100----wow!
Posted: Sun Oct 16, 2011 10:21 pm
It's not every day that a guy makes 100 years of age and can still play a tuba---congrats LJV! Way to go, old fellow. 
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Re: 100----wow!
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 11:08 am
And another Wow! I see that, at 100, it takes two days to properly celebrate the 100th birthday. Way to go, party on!
Re: 100----wow!
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 3:54 pm
We have a 94 year old Bb player in our band he has been a member since 1931 still going strong does not march any more but has just bought a new tuba so has great faith in continuing
Re: 100----wow!
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 6:30 pm
Excellent. We have a 96 year old string base player in our band
in Naples, FL. who comes out to gigs and does a solo too.
in Naples, FL. who comes out to gigs and does a solo too.
Re: 100----wow!
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:58 am
Absolutely great to hear this. That is once again an evidence that tuba playing is good for the health! Mother is only 85, but she is still plays her old Boosey Solbron a lot.sousaphone68 wrote:We have a 94 year old Bb player in our band he has been a member since 1931 still going strong does not march any more but has just bought a new tuba so has great faith in continuing
Re: 100----wow!
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 5:58 am
Duplicate message?!
Re: 100----wow!
Posted: Sat Oct 22, 2011 8:33 am
Although the band are called St James and have always rehearsed within a stones throw of St James Gate Brewery the home of Guinness the roots of the band are from a temperance band formed in 1739 which always makes me smile when I remember the over night sessions while on tour.
John no longer partakes of a pint but I will make him a cup of tea on Tubenets behalf.
While he now has difficulty reading the parts he has played some of them so long that he can play most of the marches and overtures from memory. He still has an awesome tone and when the humour takes him he can still soar above the rest of the section in projection. Those pieces that he does not know he enlarges on a copier and using his 80 odd years of experience fee plays suitable parts and remains tacet when he can't.
Despite being awarded life membership many years ago insists on paying his band dues.
He is an inspiration and I am glad that I have been playing in his section since 1985.
His favoured instrument of late has been a front action 3 valve Regent Calvary Bass converted from high pitch.
I will ask his permission to post a photo of him and his bass
John no longer partakes of a pint but I will make him a cup of tea on Tubenets behalf.
While he now has difficulty reading the parts he has played some of them so long that he can play most of the marches and overtures from memory. He still has an awesome tone and when the humour takes him he can still soar above the rest of the section in projection. Those pieces that he does not know he enlarges on a copier and using his 80 odd years of experience fee plays suitable parts and remains tacet when he can't.
Despite being awarded life membership many years ago insists on paying his band dues.
He is an inspiration and I am glad that I have been playing in his section since 1985.
His favoured instrument of late has been a front action 3 valve Regent Calvary Bass converted from high pitch.
I will ask his permission to post a photo of him and his bass