MaryAnn wrote:Weeelllll....those are often the guys who can actually afford one.
Except for all the other expenses of life to which they assign higher priority. Lots of poor musicians pay ten or twenty grand for a tuba, but then it's their gig and so it gets their first dollars.
Rick "who buys tubas with what's left over...[grumble, grumble]...from tomorrow's paycheck" Denney
the elephant wrote:I won my audition on a school-owned, silver plated 188. It was a great horn. (I had just sold my horn the year prior and was still saving up for a more expensive tuba. So I played everything on that 188 for two years.)
There were a few guys that showed up with a lot of equipment and the other finalist had a nice, matched set of Hirsbrunners.
I just had the one school-owned tuba.
You wouldn't be telling us, now, that you had a World Class Sound on that 188?
