I HATE IT WHEN PEOPLE ASK ME TO FIX THEIR FRIGGIN' CASES !!!

[LoyalTubist]

I remember an old Besson E-flat tuba I found in a closet of the band room at Colton Junior High School in 1969. Inside the tuba, we found a bag of hamburgers and fries from the original McDonald's on E Street in San Bernardino--even in 1969 it was the closest Mickey D's to Colton. Anyway, the bag had a logo that hadn't been used in years. The way we knew where it came from was a handwritten receipt with the address printed on it. The two hamburgers, two cheeseburgers, and four orders of fries were untouched, unchanged in color, and hard as a rock--there is always one junior high kid who would try to eat this kind of stuff! (No, not me!)

The amazing part was the price: $1.10 (including tax)!

The receipt was dated 1961.

[Dan Schultz]

..... It just made the package deal so much more pride-filled for me when the customer picked up the horn.

Per my earlier post.... Yes, I gripe and grumble about doing case repairs but I recognize that it's a very important part of band instrument repair... even though I often 'give away' lots of parts and labor doing so. Most band directors, parents, (and musicians, for that matter) don't know squat about the mechanics of their instruments. All that matters to most folks is that the instrument looks good, the case doesn't cause the instrument to dump onto the floor when they pick it up, and that the instrument plays reasonably in tune. Granted, most professionals know the difference between 'good' and 'bad' horns... but for the most part what the novice player sees is what counts.

[Albertibass]

yeah at camp over the summer the ground was so hott that it warped my case whells, so now its clunky. but yeah i like my wheels.