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gwwilk · Post by **gwwilk** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:15 pm

Chuck Jackson wrote:Took a Z-Pack for an Upper Resp. infection and I'm still ugly as a train wreck. I thought anibiotics were supposed to clear these things up?

Chuck"perplexed"Jackson

I began a reply, and then I realized you would be better off touching base with your prescriber's office for advice. There are too many possibilities to be dealt with by 'remote control.' They know you and you know them, so they're your 'go-to' guys.

bort · Post by **bort** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 6:23 pm

Well, if a Z pack didn't work, how about a 6 pack?

(But really, I feel for you... respiratory and sinus stuff suuuuuuuuucks!)

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 10:22 pm

gwwilk wrote:I began a reply, and then I realized you would be better off touching base with your prescriber's office for advice. There are too many possibilities to be dealt with by 'remote control.' They know you and you know them, so they're your 'go-to' guys.

Obviously, my humor wasn't broad enough. I am feeling much better and am still ugly enough to make a train take a dirt road. You have been up dated.

Chuck"ling"Jackson

gwwilk · Post by **gwwilk** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:00 am

Chuck Jackson wrote:
gwwilk wrote:I began a reply, and then I realized you would be better off touching base with your prescriber's office for advice. There are too many possibilities to be dealt with by 'remote control.' They know you and you know them, so they're your 'go-to' guys.
Obviously, my humor wasn't broad enough. I am feeling much better and am still ugly enough to make a train take a dirt road. You have been up dated.

Chuck"ling"Jackson

You just unleashed the retired physician in me, is all, Chuck. I try to restrain all such impulses, but my success rate is spotty at best. In all my years of practice I never met a hypochondriac, because even they get sick. Ergo, all complaints must be taken seriously. Old habits die hard. Next time you're gonna die in bed, buddy, cause I ain't helpin'.

Chuck Jackson · Post by **Chuck Jackson** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:14 am

gwwilk wrote:Next time you're gonna die in bed, buddy, cause I ain't helpin'.

I'm hoping I'm shot by a jealous husband when I'm 102. Old habits die hard here, too.

Chuck

gwwilk · Post by **gwwilk** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 9:45 am

Chuck Jackson wrote:
gwwilk wrote:Next time you're gonna die in bed, buddy, cause I ain't helpin'.
I'm hoping I'm shot by a jealous husband when I'm 102. Old habits die hard here, too.

Chuck

Well, I guess that sorta fits the scenario...

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 10:05 am

Chuck Jackson wrote:I'm hoping I'm shot by a jealous husband when I'm 102. Old habits die hard here, too.

and, apparently, so do grudges in your neck 'o the woods...

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Thu Oct 18, 2012 2:28 pm

bloke wrote:It's really surprising how much ground two people can cover (killing poison ivy) in just an hour or so when one person is armed with nippers and a bow saw and the other person is armed with a backpack pump sprayer full of Round-Up.

Just imagine how much ground you could cover if the other person were armed with a backpack pump sprayer full of gasoline.

Uncle Buck · Post by **Uncle Buck** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:26 am

KiltieTuba wrote:I'm sorta drunk . . .

When you took the photo, or when you posted it to TubeNet???

bort · Post by **bort** » Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:20 am

Whoa, your beard is so small now!

gwwilk · Post by **gwwilk** » Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:39 pm

Doc wrote:
the elephant wrote:Lee's announcement is the first exciting I have seen posted on this site in years. Good luck, Lee. I will want one of these one day. I am saving up my pennies starting right now, sir.

Everyone support Lee and buy his tubas as they become available. He will be producing them to order and they will not be cheap. But I bet they will be very decent playing horns. I look forward to getting to play one and may have to show up to a tuba event to do so. (I have not been to any sort of tuba-related stuff since 1987.)
???

Direct me there, please.

Lee posted his announcement in the Sponsors' Section. It looks like a great new/revived CC tuba is in the works!

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:41 am

KiltieTuba wrote:.... When I read the post, it seems like he's describing much what Greenhoe Trombones strives for on their instruments. At least when I was there, every part was meticulously cleaned and squared off before any mounting/soldering occurred. I can understand doing this on a trombone with only a few slides and crooks, but given how many tubes, the size and all the parts a CC tuba has, it sounds like Lee's tubas will cost a fortune! I just wonder what parts he has - wouldn't really seem right to have a conglomerate of various bells and parts, with some of the same old Getzen G-50 parts.

Of course, if he really is building them to the "buyer's specifications", then I can imagine certain difference, but it seems odd that Lee is making it clear that it's based on the Getzen/York layout...

I'm not knocking his abilities or what he's trying to do, it just seems that there are several people like this that build really good tubas from various parts.

I'll be waiting for the horn-dorn though

Ian... as I read Lee's post... I understood that he bought the tooling/parts/and such 'lock, stock, & barrel' and is going to be focused on putting the horns together with a little more care than the factory may have. I totally agree with Lee when he implies that 'most all tubas have assembly problems'. I have yet to take apart ANY tuba that didn't exhibit some form of quirk that could have made it play at less than 100%.

It appears to me that Lee's horns will be built to order ... NOT to individual owner specifications.

bort · Post by **bort** » Mon Oct 22, 2012 9:53 am

Congratulations Lee!

Heavy_Metal · Post by **Heavy_Metal** » Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:02 pm

+1... Best of luck, Lee.

sousaphone68 · Post by **sousaphone68** » Fri Oct 26, 2012 3:30 pm

Coming to you live from row f awaiting the start of Skyfall

PMeuph · Post by **PMeuph** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:07 am

I played a pep band gig on sousaphone last night. The valves froze in about 3 minutes and kept on freezing every 30 seconds or so. During half-time, I put the horn down on the ground and stood by a heater. When I picked up the horn, the condensation inside had totally frozen up and caused a complete blockage of the first valve slide. It was about -12°C/10°F with the windchill.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 9:29 am

PMeuph wrote:I played a pep band gig on sousaphone last night. The valves froze in about 3 minutes and kept on freezing every 30 seconds or so. During half-time, I put the horn down on the ground and stood by a heater. When I picked up the horn, the condensation inside had totally frozen up and caused a complete blockage of the first valve slide. It was about -12°C/10°F with the windchill.

Today's forecast high(here) is 64 degrees. It is a bit chilly. I feel your pain.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Sat Oct 27, 2012 4:02 pm

PMeuph wrote:I played a pep band gig on sousaphone last night. The valves froze in about 3 minutes and kept on freezing every 30 seconds or so. During half-time, I put the horn down on the ground and stood by a heater. When I picked up the horn, the condensation inside had totally frozen up and caused a complete blockage of the first valve slide. It was about -12°C/10°F with the windchill.

In conditions like that... it would be very difficult for me to call it a 'pep band'!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Oct 28, 2012 1:12 pm

TubaTinker wrote:In conditions like that... it would be very difficult for me to call it a 'pep band'!

more of a "pep-to" band, really...

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Mon Oct 29, 2012 8:39 am

windshieldbug wrote:
TubaTinker wrote:In conditions like that... it would be very difficult for me to call it a 'pep band'!
more of a "pep-to" band, really...

It does sound like the conditions were rather a-bismol ...

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