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Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 9:35 pm
by Dylan King
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:10 pm
by NDSPTuba
Me with my King
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:16 pm
by eupher61
David Richoux wrote: (see if you can find a somewhat famous person playing sousaphone in our 2009 parade coverage.)
ummmmm.....sorry...
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 10:54 pm
by tokuno
schlepporello wrote:I've got to get me a baby mute one of these days.
There's no better wah-wah mute, but imho, too much stinkin' back pressure
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:12 pm
by ken k
David Richoux wrote:eupher61 wrote:amazing how many helicons are being shown...cool!
How about this 1918 USQMC Conn?
1918-conn-BBb-1978.jpg
I rescued it from a basement - removed the duct tape and nasty stuff growing in it and had it reassembled. Not a bad use of $350! Sold it to someone on the East Coast a few years ago. The band is
http://ltwcmb.com/ (see if you can find a somewhat famous person playing sousaphone in our 2009 parade coverage.)
love the helmet.. I had one of those when i was kid! (helmet not the helicon) Is that a helicon helmet? to protect your head while putting the helicon on?
k
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:13 pm
by ken k
[/quote]I've got to get me a baby mute one of these days.
[/quote]
Better check with the Mrs first, schlepp?!?!?!
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Sun Mar 29, 2009 11:21 pm
by David Richoux
eupher61 wrote:David Richoux wrote: (see if you can find a somewhat famous person playing sousaphone in our 2009 parade coverage.)
ummmmm.....sorry... :oops: :?
here is a big klue:
http://ltwcmb.com/pix/paddy-2009/sp9-ds-2930_2.jpg - now all you have to do is figure out who he is... way easy with Google. (lookie what I just found:
http://mixedmeters.com/2008/01/sousapho ... t-and.html )
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 12:54 am
by katietes
Me and my MW2145... Sorry it's not a helicon..!
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 4:41 am
by Wyvern
duckskiff wrote:
Just don't try that with a BAT. You may never see the little chap again!
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 11:07 am
by oedipoes
That's me.
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Mon Mar 30, 2009 7:02 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
tokuno wrote:schlepporello wrote:I've got to get me a baby mute one of these days.
There's no better wah-wah mute, but imho, too much
stinkin' back pressure
It helps if you change the diaper
before you put the mute in! Granted, depending on how loud (or low) you play, you might have to change it again after ...
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 2:25 am
by David Richoux
Bob1062 wrote:My old Eb making me make a stupid face (I used to have a picture from a dixieland show with me "blasting" my bass trombone RIGHT into some little girl's ear with here cupping here hand around her ear and smiling :D). It also apparently gave me a stupid haircut. :D
Interesting little horn!
It is hard to tell from that view - does the bell actually touch the top bow? What is that silvery thing at the crest of the top bow?
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:34 am
by kegmcnabb
Rockin' the souzy!
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Tue Mar 31, 2009 8:42 am
by bearphonium
Kelly's NHB Washborn 207.jpg
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 4:19 pm
by David Richoux
Here I am with my 1929-ish Conn 4 banger (playing with the Zenith Brass Band at "New Orleans By The Bay" a few years ago. The festival is no more.)
conn-sousaphone.jpg
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:16 pm
by scottw
Sorry, did not work!
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:33 pm
by scottw
Here is a particularly flattering shot of me and my Mirafone 186, located just beneath a wonderful portrait of Abe Lincoln [the first one, not the latter-day version]
Edit: I think I did everything correctly, but I still can't view the picture!
Edit Edit: I fixed it for you - Schlepp
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 10:44 pm
by bort
Robert, you do realize that now you have to explain why you were with tuba in the beer aisle...
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 11:15 pm
by TubaRay
bort wrote:Robert, you do realize that now you have to explain why you were with tuba in the beer aisle...
Whatever the reason, it was a nice touch.
Re: Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours
Posted: Sat Apr 11, 2009 12:36 am
by Dean E
Yamaha YFB822S Custom (photo by Alex Rogge)