plastic bags filled with helium strapped to them


Good luck getting through the stage door.*

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*Mythbusters decided to figure out how many helium-filled balloons it would take to ...

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I searched for “straits” and got this. I suppose it says something about how I spend my time on the internet but I’m happy with the results.

Why don't Berlin, San Francisco, Pittsburgh, Cologne, and a few other orchestras duke it out for being the Champion Orchestra of the World?

Could they use their instruments as weapons?

Should they wear bright colored spandex with sponsorship ads silk screened?

Would the mediocre professional ...

Even though this is a trumpet video it explains the basics pretty well. My experience is that venting is very useful on slides you adjust frequently. It also seems to me to make slurs a little bit smoother. That observation, though, is well within the statistical margin for placebo effect error ...

Sadly, it was stolen from me after performing the 1982 Tuba Christmas in Los Angeles, with Jim Self directing and Harvey Phillips as guest conductor and player with the professional ensemble. After our performance, my buddy, a euphonium player and I went to a small bar/café to listen to the ...

Is this guy still around? Wouldn’t you want your horn to have, “That sensational ‘55 Look?”

Job before starting woodwind repairs- Secretary of the Treasury. I have a two dollar bill with what I am convinced is her signature.

First woodwind repair- Making a new Heckelphone bocal from a Dairy Queen bendy straw.

What do I win????

I guess in closing, everything with kids is an arms race. My boys are doing their first year of little League (definitely not a sport that I follow) and they keep wanting to upgrade to this glove and this or that $300 bat because that's what the other kids have. Gotta look cool, even though their ...

From “Trombone Technique” by Denis Wick:

“It has sometimes been suggested that this (the bass trombone) is a makeshift instrument, a large-bore tenor trombone, masquerading as a bass trombone. But the quality of sound when played with a very large mouthpiece is a true bass trombone sound- extension ...

Here is a picture from a Whit Friday in the U.K. If you look at the tuba player on the right of the photo (lacquer finish horn) it might give you some ideas about strap positioning.

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bloke wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2026 10:07 pm I'd like to rant about ranting.

Is that like a rant with a descant?

@bloke so how FAR was this bastard?


I only know the distance on angstroms.


“Far” in today’s English comes from feorr in Old English. Back in those days “far” could mean a sheep, evil passion, mischief, or a dangerous illness. bloke frequently comments on his advanced years so perhaps he ...

I am quite happy with my Metaphysics, Epistemology and Ethics 5A and see no reason to switch. It is only on such a mouthpiece that one can formulate a consistent musical theory and achieve it in practice. Other mouthpieces produce only an embarrassing conglomeration of impotence, futility ...

Really, @the elephant, if you are going to watch Howard Keel you should at least get to hear him sing.

I know, very deep subject matter but…

Assuming slightly older case, flip up handle on the bottom bow end, wheels slightly inset from the edges, wheels work fine.

So, push or pull?


You left out an option.

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Vincent Cichowicz, former Chicago Symphony trumpet player used to say,* “Changing your mouthpiece fixes all your problems for three weeks. That’s why I change every two weeks.”

*I’m going to guess he was smiling when he said it.

No...I'm certainly no Carol Kaye (nor any of the other past bass gods and goddesses)...but I'm trying to teach myself some oldies (by ear, off of youtube) that I never played "back then"...


When I think of you and a bass, I’m thinking more along the lines of Bob Babbitt; rock solid in the ...

The Wessex B220 has the right specs.

https://us.wessex-tubas.com/products/tu ... 7454945460

They are currently out of stock but you can ask them when they might get more. I have a Wessex bag for my PT-15 clone and am quite happy with it.