Things a great tuba spouse says:

[hbcrandy]

Doc and Others:

My wife has begun writing her memoirs as the wife of a tuba player and will be posted to Tubenet in the near future under a different topic. I hope it will entertain you as much as it seemed to entertain our principal oboist and third horn player at the orchestra party several years ago. They seemed to be QUITE amused.

[Matt Walters]

I forgot another tuba related one my wife said. "How about I just bring you the beer."

The story is: right after we moved into our handy man special of a house, one of the very first rooms Cathy painted and decorated was "The Tuba Room". Basically it is our TV room with reclining sofa, stereo system, book shelves stocked with books, and 4-5 tubas displayed in there. So... one day with Johnsonville Brats on the grill out back, a tuba playing visitor was taking the tour of my never ending project called a house and in "The Tuba Room" he comments, "This room has everything but a fridge stocked with beer." My wife overheard, stuck her head in the room and said, "How about I just bring you the beer." He then mumbled something like "you suck".
Beer, Brats, Tubas and a good Spouse!!

[Chuck W]

You sound better on the expensive one. We will figure out a way to pay for it.

[MikeW]

"If it won't fit in the tubarium, we don't have room for it! It can't stay where it is! "

< SIGH >

So my sousaphone had to go, leaving me with just a 4/4 EEb, a 3/4 Eb , and a 3/4 BBb.
Shame really, if the case hadn't had a hump on it for the bell connector I might have got away with disguising it as a coffee table - I tried suggesting that the hump under the table cloth made for interesting presentation of chips and salsa, but I guess that was one step too far.

The tubarium is a storage rack made of slotted angle and floorboards, and holds my tubas. It used to stand conveniently in the corner of the living room, but 3 moves later we have a basement...

[Tubajug]

I can't think of anything specific, but basically, if I can come up with a way to pay for something (aka, sell stuff on ebay, work an odd job here and there) I can buy stuff for my tuba. That's how I got an upright bell and a new mouthpiece. I'm working on putting together my dent magnet and ball set right now. She's very supportive of my tuba-ing! (and she's an amazing cook!!!)

[Bob Kolada]

n/a, and very happy to NOT be married.

[peter birch]

We have just had our 24th wedding anniversary, I found that the appropriate gift for this anniversary is a musical instrument. I asked if I could have a new tuba, she replied " not if you want to make it to the 25th"

[eupher61]

"Do you want a beer on your next break? Oh, there's a really hot blonde sitting behind me, you might want to check her out."

[euphomate]

Not strictly tuba but: The darling non-musician wife said: "Harry James didn't really play all those fast notes - he just twiddled his fingers across the valves quickly". Explanation re Harry James - we are of a certain age you might have noticed.

[Rick Denney]

1. "Just buy it. You sound good on it. I get good vibes from it."

2. (To others...) "My husband plays in the _______!"

3. "I like your tuba-playing friends."

4. "I'm glad the tubas are in the living room." (This includes the sousaphone hanging on the wall.)

Rick "who has bought all of her instruments, too" Denney

[tubatooter1940]

"I wouldn't mind if you buy a second tuba. All you have to do is show me how you can play them both at the same time."

[Kayla]

after seeing my tuba mute for the first time, "that looks like it should be under a fighter plane"

when he helps carry one of my tubas, "i wish you stayed on trumpet"

and my favorite

"you tuba people are weird"

[michaelkeys]

After I played the ITEC Semifinal this afternoon on a Tuba I borrowed from a friend, my wife told me: "you played great. I realized you hat to correct the intonation of the instrument. (slide pulling) I think we should buy you an instrument that works better with you"

[eupher61]

"Actually, would it be useful, or a collecting obsession piece? If it is useful, get it! Look at how well those three horns worked for the opera."

I love my wife! Of course, she now has 2 banjos...

[Steve Marcus]

"It's your practice time. I'll do the dishes."

Really. Nothing facetious, no guilt complex.

[dkrahl]

Wife: "How many tubas do you have?"
Me: "Should I count the trombone too?"

[opus37]

Your right honey, there is no such thing as too many mouthpieces.

[eupher61]

My wife did say NO to this one.

[Heavy_Metal]

(when going out of town) "I'd LOVE to fly home early to go to your concert!"

Took some pictures and videos too, some of which I've posted here.

Am I a lucky guy, or what?

[tbn.al]

"The bass trombone sounded unusually rich tonight". After a concert where she sang and I played the bass trombone parts, and/or tuba parts, all on tuba. Guess she doesn't like blatty bass. She also mustn't look up from her music much.