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MiBrassFS wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2024 4:28 am He uses the 103 as a mute in this one…

A tuba xenomorph?

(Er... for those of you unfamiliar with the term... here is a parody of the original source material: )

MiBrassFS wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2024 4:28 am He uses the 103 as a mute in this one…

York-aholic wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:01 pmWhich of the horns in your signature is that thing?

I guess I haven't updated that. It's a Rudy Meinl Bayreuth 5/4 BBb. I got it from a local community player. He was able to attend the concert and hear it from the other end!

Tubajug wrote: Fri Nov 15, 2024 10:46 am

York-aholic wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 10:01 pmWhich of the horns in your signature is that thing?

I guess I haven't updated that. It's a Rudy Meinl Bayreuth 5/4 BBb. I got it from a local community player. He was able to attend the concert and hear it from the other end!

I’m a bit green with envy. The Bayreuth model is one I have always wanted to try but never had the opportunity.

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I have tried the 6/4 behemoth, and it is something on another level. I could get used to it if it was in the budget. It is otherworldly.

Tubajug wrote: Thu Nov 14, 2024 9:38 am Here is our Lincoln Civic Orchestra (community orchestra that's been around for about 45 years, I believe) low brass section. I played with the group for several seasons about 10 years ago, had to leave for scheduling reasons, then started back again last season. It's grown to about 90 people.



@gwwilk

Regarding the tuba that you are holding in this photograph.Insert drooling emoji here! !

Playing for the British Consul on Winston Churchill Day. The Prime Minister even came up to conduct The Cossack March.

"There is nothing to fear... but the brown note itself."

cktuba wrote: Thu Nov 21, 2024 9:12 am "There is nothing to fear... but the brown note itself."

Gives me a new appreciation for:

Frank Herbert wrote: I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Point of order:

If i play in a tuba xmas, what is my group or section?

Likely i will let someone else do the honors, so they have to make those decisions...

Bel Air Community Band Fall 2024 Tuba Section:
From Left: Grant Brayley, our newest member (Cerveny 683 Arion, or so it appears), Stephanie Bartholomew (Yamaha YBB-641), Jake Weller (Meinl-Weston 25) and me (Alexander, of course). All BBb horns this time.

My sons and I, community band winter concert.

Grumpikins wrote: Sat Jan 11, 2025 3:49 pm My sons and I, community band winter concert.

That’s a good looking family!

Someday, maybe I can help that baritone player learn how to tie a tie.

Thank you. We've tried really hard to raise them well. Working on giving them a good start so they can do better. The drummer wants to be an electrician. Going to college next year, then a trade school. Hornist wants to be a screenwriter, or author of some sort. One more year of HS, looking at a film school in Vermont.

I'm terrible with ties. My neck is so fat I cant button the top button of my shirts. If I get a shirt that fits my neck, the rest of it is like a tent. When I was in college i had a few shirts taken in so they fit better. Now, whatever. Its clean and white. Good nuff for me.

From @bloke :

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Bel Air Community Band Tuba Section, at yesterday's concert:
From left: Grant Brayley (Cerveny Arion BBb) Matt Miloszar (old Conn BBb) Stephanie Bartholomew (Yamaha YBB-641 BBb) and me (Alexander, of course).

Maryland All-State Community Band 2025 Tuba Section- I couldn't be there this year but the guys asked me to post it:

From left: James Wei (Miraphone Hagen 496 BBb), Dan Appleby (Meinl-Weston 3450 CC), Dan Stoudt (Yamaha YEB-321S Eb), Dan Roche (Yamaha YCB-661 CC) and Patrick FitzGerald, principal (Meinl-Weston 5450 "Thor" CC)

The concert isn't up on YouTuba yet, but with this section I know it was great!

A small part of the Euphonium section from the 2025 Oktubafest in Fredericksburg, TX. This event always kicks off the Oktoberfest, and several of the members of Tubaforum.net were there. Left to right: First is my orthopedic surgeon who is also one of my former band students from the 1990s and a trombone player in our community band, 2nd is the lead trombone from the community band, 3rd yours truly, and 4th a really nice guy with whom we had great conversations but never learned his name. He is probably the only true euphonium player in this group. Maybe I'll find out next year, but I intend to take my 184, as I should be fully healed from the knee replacement by then.

Welp....I was the only tuba who showed up yesterday for rehearsal....and it was glorious.



I don't mean for that sound as negative as it implies. I just enjoyed getting to play all of the solos and actually hear myself for once. After rehearsal I got quite a few compliments. Apparently I still know how to play.

tubatodd wrote: Mon Oct 06, 2025 7:20 am Welp....I was the only tuba who showed up yesterday for rehearsal....and it was glorious.



I don't mean for that sound as negative as it implies. I just enjoyed getting to play all of the solos and actually hear myself for once. After rehearsal I got quite a few compliments. Apparently I still know how to play.

One really good tuba player can balance a wind band.
Fortissimos sound more focused/bravura, and - of course - pianissimos are easier to control. Just as with other sections, technical passages are going to sound no better than the least capable player. If only one player understands how to phrase, the phrasing that one player does will not be heard.