playing with fire

[tbonesullivan]

ARGGHH. Why are some people like that. DO NOT TOUCH THE GEAR. I see this with other items considered "toys", and they don't see why it could possibly be a problem that they are about to touch a part of a motorcycle that will instantly result in 2nd degree burns or worse.

[bisontuba]

Tell him you have the flu and he probably just infected himself unless he runs to the restroom to wash his hands. ..

[Three Valves]

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[Donn]

Well, you know, a band musician is more or less in the same category as a rental birthday clown, they just are more likely to come over and talk to you because no scary face paint. So that might suggest a possible solution.

[Ace]

Well, you know, a band musician is more or less in the same category as a rental birthday clown, they just are more likely to come over and talk to you because no scary face paint. So that might suggest a possible solution.

I suspect an angry Joe is probably scary enough without face paint.

I remember taking my brand new Miraphone tuba to orchestra rehearsal some years ago, and made the stupid mistake of leaving it out of the case over in a corner of the room I thought was safe during the rehearsal break. Not so. I went ballistic when a violinist whose case was in the vicinity had her hard leather shoe three inches on the bell rim. Fortunately, no damage was done, but I will always remember her and she will remember me.

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[windshieldbug]

Well, you know, a band musician is more or less in the same category as a rental birthday clown, they just are more likely to come over and talk to you because no scary face paint. So that might suggest a possible solution.

I suspect an angry Joe is probably scary enough without face paint.

I remember taking my brand new Miraphone tuba to orchestra rehearsal some years ago, and made the stupid mistake of leaving it out of the case over in a corner of the room I thought was safe during the rehearsal break. Not so. I went ballistic when a violinist whose case was in the vicinity had her hard leather shoe three inches on the bell rim. Fortunately, no damage was done, but I will always remember her and she will remember me.

[Bill Troiano]

I might have posted this a while ago, but when I played in the Long Island Symphony, the bass tbn. player was the personnel manager. During required breaks, he would get up, make announcements and say that anyone who has any concerns, especially over pay, should come see him in his office. His office was his chair, which of course, was right next to mine. I would leave my tuba on the bell during breaks, but I was annoyed when people would gather around his chair (usually string players) and some would step on my bell. I would ask them to be careful and it continued in subsequent rehearsals. I guess I was in my late 30’s back then and if I was older and wiser, I would just move the tuba. But noooooooo - I was stubborn.

So, while playing, I began dumping my water/spit all around my chair, creating a moat around 4 ft. in circumference. Then during breaks, I would stand off stage with my orchestra brass friends, and I’d say watch this. People would go to talk to the manager and see my moat and it was funny to watch as they tried to navigate around it, while not losing their place in line to gripe about something. And, I left the tuba right there. Nobody stepped on it. Take that !!

[oleirgens]

Today - at the end of a gig, a patron walked up to the edge of the stage, stated that he really enjoyed the show, and started chatting me up.

WHILE chatting me up, he RESTED HIS ARM on my mouthpiece inserted into the mouthpipe (as I had set the tuba on its bell).

I tell everybody not to touch my instrument. Except my wife, of course, but she is, on the other hand, very gentle.

[toobagrowl]

-- Just this last Saturday I did a holiday/Christmas parade. After we were done, I was putting my sousaphone up in my car trunk. The bell was in, the sousa body still on the ground right by the trunk. I turn around for 2 seconds and a bass drummer nearly trips over the sousa body, scratching it up
I say "watch it, watch it, watch it" and put my hand out so he wont actually step on my sousa and trip. I ask if he is OK, he says "yeah". He was clumsy, and wasnt watching where he was going Luckily It is my fiberglass Selmer Signet, so I can just gently sand and spray paint over the scratched section. I've had to do this several times now due to OTHER people being careless around my horn, scratching it up. I guess that is what I get 'helping out' at a college band.

-- Couple months ago after a gig, I went to put my tuba up in it's soft case. As I was getting situated a guy comes in to get something on a shelf right over my tuba (where I thought it would be safe), and has his shoe on my tuba bell Luckily there was no damage and he didn't step down on it. I did tell him that tuba was over 100 years old, hinting that it was no longer made and valuable to me

So no matter how careful I am with my horns, it is OTHER people who I worry about when near my horns