Elephant for sousaphone

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Elephant for sousaphone

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Does anyone have any idea where I can get a Elephant cover for a sousaphone bell?? Iam sure one of the fellow tuba player have seen them.

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I don't know where you can buy one, but I am assuming you are looking for this for a school function. Ask a parent. There is usually one that can sow. If you can not find any parent that can look at local universities. If they have a theater department, they could make you one. If that does not work then just find a seamstress, look in the phone book, or even ask a church, they sometimes have people that do sowing for them. Good Luck
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Do you mean something like this?
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I certainly like the masking done in PhotoShop or in a similar application. And then we see the recognition about an important fact:

Music is very much about ears!

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imperialbari wrote:Image

I certainly like the masking done in PhotoShop or in a similar application. And then we see the recognition about an important fact:

Music is very much about ears!

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You mean you think it is fake? :shock:
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I don’t know about materials making such structure stable, durable, bearable, and payable at the same time. And then I don’t believe that the joining of the trunk and the bow is a 2D representation of something having happened in 3D.

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It's a Fair Cop - you got me!

I did it in Photoshop last year... (don't know who the player is.) http://www.pbase.com/clickaway/image/27876848
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yoink wrote:I don't know where you can buy one, but I am assuming you are looking for this for a school function. Ask a parent. There is usually one that can sow. If you can not find any parent that can look at local universities. If they have a theater department, they could make you one. If that does not work then just find a seamstress, look in the phone book, or even ask a church, they sometimes have people that do sowing for them. Good Luck
I really don't see how that will help....
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yoink wrote:I don't know where you can buy one, but I am assuming you are looking for this for a school function. Ask a parent. There is usually one that can sow. If you can not find any parent that can look at local universities. If they have a theater department, they could make you one. If that does not work then just find a seamstress, look in the phone book, or even ask a church, they sometimes have people that do sowing for them. Good Luck
Sows???

Here's one:

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I've never seen a sow at universities, even in the theatre dept. Then again, I do recall a coupla pigs in the viola section in the music department...they were twins.

Here's a picture of one of 'em, without the instrument:

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Not sure about church, but I guess I've seen a few there too; but in the phone book?
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Wonder what kind of wild oats those sows would sow. Seamstress anyone?
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bloke wrote:Here's one of them...

...after I "tweaked" it: :roll:
:shock: You "tweaked" (nudge, nudge, wink, wink...) one of the "pigs" in the viola section in the music department:?: :?:


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Oh man, I thought when I read the title of this thread that I could trade Wade for a sousaphone!
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