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I mean it had a bunch of dramatic lighting effects…

I like the specs, the tuba, and the coiffure.

bloke wrote: Thu Oct 31, 2024 6:41 pm I like the specs, the tuba, and the coiffure.

I like the contemplative expression set of by the obviously sinister eyebrows.

I tried to share an image from my phone, and I don't have the app to do it. I'll come back and do it later.
(impressive/distinctive eyebrows on yet another handsome face)

... a long deceased cellist/music director who was a mentor of mine beginning around age 15 or so... probably pushed an audition committee to award me a scholarship to Interlochen, even though maybe I wasn't the strongest applicant (??)

As an adult - whereby I'm slipped into becoming more of a colleague, I would tell him some horribly filthy jokes at gig breaks, he would laugh hysterically, and then would drag me over and force me to tell them to his gorgeous wife. That cured me.

British Eb playing German brass music. (F tuba needs bumpers replaced and a good cleaning.)

Tubajug wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:57 am pic

Hi, Rudy!

arpthark wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:05 am

Tubajug wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:57 am pic

Hi, Rudy!

Rudy 8/4

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arpthark wrote: Mon Dec 16, 2024 10:36 am Mystic River Brass at the Lobster Trap Tree, Stonington, Connecticut, 12/17/2024.
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That tree is awesome! Great pictures and venue.

New to me Besson 995, the day I brought it home (last month).

Tomorrow I should be picking it up from getting cleaned, polished and some minor fixes.

Me with my 1964 Holton 345 last night at an outdoor Pops program of Superhero and Fantasy film music…

waiting for my next entrance...
' obviously forgot to remove the pencil from my ear...I'd wager that it stayed there all the way through the dinner break.

(If second half, I was probably planning out my exit strategy...
During intermission, I would sometimes double-park behind the music director's car for a super-fast load-out and escape (he would stay in his dressing room and shower/change prior to leaving)...
my favorite pops concerts: those with encores that don't have tuba parts written in them

Uncle Beer, hard at 'work'.

(Ignore that can o' beer on the amp)

Wow, I really look like my mother in this picture.

UncleBeer wrote: Fri Sep 19, 2025 11:05 am (Ignore that can o' beer on the amp)

Figured that was your nephew, Unc.

My 1909 Holton model 92

MikeFinn wrote: Sun Sep 21, 2025 8:33 am My 1909 Holton model 92

Is that first picture in NYC by chance? I have a picture from the 1980s with my parents near that spot (I believe). My mom called it "the $100 picture" because they double parked to get the picture and came back to a $100 ticket on the car window.

tubatodd wrote: Mon Sep 22, 2025 10:58 am

Is that first picture in NYC by chance? I have a picture from the 1980s with my parents near that spot (I believe). My mom called it "the $100 picture" because they double parked to get the picture and came back to a $100 ticket on the car window.

Nope, Town Center in Virginia Beach. Coincidentally, I got a parking ticket here a few years back, playing (gratis) for a group that called me up last minute. Was nowhere near $100 though, thankfully!

The album pic I included because it's the same model tuba.

MikeFinn wrote: Mon Sep 22, 2025 11:20 am

tubatodd wrote: Mon Sep 22, 2025 10:58 am

Is that first picture in NYC by chance? I have a picture from the 1980s with my parents near that spot (I believe). My mom called it "the $100 picture" because they double parked to get the picture and came back to a $100 ticket on the car window.

Nope, Town Center in Virginia Beach. Coincidentally, I got a parking ticket here a few years back, playing (gratis) for a group that called me up last minute. Was nowhere near $100 though, thankfully!

The album pic I included because it's the same model tuba.

Ha! That's hilarious about the ticket.

I should have noticed that what was behind you were not light up angels.