What's Happened In The Last 40 Years?

tubaforce · Post by **tubaforce** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:40 pm

You can't Take the kids to Magic Mountain in California, then sneak out to try Miraphones in Sun Valley anymore! not for about 30 years! And an aspiring player can get a 5-rotor CC decent enough to take to college for a relative pittance! Mozart's "Turkish March" has been conquered by Ken Amis! Tubas are still made with only 3 valves, (but I refuse to order new ones!), and, yes, EEb axes are on the rise!

Al

Donn · Post by **Donn** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 2:49 pm

geneman06 wrote:Not that it's tuba related, But in the last last 40 years the frumpet came and went.

For those of you that don't know, the frumpet is possibly the worst brass instrument ever conceived...

Not personally acquainted with this instrument, but I know someone who has voiced similar sentiment. Luckily, as noted above, it has become practically impossible to market a bad tuba, so if there has ever been a tuba as bad as the frumpet was, it could only one of those deplorably bad tuba models that were rampant in the ancient history of the instrument.

Arbeegee · Post by **Arbeegee** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 7:19 pm

Very interesting stuff, folks.

Brown Mule wrote:Elvis died! His brain , heart, and other major organs are still in storage at Baptist Memorial hospital in Memphis!

Not a whole lot of difference from the kings in Egypt.

He coulda won a Grammy, (King Tut)
Buried in his Jammies, (King Tut)
Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia,
King Tut!

(Steve Martin)

Not sure why I felt compelled to do that.

RBG

ken k · Post by **ken k** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 9:37 pm

i hope they got Elvis's organs out of there before they demolished it...

TubaBobH · Post by **TubaBobH** » Thu Mar 03, 2011 11:02 pm

mouthpieces, mouthpieces, mouthpieces...silver plated, stainless steel, titanium, lexan...thin walled, heavy/thick walled...funnel cups, bowl cups, hybrid funnel/bowl cups...small cup diameters, medium cup diameters, large cup diameters... wide rims, medium rims, narrow rims, sharp rims, rounded rims, flat rims...one piece mpcs, screw-rims mpcs...deep cups, medium depth cups, shallow cups...normal throat tapers, reverse throat tapers...large backbores, medium backbores, small backbores.............................................

Dave Detwiler · Post by **Dave Detwiler** » Fri Mar 04, 2011 7:44 am

I'm particularly enjoying the numerous "Play Along" CD resources for tuba that are out there now - esp those from Patrick Sheridan, as well as the Canadian Brass.

Makes practicing a lot more fun!

swillafew · Post by **swillafew** » Sat Mar 05, 2011 12:28 am

I started playing 40 years ago. I got much older since then.

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:14 am

windshieldbug wrote:Don't complain. You missed Disco. You should pay US for having to live through it!

What do we want??

Reparations!!

When do we want them??

NOW!!

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Wed Jun 14, 2017 11:56 am

EP's entrails might be at Blokeplace in the attic with the bent tubas but Bloke isn't talking.

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:01 pm

KiltieTuba wrote:They make tubas out of more than brass alloys...
Carbon Fiber
Plastic
Fiberglass
Wood (Roger Bobo's)

Aren't plastic souzies and the Martin plastic tubas at least forty years old?

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Wed Jun 14, 2017 12:03 pm

Stryk wrote:
Dave Detwiler wrote:I'm particularly enjoying the numerous "Play Along" CD
What's a CD????

It's what we had before mp3s. Which have been declared obsolete:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2 ... lare-dead/" target="_blank

roweenie · Post by **roweenie** » Wed Jun 14, 2017 4:11 pm

the elephant wrote:Enco changed its name to Exxon. Beyond that I haven't noticed much. Of course, I've been pretty busy…

Up here they were called "Esso".

https://youtu.be/4lZkX01wFbE" target="_blank

Highpitch · Post by **Highpitch** » Wed Jun 14, 2017 6:58 pm

ESSO was pretty clever.

S...O... for Standard Oil.

DDG

roweenie · Post by **roweenie** » Wed Jun 14, 2017 8:16 pm

Highpitch wrote:ESSO was pretty clever.

S...O... for Standard Oil.

DDG

Yes - I believe there was a trademark issue standing in the way of "Esso" being used across the entire U.S.

bort · Post by **bort** » Thu Jun 15, 2017 12:05 am

Rotax

pjv · Post by **pjv** » Sun Jun 18, 2017 11:47 am

After six years and numerous TubeNet posts I would imagine that the OP is up to date.

47 years; 1970.

In 1970 If you wanted to play a top-of-the-line sousaphone you might have purchased a brand new Conn 14K.
In 2017 If you want to play a top-of-the-line sousaphone you might try purchasing a Conn 14K from 1970.

Isn't nice to know that some things never change?

Rivercity Tuba · Post by **Rivercity Tuba** » Mon Jun 19, 2017 1:26 am

bloke wrote:more general comment relating to the title of the thread:
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...and don't fool yourself about this, either:
Management, consistently (from the $3K job to the extremely rare $175K job), views talent as "the help".

https://www.phantombrass.com/single-pos ... am-Is-Dead

Truer words have never been spoken, at least in my first hand experience

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