TubeNet

Been listening to some Chester Schmitz Boston recordings the last few days... its been quite a while for me. Holy crap!

I was having second thoughts about playing a (3 day/2 night) festival this weekend... as part of a brass trio... where my playing will be hyper-exposed... and there is no drummer... and all of us are underprepared (especially the trumpet player)... and the pay is "break even" after travel expenses...

But then I saw this...

The wise one sayeth GO thus henceforth I shall GO!

Ron Bishop had no problem being heard in a recent replay of a '67 radio broadcast of Shostakovich 10.

Which mouthpiece(s) to use today?

Is a Double Bass a large violin or a pair of fish?

The Jimmy Buffett song claims margaritas are the frozen concoction that helps a person hang on to life.

For those of us office denizens, I would respectfully beg to differ.

Coffee is the steaming concoction that helps us hang on to life.

It's after 8am here.

But the tuba don't mind.

I keep thinking I should really have a tenor tuba - with nice rotars and all pretty bright silver plate.

bloke wrote:

I saw what you did there...

Almost, 1pm so this is a post lunch thought....but I shaved my beard...now my low range sucks much less....and my whiskers don't stab my face and make me bleed sometimes when I play...but it takes me time shaving in the morning.....1st world tuba problems.

Ah! the vaguries of nomenclature.