AlpenBrass-Tirol, nice tuba

[Ace]

I just ran across this site and liked it very much. Good tuba playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG9OudmF ... re=related

Ace

[Chuck Jackson]

Holy Crap!!!! Great music WITH good looking women HOLDING BEER KEGS. QUICK, someone post some pictures of food!!!! We have hit the TubeNet JACKPOT!!!!

Chuck"tickled"Jackson

[finnbogi]

Holy Crap!!!! Great music WITH good looking women HOLDING BEER KEGS. QUICK, someone post some pictures of food!!!! We have hit the TubeNet JACKPOT!!!!

Actually I would imagine that these are Obstler-kegs, which means hitting the TubeNet jackpot at a much higher velocity.

I find it interesting that among all the rotary baritones and trumpets, the tuba is (or at least looks like) a Besson E flat - which is certainly not typical for the area.

[b.williams]

Holy Crap!!!! Great music WITH good looking women HOLDING BEER KEGS. QUICK, someone post some pictures of food!!!! We have hit the TubeNet JACKPOT!!!!

Chuck"tickled"Jackson

There was a band ???

[Lingon]

Well, certainly good playing, and singing, etc however how autentisch is it really? The tuba might be English, or at least traditional English brass band style, there is one perinet trumpet, not Deutsche style that is, and the posaunen, nicht Deustshe style either. Then don't the girls look a bit Asiatisch? Sorry, nicht jackpot me thinks...

[Doc]

Piston tubas like that would certainly be the exception to the rule, however, even Ernst Mosch (now Ernst Hutter) and Sie Original Egerlaender Musikanten use a piston trumpet for the lead player.

If I went back to playing polka music, the American polka tradition is Conn 20J (and similar tubas). If I get specific to central and south Texas, bass guitar has been the trend for 40 years. If I played in a band that was German traditional, I'd like a big rotary BBb. If it were a Czech traditional band (like Moravanka or Blaskapelle Gloria), I might like a large F tuba. If I'm in a British style brass band, I might like an upright BBb or EEb. However, money being what it is, I will likely play what I have for whatever comes along. It is possible that this player is bucking tradition and simply playing on the tuba that works best for him (Tantamount to playing rotary BBb in an American orchestra - you KNOW that we just DON'T do that.)

[Neptune]

I wonder if it could be in Switzerland, rather than Austria? The British style EEb is used more there. Or otherwise the tuba player plays in a traditional British brass band otherwise. Looks like a Yamaha YEB-632 to me.

For those of you which like that sort of music with pretty girls (don't we all?), I would recommend this DVD by Blaskapelle Gloria
http://www.blaskapelle-gloria.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=86:admin&catid=41&Itemid=59

[Doc]

I wonder if it could be in Switzerland, rather than Austria?

Good observation. Of course, I was pleased simply to have good music accompanying the beverages and the beautiful setting.

[PMeuph]

I wonder if it could be in Switzerland, rather than Austria?

Not according to their webpage....

http://bsandra.webnode.com/kontakt/" target="_blank

Oberhofen and Pfaffenhofen are near Innsbruck...

[bort]

Actually I would imagine that these are Obstler-kegs, which means hitting the TubeNet jackpot at a much higher velocity.

I think that is an excellent description.

When I went to Tirol a few years ago, there were two "schnapps girls" on each side of the stage. Some Austrian traditions need to find their way over here ASAP.

Regarding this video... very nice, although it's annoying to me when live videos are accompanied by studio recordings. I'd much rather hear the live sound as well.

Also, I'm not sure if it's more or less traditional to use slide trombones, but it seems like a lot of similar videos use 4v rotary trombones.

[bort]

I kind of doubt that the Swiss would be playing/singing the national song of Tyrol (which is a province of Austria).

[Doc]

Either way, I like it!