Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
"You should have taken up the piccolo" (if I had a nickel for every time I've heard that, I'd have a LOT of nickels....)
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
"How much does that thing weigh?" ( less often "Is that a tuba or are you just happy to see me" )
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
The one we used to get at the old Yankee Stadium (playing with the "Yankee Doodlers") was "hey - you guys play music?" As though someone would lug around a sousaphone for "fun"...
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
I was walking down a street to go meet up with some people with a sousaphone, and on the way some guy started honking at me and told me to go back to mexico...
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
Is that a trumpet?
No.
Trombone?
No.
Tuba?
Yes... let's go with that!
No.
Trombone?
No.
Tuba?
Yes... let's go with that!
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
One night after a late gig, the following scene unfolded behind me while walking down Osborne Street in Winnipeg with my horn on my shoulder...
Random drunk: "HEY TUBA!! TUUUBAAAA!!!!"
Unknown bystander: "It's a sousaphone ***hole! Get it right!!"
Me (in my head as I keep walking): "Thank you kind stranger!"
Random drunk: "HEY TUBA!! TUUUBAAAA!!!!"
Unknown bystander: "It's a sousaphone ***hole! Get it right!!"
Me (in my head as I keep walking): "Thank you kind stranger!"
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
From several flute, clarinet, etc. players over the last year:
"That must be so EASY to march with, you don't even to have to hold it up!"
"That must be so EASY to march with, you don't even to have to hold it up!"
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
That's a semi-standard greeting among tuba players around herelost wrote:"Tuuuuuuuuba"
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
Well how about equine opinon? Walking back from a gig on the Customs House steps in Charleston SC a cart horse pulling a tourist wagon down the street the other way DID NOT LIKE my sousaphone, throwing his head up to watch me intently. I turned around and went the other way, figuring he'd be even more unhappy if the scary thing sidled in behind him.
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
"That thing's a joke waiting to happen- a guy with a tuba walks into a bar... "
(Oh, I WILL... later!)
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
Actual dialog I have had:
"What IS that?"
"A sousaphone."
"A what?"
"Same as a tuba."
"Huh?"
"[Sigh] It does the same thing: low notes in a concert band: boom, boom, boom, boom. You hold a tuba. You wear a sousaphone."
"Oh?"
"You know - the guy on the football field at half-time who 'dots the I' in Ohio?"
"Oh, YEAH! Now I get it...."
(I then repair to a second beer)
"What IS that?"
"A sousaphone."
"A what?"
"Same as a tuba."
"Huh?"
"[Sigh] It does the same thing: low notes in a concert band: boom, boom, boom, boom. You hold a tuba. You wear a sousaphone."
"Oh?"
"You know - the guy on the football field at half-time who 'dots the I' in Ohio?"
"Oh, YEAH! Now I get it...."
(I then repair to a second beer)
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
Not when I was holding a sousaphone... but related.
(On a bandstand having just been introduced 'on tuba'.. playing my 5/4)
Guest: That's not a tuba
Me:...yes it is?
Guest: I've been to a lot of football games and that ain't like no tuba I ever seen
Me: I assure you, this is a tuba, just not one for marching.
Guest: no Sir, THAT'S A BASSOON!
(On a bandstand having just been introduced 'on tuba'.. playing my 5/4)
Guest: That's not a tuba
Me:...yes it is?
Guest: I've been to a lot of football games and that ain't like no tuba I ever seen
Me: I assure you, this is a tuba, just not one for marching.
Guest: no Sir, THAT'S A BASSOON!
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
"Best thing I have seen all year!" (as I was departing the Seattle Link lightrail a few weeks ago.)
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
Intonation any good?
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Re: Things to say when you see a sousaphone...
Walking away from a short Dixieland gig at a church. A very wide-eyed boy said "Oh, that is a very big trumpet"
And at least once during the Creswell 4th of July parade "Hey, it's Deputy Tuba!!!"
And at least once during the Creswell 4th of July parade "Hey, it's Deputy Tuba!!!"
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