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No, really… I'm down there. Look carefully for the fat guy with the tuba…

Yes, I have a nice Jupiter JTU1110 tuba. But when all is said and done, I have more fun with Souzy playing outdoor concerts.

Go ahead: feed my narcissism.

UncleBeer wrote: Tue Mar 31, 2026 3:26 pm Go ahead: feed my narcissism.

YOU… MAGNIFICENT… BEAST!

That tuba is so beautiful and sounds so good...
I listen to it every day

Played the Morgan Freeman Symphonic Blues Experience the other night. Great show! Mr. Freeman did a short Q$A with our CEO, his band was phenomenal, and we were joined by the legendary Taj Mahal at the end!

Me & my O99. Haven't played it outside of the house yet.

Bassboner wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2026 10:31 am Me & my O99. Haven't played it outside of the house yet.

o99.jpg

I have, although it has been a while...



I heartily recommend it.

Spoiler

This was posted on reddit the summer this forum started by the photographer. I've gotten way too much mileage out of it, including it in a response to my high school alumni magazine where i profusely apologized for wasting my education. They told me they would not publish the apology, but did i have a higher resolution copy of the photo? Next year i chided them for giving me the impression i was better seen and not heard.

Spoiler

To be fair at a subsequent alumni event i heard there was a framed copy of the picture in the alumni department office, and i was apparently something of a legend.

(Sorry i am so slow. Trying to keep narcissism at bay)

humBell wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2026 2:44 pm

Oh, yeah, that's excellent.

Bassboner wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2026 7:02 pm

humBell wrote: Thu Apr 02, 2026 2:44 pm

Oh, yeah, that's excellent.

Does kinda set the bar high for sharing photos though...
And i''m actually okay with that.

@humBell Where was that photo taken?

bort2.0 wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 6:24 pm @humBell Where was that photo taken?

Mt. Cardigan.

I kind of thought it looked like New Hampshire. The mountains there are pretty incredible.

Back before I was married and I was living in Baltimore, I drove up to the mountains in NH/VT "just because" for a few days around my birthday. I left very early on a Thursday, met a friend in NJ for lunch, stopped by Dillon music to chat with Matt (first time I met him, maybe?) and then up through NYC and into the good parts. Spent the night in Montpelier, and was surprised that it had taken about 5 hours to get from the city up there. The next day, I hiked around the White Mountains until about 4pm, drove home and arrived after midnight, then up at 7am to go tailgate at a college football game.

I probably should have stayed up there a little longer, it's a beautiful place.

I didn't bring a tuba though.

humBell wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 7:52 pm

bort2.0 wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 6:24 pm @humBell Where was that photo taken?

Mt. Cardigan.

Shoulda brought a sweater…!

arpthark wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 10:52 pm

humBell wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 7:52 pm

bort2.0 wrote: Thu Apr 09, 2026 6:24 pm @humBell Where was that photo taken?

Mt. Cardigan.

Shoulda brought a sweater…!

It is indeed typically breezy up there.

Fond memories of bringing a bell front baritone, and trying to work out with a friend the wind speed from the doppler effect observed due to playing with or against the wind.

These are photos of me over 45 years playing the tuba du jour.

A very young me test-driving a tuba built to played in the southern hemisphere.
Our tuba quartet, the Baltimore Conical Bass Horn Ensemble" at an outdoor party. When shown this photo, one of my main tuba teachers said, "You guys look like a bunch of Smokey Mountain moonshiners!"
The Homewood Brass Consort in concert,
Hopkins Symphony Orchestra trombones and tuba with a bunch of other people.
Me and the HSO trombones playing Tchaikovsky Symphony #5
A later iteration of the Homewood Brass Consort
Me ca. 2010
Old me.
Yes. I was also a very competent horn player

Randy -- I remember meeting you in the late 90s at Dave Weiner's 'Brass Arts Unlimited' out in Rosedale or something. I had him restore an Olds 99 that was missing a valve. Did a great job on it. I think you were hanging out in the shop and playing horn and chatting with Dave when I was there.

All those years in the same city, and that's the only time I think we met.

Bort2.0:

That must have been not long after I sold Brass Arts Unlimited to Dave. The shop was mine until August of 1998.

hbcrandy wrote: Mon Apr 13, 2026 10:35 pm Bort2.0:

That must have been not long after I sold Brass Arts Unlimited to Dave. The shop was mine until August of 1998.

It may have even been August of 1998.

My HS band director gave me the tuba, if I promised to get it repaired and use it (which was fine, I wanted to do that anyway). I graduated HS in spring of 1998, and pretty sure I dropped it off there with Dave before I headed down to College Park for school. So... summer of 1998.

Truth be told, this guy hasn't experienced a lot of facetime lately, but it's time for another John Williams pops, and this guy's the closest thing - sonically - I have to the Miraphone 185 that was originally used to play the Jaws theme.



Oh yeah...The obligatory yet truthful "My F tuba is better than yours" probably belongs here. (The SECRET is the 44 years of patina, along with an interior lining of magical spit.)

Actually, my comment on Facebook was "It's time - once again -.to play out of tune with the French horns."