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Which do you prefer?

"How many fingers am I holding up?"..."two"..."What is your name?"..."BAT-man"

Sousie

I'd vote for tubist. But I also like Tuber.

In Portuguese Tuba = Tuba, Tubist = Tubista, There is nothing like "tubaist" in portuguese, so even in english it sounds strange to me.

Some instruments we call the player (instrumentist) the name of the instrument: "the Euphonium of our band has nice embouchure", "the Clarinet is in vacations in Madeira"...

In fact, in portuguese this can aply (apply? cant spell it...) to any instrument player... is it the same in english?

Tuba player.

Rick "whose wife is a banjist" Denney

"Tubist or not tubist" -- this is a question?

Whether it be nobler of the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous BAT-dom

Anterux wrote:In fact, in portuguese this can aply (apply? cant spell it...) to any instrument player... is it the same in english?

Hmmm, this could get interesting. Does Portugese have a word for "blatweasel"?

Anterux wrote: Tubist = Tubista ...
Some instruments we call the player (instrumentist) the name of the instrument... is it the same in english?

First of all, I LOVE "Tubista". I come from Texas where I hear a lot of Spanish, so that's what it brings to mind more than Portuguese, but I'm using that from now on.

As to your question about English, yes the name of the instrument can be used in the third person ("Give this to the second trumpet", or "Somebody tell the trombones to shut up"), but you'd never say "I am a tuba" or "are you the tuba?"

Until I heard "tubista" (I really like that!) I generally wouldn't say "I am a" anything, but rather "I play the tuba". Like Rick, I definitely prefer "tuba player" to "tubist" (sounds like a lifestyle choice) or tubaist (requiring an unnecessary glottal stop). I also kind of like Tuba Spieler.
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Joe Baker, el Tubista Magnifico!

Hmmm, this could get interesting. Does Portugese have a word for "blatweasel"?

I cant think of anything for blatweasel...

As to your question about English, yes the name of the instrument can be used in the third person ("Give this to the second trumpet", or "Somebody tell the trombones to shut up"), but you'd never say "I am a tuba" or "are you the tuba?"

In portuguese it's the same.

The names of instruments in portuguese are very similar to english: Clarinete, trompete, trombone, tuba, flauta, oboé, violino, viola, violoncelo, contrabaixo, piano, arpa, etc etc.

but there are some peculiar names: Bombardino = Euphonium, Fagote = Bassoon, Requinta = Piccolo Clarinet in Eb, Trompa = French Horn, etc = etc...

How about fart hornist?

tubatooter1940 wrote:How about fart hornist?

Maybe not!

Fortissimosca wrote: ...
3. Tubista (I was in the part of U.S. history and we learned about the Sandistas in central America, so that's what I think of when I hear that)
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OK, now that makes me feel old. You were learning about the Sandanistas in history class. I remember hearing about them on the evening news. Similar to remembering hearing about battles in Vietnam on TV every evening after school, while my children learned about it in history class.

For some reason, this thread reminds me of something I heard John Fletcher say (on a recorded masterclass - I wasn't there in person). Speaking of tuba players (my preferred term, incidentally) who may take themselves too seriously, he urged us to remember that "all you're doing is going phhhhhht into a tube - and nobody asked you to do it!"

cktuba wrote:"all right... all right you've killed the rabbit already."

Those wabbits were taking a beating in the Elephant Room at the army conference. For many, artillery gunner would have been more appropriate than tuba player.

Rick "who particularly likes blatweasel" Denney

How about "MUSICIAN"?

BAT-WOMAN.

LOTP wrote:How about "MUSICIAN"?

That would leave out too many of us.

Rick "preferring a big tent full of noise" Denney

Fat guy with pimples.

In the UK it;s Tuba Player or Bass Player *Brass band*. Most people look at you strangely if you say that you are a tubist!

Fortissimosca wrote:Didnt get much of a response for it before, so here it is again:

Tubateer!

I mean, with such small sections in larger ensembles we could say "all for one, one for all" right?

Why???? Because we like you......

It is cute though....

Maybe we could get Britney Spears in on the action......

ken k