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I have been around marching bands a long time, but this is the first time I have seen these. How the heck do you keep them on the sousaphone bell? Wouldn't they scratch the finish? Would they do more harm than good? Not to mention they look rediculous...

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They go inside of the horn, probably about as far as you can reach down inside (my guess would be a 4-6" diamater for these things). Anything that gets thrown into the bell would then get caught before getting stuck down inside of the tuba.

I remember having one of these on my horn in middle school. It worked great at keeping things out. Too bad it also kept the shoe IN the horn that some kid had put in it probably year before. I'm not sure which is worse, that it was there, or that I didnt know the difference playing wise. Makes me wonder how many notes i actually played.

I got a matchbox car stuck in my sousaphone in high school.


I marched half the football season with it in because I was to scared to tell the band director.


It later rolled out of the bell after a rain storm we marched.

A couple of weekends ago my wife's family was over with gobs of small children. I caught one of the little rats using my King recording bass for a nerf basketball hoop!

We used them over 25 years ago when I was in the Army band in Berlin for Fasching parades in Fulda. Onlookers loved to give the tuba players gifts in the bell. The only problem was that we got some things (dolls, toy cars, loaves of bread, champagne bottles) stuck in there! These made it so they didn't get past the neck of the bell. I didn't notice anything stuffy but we only used the screens when we needed to!

And here I thought it was to keep the sousaphone players from escaping through the bells...

windshieldbug wrote:And here I thought it was to keep the sousaphone players from escaping through the bells...

"Got 'em by the bells", eh?

Kevin Hendrick wrote:

windshieldbug wrote:And here I thought it was to keep the sousaphone players from escaping through the bells...

"Got 'em by the bells", eh?

Bunch of Ding-a-lings...

bloke wrote:These posts should be more effectively screened.

No need to get all wired up about it.

Now if they only made these for my computer screen, I could be protected from all the stuff lobbed at me from the 'Net...

windshieldbug wrote:Now if they only made these for my computer screen, I could be protected from all the stuff lobbed at me from the 'Net...

"Strained spam", anyone? (sounds like a real mesh to me)

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Bandmaster wrote:Are these for real????

Well, you have to admit, when you read the thread title, you might get another impression of what you'll find being discussed...

Check out this link (related to the subject at hand); you can't make this stuff up!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12409277/

Ma-a-an! They promised me they'd block out my face when they took those pictures!