Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:16 am
Mutes? Monettes? 
Cimbassos....
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Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:21 am
Leather guards, pencil holders.
Cimbassos....
Cimbassos....
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:53 am
Beer
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:59 am
DMAs?
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 2:08 am
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 6:43 am
Smartphones
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:20 am
Trigger(s)
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 8:06 am
résumé paper?
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:07 am
Clothespins.
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:44 am
Beer.
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:49 am
LJV named a bunch of things, and I think for the most part it's true -- no one in front of the tuba (especially in the audience) notices or cares about these things.
Very few alterations really have a gigantic impact on the actual sound. It's all small stuff that makes it (or appears to make it) easier for a player to make a good sound with the smallest possible amount of effort.
Things like response, centering pitches, resonance of the horn, work required for intonation are not noticeable to people other than the player.
So I agree, it's all stuff that is specific to the player and what he/she wants out of his/her tuba.
Very few alterations really have a gigantic impact on the actual sound. It's all small stuff that makes it (or appears to make it) easier for a player to make a good sound with the smallest possible amount of effort.
Things like response, centering pitches, resonance of the horn, work required for intonation are not noticeable to people other than the player.
So I agree, it's all stuff that is specific to the player and what he/she wants out of his/her tuba.
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 11:50 am
Quarter-tone (or whatever) 6th valves on MW 2165 tubas. 
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:06 pm
+1!!!bort wrote:Quarter-tone (or whatever) 6th valves on MW 2165 tubas.
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:12 pm
I'm disappointed none of us has answered the question Bloke actually asked.bloke wrote: purchased by people because they play the tuba players
Dice? Cards? (Nah, the tuba players will have plenty of those.) A dirndl?
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:30 pm
But doesn't your 6th valve just make it easier for you to play in tune? I don't think it has anything to do with producing a sound... just an adjustment to pitch, other than slide push/pull or lipping it.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a neat contraption...
...but if you played before/after audio samples, the sound itself would be the same (although the experience for you behind the mouthpiece would be a little easier with the 6th valve).
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a neat contraption...
...but if you played before/after audio samples, the sound itself would be the same (although the experience for you behind the mouthpiece would be a little easier with the 6th valve).
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:37 pm
Lederhosen!
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:49 pm
- Ties, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers with depictions of, or the word "tuba"
- Multiple mouthpiece pouches/cases (including wooden display boxes)
- "special" lint-free cloth
- beer/cup holder that straps onto music stand (or onto the actual tuba, for style)
- books of etudes that are just transposed versions from other brass instruments
- Multiple mouthpiece pouches/cases (including wooden display boxes)
- "special" lint-free cloth
- beer/cup holder that straps onto music stand (or onto the actual tuba, for style)
- books of etudes that are just transposed versions from other brass instruments
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 12:58 pm
Attitudes.
Chuck
Chuck
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:19 pm
tuba player parking sign
Re: tuba gimmicks
Posted: Fri Apr 06, 2012 1:37 pm
Necktie with a tuba on it in living color in defiance of the "all black" dress code...