny BBb, Thomann 4+1 comp. Eb