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I have one of Jim Self and one of Roger Bobo that I got from the Music Fest Canada Nationals last year. Actually, they came right off the wall of the Yamaha display room.

I saw a great poster the other day--one of the old 60's "instruments of the orchestra", complete with little portraits of musicians playing them. The set was wonderful; even with lesser-used instruments such as contrabassoon and harp.

The poster for tuba had a picture of a Conn 20J; I can't recall the tuba player featured on it, though. His name didn't ring a bell.

Chuck(G) wrote:The poster for tuba had a picture of a Conn 20J; I can't recall the tuba player featured on it, though. His name didn't ring a bell.

He must've "fit the bill", though ...

Kevin Hendrick wrote:

Chuck(G) wrote:The poster for tuba had a picture of a Conn 20J; I can't recall the tuba player featured on it, though. His name didn't ring a bell.

He must've "fit the bill", though ...

He was shown with an upright tuba, and I believe it was said that he played with the National Symphony--last name was something like "Lewin".

This ring any bells with anyone?

That'd be William Lewin, National Symphony Orchestra, early 60's, or so.

and, we've had conversations that a good set of tuba/euphonium trading cards would be a hoot to have around. Can you imagine? I'll trade you a Bobo rookie year with LA, for a vintage Bowman in the Navy card......

OR, I'll trade you a 68 Alexander F, for a 59 Mirafone BBb......

the possibilities are endless, and amazingly geeky....

dwaskew wrote:That'd be William Lewin, National Symphony Orchestra, early 60's, or so.

and, we've had conversations that a good set of tuba/euphonium trading cards would be a hoot to have around. Can you imagine? I'll trade you a Bobo rookie year with LA, for a vintage Bowman in the Navy card......

OR, I'll trade you a 68 Alexander F, for a 59 Mirafone BBb......

the possibilities are endless, and amazingly geeky....

I recognize that I'm a geek, but I think I could really get into that, myself. Of course, there aren't enough of us around to make it a profitable business venture. Too bad.

TubaRay wrote:

dwaskew wrote:That'd be William Lewin, National Symphony Orchestra, early 60's, or so.

and, we've had conversations that a good set of tuba/euphonium trading cards would be a hoot to have around. Can you imagine? I'll trade you a Bobo rookie year with LA, for a vintage Bowman in the Navy card......

OR, I'll trade you a 68 Alexander F, for a 59 Mirafone BBb......

the possibilities are endless, and amazingly geeky....

I recognize that I'm a geek, but I think I could really get into that, myself. Of course, there aren't enough of us around to make it a profitable business venture. Too bad.

It doesn't have to be profitable to get done. It just takes someone with the proper tools and images, and willingness to take it on. hmmm...

djohnson wrote:How about a deck of Tuba playing cards; similar to the the terrorist cards. except having the face cards being famous Tuba/Euph players. Aces through ten being photos of various instruments. Diamonds being BBb, Clubs as CCb, Hearts as Eb and Spades being F's. Geeky or not I'd buy a couple decks of these for myself and or gifts.

Who's the Joker?

Not something I've got time to take on, but there are companies to do this, for example:

http://www.customizedplayingcards.com/wst_page8.html

I'd suggest the red suits be brass horns (de-zinced) - piston brass = hearts, rotary brass = diamonds, then silver horns (tarnish ya' know) for the black suits = silver piston = spades, silver rotary = clubs.

The jokers would be sousaphones!

Maybe this could be a Tubenet fundraiser to generate $$$ for a composer commision.

wow,
trading cards,
AWESOME!
(yeah, I'm living up to my screen name)

Bill Pritchard

Deuces = double bell euphoniums
3,4,5,6 = 3,4,5,6 valved horns
7 = positions on a bass trombone slide
8 = 8va basso