From "Gentlemen More Dolce Please"

[Bowerybum]

"Before we leave the brasses let us dwell for a moment upon the lowly and lonely tuba player. There is only one in the entire orchestra and he enjoys a certain amount of prestige-and loneliness. Tuba players never talk. They are silent, morose, uncommunicative, but they sing to themselves. They have no common interests with any of their colleagues and, as a matter of fact, most tuba players feel like they don't even belong in the orchestra. They usually strike up a strong friendship with the stage manager. How does one get to be a tuba player? Most become so by accident; someone willed a tuba to the family, the local town band needed one, etc., etc. Nevertheless, the present-day tuba player in a symphony orchestra is an artist in his craft. The young man recently engaged by the Boston Symphony does the most amazing things on his unwieldy instrument, including playing all the French horn concertos, for which he has not endeared himself to his horn colleagues."
From "Gentlemen, More Dolce Please" by Harry Ellis Dickson, 1969 By the way Harry Ellis Dickson was the father-in-law of Michael Dukakis, former governor of Massachusetts and candidate for president in 1988.

[Mike]

Chester Schmitz !

[Ben]

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