Hello, friends.
Anybody have a BBb sousaphone that I could rent for a gig in Baltimore on Monday, 11/17?
A friend of mine has started an occasional house concert series on Monday nights and invited me out. I always prefer to rent a horn wherever I'm going as opposed to rolling the dice with the the ...

This is the older style with more fiberglass/less brass tubing in the bugle.
I'd want to see the valves before considering it.

While wearing it, pivot the bell down almost all the way to the ground. Shift your hips to the left and lean over to your right. While in that position, pull the bell back up to playing position. Straighten up and drain the 3rd valve. Then do it all once more. Should be good.

Welcome to sousaphone ...

I thought you might understand what I was going for.

After the "dump" on bar 4, I'd lay out to give space for the melody and then just come in on the downbeat. But the walk down would work, too.

Lemme know if that's the one the bandleader was thinking of.

Have a good gig!

To me, that intro would be this.

Using the first 2 notes of the melody but down the octave:
bah-|dump bah-|dump bah-|dump bah-dump bah-|dump Melody(pick up)||

Not sure which recording that's from but I've heard and played that one before.

I love that Wilbur de Paris one, though. Man that guy ...

To be clear, that’s not “my” tune. I didn’t compose any of the songs on the album. Many of them are my arrangements, though. Inspired by my favorite NOLA groups: Nightcrawlers, Rebirth, Big Sam, the Meters, etc.

Glad you guys like it, though!

Howdy.

This is a group that's been performing occasionally for the past few years. Back in August, the organ player reached out to me and asked if I'd like to do an album. He runs an organization called the Little Village Foundation which generally tries to help out underrepresented artists or ...

His name is Shane Cox. He's the guy playing both trumpet and bone. This was his project. But it was short lived as he moved out to Minneapolis soon after we did the recording.

Here is a version of that tune we recorded a few years back.
Obviously, the video is not of the recording session.
Not the same arrangement.

Thank you prairieboy1 !
I made contact with Jevon from Little Brown Jug Brass and it looks like we're going to make it work.
https://littlebrownjugbrass.com/

Thank you to the TubaForum community and organizers for facilitating things like this and so much more.
We're a better tuba world because of ...

I have a gig in Banff of Saturday 1/25.
Flying in to Calgary on Friday and back out Sunday evening.
I always try to not fly with my sousaphone and instead find a rental.
If you've got a decently functioning BBb sousaphone in the Calgary/Banff area that you're willing to rent out, I'd happily pay you ...

I remember seeing this horn on the old site.

That is a cool horn. I have a soft spot for fixed recording bells.

Don't these older ones like this have the slightly larger bore than the standard 1240/2340 horns?

Agreed about the price. Not realistic.

I agree that fiberglass horns sound pretty good, to everyone else. But I have a much harder time hearing myself when I play my 22K vs playing my 38K.

The bag is a good idea. It does offer some protection but it's main functions are to keep everything together and to ease transportation.

The ...

Gotta love that big beautiful Martin!

It’s hard to believe that they wouldn’t sell it. It seems that with that many dedicated users, including myself, there’s a pretty significant amount of money being left on the table by just ending it. I can’t imagine that whatever deal they’ve made with Dorico comes anywhere close to what they could ...

The ability to separate the bell flair from the elbow and then nest the elbow inside the flair is pretty cool. I'm sure the price won't be cool, though.

The big issue that I have from using plastic/fiberglass bells is that I can't hear myself nearly as well as with a metal bell. I'd expect that to ...

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Hello, tuba family.
I'm doing a very short brass band hit in Scottsdale, AZ during the day on Wednesday, April 10. Wondering if anyone has a BBb sousaphone that I could rent for a couple of hours. I'd rather put some money in the ...

I'm pretty sure Doc has the Eb version.

I have the BBb. Until last year, it was my main horn since getting it in 2018. A very kind gentleman gifted me a Martin helicon from the 20s last year. As most of you'd probably guess, the Martin is a superior instrument in just about every way so the Wessex ...