You are not the only victim of the mouthpiece craze!

[imperialbari]

http://youtu.be/FmT0RjRNqgs

[Three Valves]

Didn't anyone suggest he shave the 'stache??

[Tubajug]

Yeah Wade, that last line was the best.

That video of Hitler wanting to be concertmaster was probably one of the funniest of these parodies I've seen. Most of the other videos of this scene just drop f-bombs trying to be funny. Doesn't work for me...

[windshieldbug]

Perhaps he was just scheming to get rid of them by putting them on rockets to London... trying to see if he could get BBBer's to try them and see if he could mess with THEIR heads...

[ghmerrill]

Yeah, I get distracted if I listen to these while looking at them. So I turn the sound off.

In a similar vein, have you ever seen "Sixteen Chorales by J. S. Bach" compiled and arranged by Mayhew Lake (Schirmer)? The English versions of the titles are hilarious: "Ach wie flüchtig" -> "O how cheating" (Cheating? Fleeting? Close enough); "Es ist genug; so nimm, Herr, meinen Geist" -> "O God, my Life, in mercy shine on me"; "Auf meinen lieben Gott" -> "O whither shall I flee"; "Erhalt uns in der Wahrheit" -> "Thy Truth, which never varies"; etc.

We use this for band warm-ups. Worth having just for the giggles. I think each translation has some fundamental flaw in it.

[iiipopes]

My favorite line, "Don't worry. Maybe he'll switch to the jazz chair instead and play a 3C."

When I still played some trumpet in high school, the highest I ever got was a single time at summer band camp jazz band concert at the end of a piece in concert F (G for trumpet) I did get the 4th ledger line G at the last chord at the end. Once. In spite of all the practicing in the world, I could never do it again.

Then in college I did exactly that - play the jazz chair - for a semester until my Dad's trumpet was stolen and I stopped switching between horns and settled on tuba, having first played sousaphone as a freshman in high school marching band.

For some reason, I had taken my mouthpiece out of my case before Dad's trumpet was stolen, maybe trying a different mouthpiece for jazz band instead of concert band. So I actually still have my Bach 3C my Mom purchased for me in high school in the late '70's.

"The final solution" of course is to switch to tuba.

[Heavy_Metal]

I do not generally think these memes built off this footage are very funny or clever. Perhaps it is because I know enough German to know most of what he is saying. I dislike it when the subtitles deviate from what is actually being spoken, so this is even more difficult for me to enjoy....

For those who don't communicate in deutscher Sprache, here are the real subtitles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIBeyaF ... e=youtu.be" target="_blank"

[iiipopes]

I do not generally think these memes built off this footage are very funny or clever. Perhaps it is because I know enough German to know most of what he is saying. I dislike it when the subtitles deviate from what is actually being spoken, so this is even more difficult for me to enjoy. However, that last line about eBay and CraigsList was pretty funny....

Sometimes, satire is the only way to deal with horror. It gives perspective. It drives home the true depravity of the situation in a way that can be endured and learned from by juxtaposing absurdity. Everyone here is conscientious about the horror of WWII. All of us play for the various national holidays and other regional and local observances, commemorations and honoraria, in one way or another. But the constant diet we get of it on the news and all of the cable channels, with their saturation of "documentaries," for example, especially on the respective anniversaries of dates of major consequence, can be too much. Thank you for letting us take a break from the seriousness of it all.