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No... But now you have our attention!!

Tim

ibtuba wrote:Does anyone know anything about the tuba throwing contest?

Carol Jantsch won the women's division in Finland.
http://www.fromthetop.org/Programs/perf ... m?pid=1677

Is tuba-tossing akin to dwarf-tossing?

pwhitaker wrote:Is tuba-tossing akin to dwarf-tossing?

Hmmm..... never been asked to fix a dwarf before

I have discussed it with my old band director at one time. we had some old jupiter three valve convertibles. so we decided to have a contest and charge like a dollar a throw. but it never happened the school wouldn't let us do it or something like that. Must of been because it was their horns . But thats about all i have on it.

josh wagner wrote:I have discussed it with my old band director at one time. we had some old jupiter three valve convertibles. so we decided to have a contest and charge like a dollar a throw. but it never happened the school wouldn't let us do it or something like that. Must of been because it was their horns . But thats about all i have on it.

Even if the horns were absolute junk, as long as the valves sort-of moved they could be sent home with students as practice instruments. I have come across many high school and middle school students who would love to have any kind of horn to practice on at home. A few districts lend out old fiberglass sousas, but try getting that home with a hardcase on a schoolbus, or getting a kid to actually go through the trouble of assembling the thing and putting it on just to blow a few scales once a day. A small Jupiter would be just the ticket.

Dean E wrote:Carol Jantsch won the women's division in Finland.
http://www.fromthetop.org/Programs/perf ... m?pid=1677

Go to the bottom of the article, click the real button and listen to the 17 yr old Carol's Flight of the Bumblebee. She could play a bit back then too.

ibtuba wrote:Does anyone know anything about the tuba throwing contest?

It's like tossing your cookies, only a tuba is MUCH bigger (even those little French ones), a tuba is often made entirely from metal, and tubas don't fit very well on your hard drive, even if your browser will accept them.

Could be a good event at the first TubeNet convention! Draw names and the winner gets to launch an HB from a trebuchet!!!
Tim

What's the range of a tuba........

10 feet if you have a good arm.....

Is that a 3/4 horn or a 6/4 horn....

I can see it now there would be different classifications for sousaphones, BATs, etc.....sort of like SCCA racing.....

For some reason I can not imagine cellists doing the same thing at a cellists convention.....

LunchboxTScontra wrote:Certainly no sacriledge of this sort occurs. Why throw such a majestic instrument through the air and let it hit the ground? . . . . . . It does seem pretty fun though, I wouldn't mind throwing my old high school's Yamahas and watching them fly for a while. those horns were trash!

i think I would rather let them hit the ground than try to catch them, that might hurt.