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Thanks, @Three Valves - I posted the channel and concert links here:

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What band do you play in?

Olney. Just the Winter session year before last, hoping we get one this season, but we are in MOCO so…

OK- Joel is your director. He was in this concert too, on percussion. Ask him about the time @Mark E. Chachich and I filled in on Band Day several years ago.........

16-Valves Tuba Quartet of Chesterfield, VA

Fall Festival gig on October 30, 2021



Seated: Philip Jones (XO Professional Brass Artist)

Standing (L-R): Christopher Lair (ZO Artist), Larry Haake (Wessex Eb Gnagey), Ken Carlson (Miraphone 1291 BBb)

L-R: Schenkelaars Eb (me), St. Petersburg BB, Thomann 3/4 BB

Time to revive this with some pics, recent and old.

Here’s the Loudoun Brass Quintet, from 8 or 10 years ago:



And a more recent one (not well posed, in my view) from a bit before Covid:



And my main reason for posting now—Ray Grim posted this photo on FB. The year is 1992. The label is incorrect—there is only one member of the Sauerkrauts in this photo. Gary Trumet is in the upper right corner. The four older guys at left are the Tubameisters, who played weekends at Fiesta Texas. The four middle guys were students of Winston Morris at Tennessee Tech, who played weekdays, and the only name that in my old age comes back to me is Kenyon Wilson at the top right-of-center of the photo, next to Gary. I’m at left, with the Yamaha, and Ray is the top center with his Miraphone.



Rick “nothing but highlights in the memory banks” Denney

Bel Air Community Band Tuba Section 2022. First concert in two years:
From left: Cheryl Wald (Ziess? BBb), Andy Chaffee (Schiller BBb), Stephanie Bartholomew (Yamaha YBB-641 BBb) Jake Weller (Meinl-Weston 25 BBb) and me (principal, Alexander).

Photo credit- The Lovely Naoko

Where is Mark C?

The annual Arlington (TX) Salute to Community Bands was short by three bands this year due to covid concerns, so our Cross Timbers Tuba-Euphonium ensemble (front row) was invited to perform, as well as the Granbury Community Band, of which we are all members. We combined with the Tarleton State University Tuba Studio for a few pieces, and at the last minute, none other than @LeMark Mark Finley and his buddy Eric Stephens (they play in the Arlington Community Band) offered to sit in. Both are great readers, so they had no problem making us that much better. I got to sit between Eric on tuba and Mark on euphonium and just enjoyed soaking in their sounds. Fun day.

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 8:41 pmWhere is Mark C?

His situation changed and he had to step away from the band. We miss him and his Alex.

Central Coast Brass Band, that’s me on the right with a Yamaha Neo Bb

Recent Pops program, music from nine of the Star Wars films.

The red light was for Darth Maul as we played stuff from The Phantom Menace. An Assistant Principal Trombonist I don't know, Principal Adam Almeter, 2nd James Wilson, Bass Ken Lyon, and Principal Pachyderm on the Holton 345.


Bows after the Throne Room scene and Closing Theme from the original film. Note all the "light sabers" we sold to the crowd. They love those things…

Heavy_Metal wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 10:03 pm

bort2.0 wrote: ↑Sun May 15, 2022 8:41 pmWhere is Mark C?

His situation changed and he had to step away from the band. We miss him and his Alex.

Well, tell him I say hello. Sent him a message a while back and never heard from him... So I'm glad to hear he's just busy and not, well, anything else.

Will do.

Houston Brass Band



@Doc, myself, David Miller

Tuba1153 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 9:28 am Houston Brass Band



@Doc, myself, David Miller

Miraphone 496 BBb, early 1960's pre-Getzen MW 5/4 BBb, Gronitz PE55 Eb

Tuba1153 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 14, 2022 9:28 am Houston Brass Band



@Doc, myself, David Miller

I approve of the point of view!

The Mississippi Wind Symphony began life in the summer of 2000 as a sort of "ringer" group for winds and brass in the MSO along with many local professors and band directors. We would do three rehearsals and a concert, two times at the end of the school year, and that would be pretty much it. It was a great band, it was fun and challenging literature, and it was not a weekly commitment, so we all loved it. We only missed playing our two programs at the beginning of summer twice, in 2020 and 2021 of course, due to COVID-19 restrictions and an abundance of caution.

Dr. Craig Young, the band director at Mississippi College, is retiring after 23 years at MC and moving to Missouri to pay back his wife for her years of following him around. It is her turn, as he said to us at rehearsal. So tonight was our 20th year of playing (with COVID making it actually a span of 22 years) and this was it.

We have traditionally used two tubas. Originally it was me and Tex Chapman. After Tex (from Florida, but his middle name is Houston) actually moved to Texas (what are the chances???), one of my former students started to play. Over the years sometimes one or both of us has been unable to play, so we have had a few other guys sub for us here and there, but basically, it has been Jason and me for about a dozen years or more. In the last seven or eight years, Dr. Patrick Rettger (professor at Jackson State University) has been our go-to guy when one of us is unavailable. Somehow, for this one, final concert, Dr. Young screwed up and got all three of us.

So here is the tuba section for the final concert ever of the Mississippi Wind Symphony. Having played in this ensemble since 2000, I will seriously miss it.

Pat Rettger, Jason Harrell, Wade Rackley, June 21, 2022…

No one else to take the group over? Bummer................

Not as yet. I am sure the group of players who manage the band will figure out something. But it will never be the same group. It is an age and personality thing: it will have completely different group chemistry, as we have also lost four players recently to age and to COVID. That is a lot of change to such an old ensemble. But a lot of the pieces are still there from which to build a new group. Dr. Young did most of the work himself and owns the library, and no one who is qualified has stepped up as yet, and it does not pay.