BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Bobert
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 04:36 PM

Man wakes up after being driven home in a drunken state after a party down the street and discovers he has left his coat. Not even sure where he was he just knocks on a few doors asking if he had been at there the night before...

Finally the woman at the door says "Yes, and you got pretty drunk" to which the man apologizes. Upon retrieving his coat the man turns to the woamn and says, "Excuse me, I really have to know where you found that gold toilet?" to which the woman replied loudly looking over her sholdier...

..."Hey, Herry, I've found the guy who crapped in your tuba!"....

Nevermind..........

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Wilfried Schaum
Date: 31 Dec 03 - 12:26 PM

Donuel - I love them, especially the Shakepeare piece. How I'd like tubee a Tubee again!

Happy new year!
Wilfried

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 02:42 PM

Dunno. I've never bought one. But a friend of mine bought two of them and had to transport them on the roof of her Volkswagen. The saleman asked her if she wanted her tubas tied.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Bill D
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 11:15 AM

" tubas in Eb, C, Bb or a fourth key I don't remember"

...so when you go to buy a tuba, the sales persons asks," Tuba E, or NOT tuba E?"

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Rapparee
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 08:52 AM

Sousaphones are usually keyed in BBb, tubas in Eb, C, Bb or a fourth key I don't remember. The first Sousaphone had the bell pointed up, like a tuba (it's still in existence at the maker's factory, J. W. Pepper). I think that the first person to play it in the rain drowned when their umpa couldn't keep up with the input....

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Helen
Date: 30 Dec 03 - 03:12 AM

I heard an amazing rendition of Vivaldi's Four Seasons a couple of weeks ago, with the tuba as the main solo instrument. You'd have to hear it to believe how good it sounded.

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 09:23 PM

Basser bass in the Sousaphone, I think. But I never played a tuba or a Sousaphone, so I'm not speaking from experience. I understand, though, that because of the size and direction of the bell the Sousaphone is louder than a tuba.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 04:20 PM

sorry lame, cowardly, "guest" troll, but they ARE good...now go eat a Billy Goat Gruff

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 04:14 PM

And Donuel wonders why he can't get a syndicated strip...

Pssst, Donuel. They have to be any good

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 03:32 PM

The sousaphone *is* a tuba, as I understand it -- but not every tuba is a sousaphone.

Marching band maven John Philip Sousa redesigned the standard tuba for maximum portability by wrapping the horn in circles around the player's body (instead of winding it up in a wad to be held in front of the body). Same length of horn, just coiled up in a different configuration.

In the US if not elsewhere, the sousaphone is probably more familiar to more people than the original tuba because it is more visible as a marching-band instrument -- but the name is not nearly so familiar. The masses generally recognize the sausaphone as a "tuba" (if not as "the" tuba).

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: TIA
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 03:16 PM

Best use of Tuba plus guitar was, of course, Jelly Man Kelly (click down the page a bit on the right).

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Rapparee
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 03:05 PM

Bill D., that first picture is of a Sousaphone, not a tuba.

And as a trumpeter, I am forced to ask: What's your problem with brass in folk and jazz, huh? Ya wanna step outside and discuss it? Huh?

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Bill D
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:12 PM

hey, Don...here's one to play with..

and the obvious pun 2x4

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Leadfingers
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 02:05 PM

Fogie- try swopping Lawyer For Mouthpiece. I liked em all.

Subject: RE: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: fogie
Date: 29 Dec 03 - 12:49 PM

Well I enjoyed them but I didnt understand the one about the mouthpiece. Are you a Tubaist? how do you get on with the folk-blues scene ? Do you hanker after euphoniums or tenors- in fact what do you do musically.

Subject: BS: The Tuba - in a class by itself
From: Donuel
Date: 28 Dec 03 - 04:59 PM

Here are some tuba cartoons I did today

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/tuba5.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/tuba4.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/tuba3.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/tuba2.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/tuba1.jpg

http://www.angelfire.com/md2/customviolins/tuba.jpg