* A pinhole in a trumpet makes the instrument unplayable. A bullet hole in a tuba is rarely noticed.
My trumpet (in it's case) fell out of the back of the van and a split second later, the van wheel rolled over it. The bell was flatter than a bop note. We were on the road in a tiny town so we opened up the bell with a tire iron and made lots of flat trumpet jokes on the bandstand that night. The old tooter didn't sound any different to me standing behind it.
The next day we rolled into Montgomery where I found another Olds Ambassador at the music store that served all the high schools.
Olds Ambassador trumpets are cheap and kinda hard to play but they sound great and, with that big bore, have no upper limit to volume. The harder you honk, the more you get out of it.
You know, I could change this thread around (lemme try):
Movie quotes about tubas and tuba players!
Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) wrote:About my playing the tuba. Seems like a lot of fuss has been made about that. If a man's crazy just 'cause he plays the tuba, then somebody better look into it, 'cause there are a lot of tuba players running around loose. Of course, I don't see any harm in it. I play mine whenever I want to concentrate. That may sound funny to some people - but everybody does something silly when they're thinking. For instance, the Judge here is an O-filler ...
Actually, he didn't write it, he said it in the 1936 Frank Capra film!
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You only have one chance to make a first impression. Don't blow it.
Tuba, or not tuba, that is the question: whether 'tis nobler in the minds of men to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous blats, blurts and honks, or by opposing, end them with a mighty blast -- aye, there's the rub!
