musical riddle (for the YOUNGSTERS)

[bloke]

I would prefer that only the under-30 crowd (I believe I've heard you referred to as "Generation S"...??) attempt to answer this musical riddle.
Regardless: Maybe - to allow others to guess, just answer with this if you know the answer.
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...so I was testing my new-to-me euphonium against my straight mute for fit/tuning/response (as this bell is a different interior width/taper from that of my previous instrument).
My wife came up and told me about something that possibly (??) could prove to be an "issue", so I played this.
She laughed, but (well...) she's as old as I am...
...so how many of you YOUNGER folks can identify this "excerpt" ??

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(You probably ?? will need to turn the sound ON...)

>> https://imgur.com/a/PgeN3Or

[bloke]

Here's the answer.
(This isn't the precise quote...but I would have to look through this-or-other episodes to find the precise one.)
Only click on it, if you're through trying to remember where you heard it:

https://tinyurl.com/JustAboutSixtyYearsAgo

[Three Valves]

Don’t worry Kiddos, I didn’t get that one and I actually watched the show!!

[the elephant]

To call that one "arcane" would be kind…

[bloke]

more like McCain…

…I didn’t say it was easy.

…but anyone my age and older knew it instantly on fb.

…so I played it on a 6/4 euphonium. Would you have liked it better on a 4/4 euphonium?

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NEXT DAY EDIT:

OK...That was a little joke...but it also wasn't a joke:

BOTH FEATURE THE SAME-SIZE LARGE BORE (COMPENSATING VALVESETS) , AND BOTH ARE EUROPEAN-MADE.
(Pictures are with the same corks at the same thickness.)

4/4


6/4

[the elephant]

I am an avid TV person (or I used to be) and I know this show. I *might* have… naaaaaaaah — I *never* would have gotten this one, and I am very good at this game as we play it here all the time.

Again, look up "arcane" as this is the very definition of the word.



The last one I missed this badly was Barney Fife's theme on a trombone.

[bloke]

Thanks...
I've been to kolij (even gadget-skoo')
Maybe I should have used it in a sentence, to prove that I'm smart 'n' stuff (??)

lookie..hee'...
I knows it !

[the elephant]

I suspect that it was the mute that threw me off.

[bloke]

moot...and ar-bitrary

Put a cork in it.

TRUTH:
Though that rotary kaiser-bariton (American misnomer: "tenor tuba") thing-of-mine bell is even (considerably) fatter,
I had no idea that compensating euphonium bell sizes varied this much in "fatness"...
...Unlike tubas (where "high" isn't actually high at all), the huge bell (combined with a huge mouthpipe and huge valveset bore)
defines that (for a mere/meager doubler - such as myself...and with a "real" euphonium mouthpiece: Wick SM3) the pitches above C began to actually become "work" to play.

compare/contrast:
The brought-back-from-the-dead Yamaha YEP-321 (bloke-attic rediscovered) - with a Schilke 51 stuck therein - "sings" a pretty nice (even for a no-muscle-tone tuba player) E-flat, "up there" (which defines it as an "MSH" (Mars Survival Horn).

bloke "...brea-fus and coffee are getting cold, and I missed the first half of this morning's *Perry Mason episode..."
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*which features its OWN every-episode-recycled leitmotifs

[tokuno]

I'm the right age to have seen it in re-runs (my peers discussed it), but we didn't own a television :-(
My parents thought we'd be better served by reading instead of watching.
On the other hand, I do own a '92 lever :-)