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@Three Valves

You seem interested in these program sheets (listing all the pieces for the next pops).
The October/Halloween theme is sorta worn out, so...

Last year, the October pops was sports-related music.
This year, it's all cowboy/western related.

guest artist (country singer) https://brandonlay.com/about/

The "Jackson" tune is the John Cash/June Carter one.



These shows are way less pressure, because there's not any counting hundreds of measures (lots of playing) and any fast licks sorta play themselves (ie. idiomatic). Also...(ex.) if Mahler - and someone screws up during a rehearsal - the m.d. sorta feels an obligation to feign concern, whereas - if its one of these tunes - everyone can laugh about it and move on.





btw...I stay in the finished attic of this old mansion - owned by an orchestra patron.
It's within a few blocks of all of the venues where we play, and across the railroad tracks from the cheapest gas and the best gas-station food in town. (last time: $3.09...a terribly-high price, but the best-of-the-worst)
(Two of the bone players stay on the second floor.)
The orchestra will put me up in a really nice hotel, but - every d@mn time I've tried one of the hotels - I've ended up with (either bad or - at least - annoying) cooties...even when I bring my own bedding, and toss theirs in the corner of the room. (Hotels are just plain nasty. )

That sounds like a ton of fun.

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“Gun shot sounds via laptop computer”

Oh come on, you can do better than that!

Three Valves wrote: ↑Thu Oct 05, 2023 5:35 pm “Gun shot sounds via laptop computer”

Oh come on, you can do better than that!

Something something Memphis field recording.

When I saw the tittle three valves I didn’t think of the member but rather, instead, of three valve instruments.

My mistake aside I wonder whether the OP needs other than a three valve BBb to play the music shown and listed?

I believe the OP did use a 3-valve BBb tuba (albeit in sousaphone form) for parts of a recent orchestra concert.

Our last concert featured real cannons, and the indoor gunshot sounds are going to be through A-L Voice Of The Theater speakers, so they should sound pretty good...(??)

I used a sousaphone to play the Banner, and music director jumped into the next piece so quickly that I used it on that as well. Playing in B-flat major on a sousaphone is not much of an intonation test, but plowing through that next piece - which was in various keys - reminded me of how flexible 11/16-in bore sousaphones are - as far as pitch is concerned.