A friend of mine posted this on our WAC Band Facebook page and I found it humorus...except that it may be true.
5 Bizarre Dark Sides to Modern Orchestras
http://www.cracked.com/article_19411_5- ... stras.html" target="_blank
Helen
Is This True for Tuba Players as Well?
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HGillespie
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Is This True for Tuba Players as Well?
Hobbiest - Conn 5J - Nice...easy playing horn
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TheHatTuba
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Depressing....
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windshieldbug
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... and those are just the GOOD things!
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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I must say though, that since I have been rummaging around TubeNet I have discovered some very remarkable women tuba players. Women tuba players, don't be shy, be loud and proud. Show us what you've got and let the music speak for itself.
Beginning again to be a tuba player.
1291 King Double B flat with detachable bell.
"The hills are alive, with the sound of (tuba) music."
1291 King Double B flat with detachable bell.
"The hills are alive, with the sound of (tuba) music."
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TheHatTuba
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And there is Ms. Jantsch with the Philly PhilharmonicRev Rob wrote:I must say though, that since I have been rummaging around TubeNet I have discovered some very remarkable women tuba players. Women tuba players, don't be shy, be loud and proud. Show us what you've got and let the music speak for itself.
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About the only occupation I detest more than lawyers and politicians are journalists. This particular writer just thinks he's real cute!
Dan Schultz
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http://www.thevillagetinker.com" target="_blank
Current 'stable'... Rudolf Meinl 5/4, Marzan (by Willson) euph, King 2341, Alphorn, and other strange stuff.
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Kevin Hendrick
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Some are columnists, others are calumnists:bloke wrote:Journalists, supposedly, write the truth. I refer to most of these as "columnists". ie, Their job is to fill columns with (regardless of how nonsensical) letters and spaces.TubaTinker wrote:About the only occupation I detest more than lawyers and politicians are journalists. This particular writer just thinks he's real cute!
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/calumny
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IT IS SATIRETubaTinker wrote:About the only occupation I detest more than lawyers and politicians are journalists. This particular writer just thinks he's real cute!