The problem with you tuba players...

[WilliamVance]

Hahaha! I'll have to try and integrate some of those skills next week in brass quintet...

[Kevin Hendrick]

Quite a workout! Looks like he might still benefit from a little more exorcise ...

[UDELBR]

http://youtu.be/5OyWR99t6i0

[MikeMason]

Hilarious

[tbn.al]

If I was going to have to lug a Sousa around and never play it I would want the only fiberglass horn too.

[arminhachmer]

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Learn from THIS working bass player:

haha, very funny Bloke... I sure am glad the 96 year old base player who visits with our Florida band for special gigs does not move like that. He does bring his own amp however!

[DHMTuba]

Groan . . . A dirty little secret of the music biz is that people resort to gimmicks in place of talent, and a surprising number of them get lots of work.
One of the leaders I work for would love for me to "play" like that. I hope he never sees the video, I'm having a hard enough time keeping him at bay as it is . . .

[ppalan]

Interesting. I tried this very thing last week during "The Ride" at a rehearsal. The conductor was...not amused...

[hbcrandy]

The guy also plays mirror-image bass with his right hand on the neck/finger board.

[boles4u]

The guy also plays mirror-image bass with his right hand on the neck/finger board.

In some of these old movies the image is flipped.

[Mark E. Chachich]

You can tell that the image is flipped by looking at the marimba in the background.

Mark

[Art Hovey]

Not just the bass. The Marimbas are all left-handed too. Obviously the whole thing was filmed on an alien planet and the recording was sent to us through a twisted space-warp.

[David Richoux]

It is also difficult (but maybe not impossible) to do "Big Noise from Winnetka" properly on the tuba...

[Radar]

This guy is very flamboyant to say the least, but my guess is he hasnt' worked since the 1950s!! I'm not sure this would go over well with todays discerning audiences.

[sticky_valve]

It is also difficult (but maybe not impossible) to do "Big Noise from Winnetka" properly on the tuba...

I find this idea interesting.

1. Can it be done on tuba?
2. Has it been done on tuba.... if so anyone got any links to any vidoe clips / audio files?
3. Sheet music, anyone know where to look?

Cheers.

[David Richoux]

It is also difficult (but maybe not impossible) to do "Big Noise from Winnetka" properly on the tuba...

I find this idea interesting.

1. Can it be done on tuba?
2. Has it been done on tuba.... if so anyone got any links to any vidoe clips / audio files?
3. Sheet music, anyone know where to look?

Cheers.

First, you would need a nose whistle (and the skillz to play it and the tuba at the same time...)

[arminhachmer]

Quite a workout! Looks like he might still benefit from a little more exorcise ...

Kevin strikes again ! Can i have your autograph?

[Rotaryclub]

I always wondered what "bass slap technique" was-now I know

[dwerden]

As I understand it, the video is reversed because it was made for a special of player (kind of a juke-box thing). In modern-day terms, it's like the way video/computer projects can reverse the image so the can work whether the projector is positioned in front of the screen or behind it.

According to Image Archives: "This film is mirrored because original Soundie films were printed backwards so that they could appear correct when played in the Panoram machine (an early film jukebox)".
http://archive.org/details/SoundieF

[saktoons]

Because the film is reversed, I tried playing it backwards. It turns out that there is a subliminal message in there telling me to go and add another tuba to my collection. (I also heard something like "Paul is alive!", but I have no idea what that means.)