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What is the proper way to wear a sousaphone?
Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 3:28 pm
by GhostlyBoy08
If anyone could provide pictures that would help me alot.
Re: What is the proper way to wear a sousaphone?
Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 3:58 pm
by Dan Schultz
GhostlyBoy08 wrote:If anyone could provide pictures that would help me alot.
I'll venture a guess that the search function would yield a fairly long thread along with a bunch of pictures.
Re: What is the proper way to wear a sousaphone?
Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 4:02 pm
by Dan Schultz
Stryk wrote:TubaTinker wrote:GhostlyBoy08 wrote:If anyone could provide pictures that would help me alot.
I'll venture a guess that the search function would yield a fairly long thread along with a bunch of pictures.
Dan - didn't you or Joe have some pictures showing the right and wrong ways to hold one?
Here is the link to a thread that explains a lot.
viewtopic.php?f=2&t=53557&hilit=sousaph ... ng#p457777
Re: What is the proper way to wear a sousaphone?
Posted: Thu May 08, 2014 6:10 pm
by Pat S
Wear it proudly!
Re: What is the proper way to wear a sousaphone?
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 6:30 am
by Ken Herrick
Interesting that Kiltie's statement doesn't match with his avatar.
Wear it so you are comfortable and play well..................................
Re: What is the proper way to wear a sousaphone?
Posted: Fri May 09, 2014 9:28 am
by bort
bloke wrote:a few general rules:
- front-to-back
- NOT side-to-side
- on your shoulder
- NOT on your neck
- gooseneck and bits approach your mouth from YOUR left and NOT from your right
Neck? From the right? Yow... some people are WAY off.
Question -- why don't Sousaphone manufacturers offer alignment markings in the bell? It always seemed to me that when people put the horn together, it's based on best guesses, and then distorting your body to make it work. Isn't there really a "correct place" for the bell to be aligned?