Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours

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Me and my "Schillbrunner"
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All these great photos, but none of the tuba in it's natural (Bavarian) environment.....
Me and my PT1
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Hey nice photo Bubba.....or is it "tubaboy"?

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David Richoux wrote:
Waltski wrote:Here is me and my Amati/Kraslice 4 value rotary...
interesting looking mute you got there! :-)
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Would that be the cup & reversed cone mute to match the blokepiece?

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LJV wrote:The elephant's evil twin:

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No; his evil twin is the OTHER picture... :shock:
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OK, we recently read his report that he used to be skinny enough to share a sousaphone with a lady. But I never imagined him as skinny as his logo on the bell suggests.

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Me and the high school tuba I have played for 4 years
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This has a bad angle on it. Here I am playing one of my high school's bass trombones (with Cup mute)
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that dude was decapitated, someone put his head on a music stand, and he kept playing....COOL!
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He is a freakin' dedicated trumpet player, he really is.
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I've already posted in this thread, but this picture has recently surfaced on facebook. It's an example of my new breathing technique, and I've found that it's really improved my air capacity!
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Playing my school horn with Fuzzicle, my old band from the pre-beard days.
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My trusty rusty Miraphone 184. w00t.
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Dude, where did you get that strap? I want to be able to carry one of my tubas that way...
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Tuba Guy wrote:Dude, where did you get that strap? I want to be able to carry one of my tubas that way...
It's actually the strap from a pair of roller blades I outgrew when I was thirteen. I just threaded the strap through the loops on the 184 and there it was. It's a pretty basic setup; I'm sure you could find a similar strap without much trouble.
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Walhalla, 2006, freezing my a$$ off.
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Me and my 1923 BBb Conn - and as rendered by my daughter (playing a 4th of July gig).
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My mom, at age 16 in the 1930's with her high school's helicon. My aunt and my sister both also played tuba!
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Walhalla, 2006, freezing my a$$ off.
From the position of the bottom bow, it looks like you are freezing more than your a** off, lgb&d.
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Mojo workin' wrote:
Walhalla, 2006, freezing my a$$ off.
From the position of the bottom bow, it looks like you are freezing more than your a** off, lgb&d.
Too true :tuba:
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Here am I with the latest addition to my tuba family and one that was entirely unplanned :P

I had just visited Mr.Tuba to get Mark Carter to do a small job on one of my tubas and while waiting had a toot on this hand-made gold brass B&S PT-15 he had in stock - to immediately fall in love! I have not been over impressed with the low register of F tubas previously, but was blown away at how good it is on this F, while the high register simply just sings. I pulled out an excerpts book and played Bydlo straight off on it - no problem.

So although to be honest, I did not really need another bass tuba, already having (what I consider) the best Eb around in the M-W 2040/5 - I could just not leave the PT-15 behind! I guess it chose me? :lol:
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Neptune wrote:Here am I with the latest addition to my tuba family and one that was entirely unplanned :P

I had just visited Mr.Tuba to get Mark Carter to do a small job on one of my tubas and while waiting had a toot on this hand-made gold brass B&S PT-15 he had in stock - to immediately fall in love! I have not been over impressed with the low register of F tubas previously, but was blown away at how good it is on this F, while the high register simply just sings. I pulled out an excerpts book and played Bydlo straight off on it - no problem.

So although to be honest, I did not really need another bass tuba, already having (what I consider) the best Eb around in the M-W 2040/5 - I could just not leave the PT-15 behind! I guess it chose me? :lol:
Hey, jonathan, congratulations!
It sure looks the thing too !

I guess it's better to invest it in tubas than putting it on a fuzzy bank-account isn't it?

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