Now in Color!

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:53 am

the elephant wrote:Wow . . . drooooool . . . the guys at the "big audition" will know that I'm one serious dude when I whip that blue one out and start cranking some Wagner on it as loudly as I can . . .

If I were ever to go to a "big audition," I would be very disturbed if anyone were to "whip out" something. I would especially be disturbed if it were blue.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:41 pm

I would like a purple one. Do they come in purple?

JB · Post by JB » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:45 pm

Yeah, lots of color ideas are "cool," but what about

GLOW IN THE DARK!!!!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Feb 07, 2006 9:50 pm

JB wrote:what about GLOW IN THE DARK

You don't play on stage in the dark, but fluorescent would be cool!

Jonathan Cruz · Post by **Jonathan Cruz** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 2:18 pm

how embarassing! That's most likely me playing that green monster there. Yeah, they are green Kellys, but the horns are all Kanstuls. They are regular Kanstuls sprayed down with coats of green aircraft paint.

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:10 pm

Opaque paint should be cheaper to apply than lacquer, because you don't have to buff to a mirror finish first.

But it will be thicker and heavier than lacquer because of the pigment.

Most colored lacquer is not opaque at all, but just has a little pigment in it and still let the polished brass shine through.

Rick "who has some Krylon in the garage..." Denney

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:00 pm

I now need a blue tuba

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:58 pm

windshieldbug wrote:Paisley would be way cool!

Aye, but can ye do one up in a Royal Stewart tartan, laddie?

windshieldbug wrote:
JB wrote:what about GLOW IN THE DARK
You don't play on stage in the dark, but fluorescent would be cool!

Shirley, you jest ... sorry ... surely you jest! I'm in the dark most of the time ...

prototypedenNIS wrote:I now need a blue tuba

"You can play anything, but stay off o' my blue suede tuba"?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:33 pm

Rug's-N-Relics used to have a blue Besson Eb comp redone in blue. He sold it to a Japanese enthusiast for $$$$. I was able to run off a copy of the picture before he apparently deleted it from his website.

Hey - bring it back! It looked sooooooo cool with the blue lacquer and gold lacquer trim: slides, finger buttons, bow guard, etc.!!!!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 7:38 pm

the elephant wrote:Those green suits would constitute "crappy working conditions" in my book.

Maybe not the suits, but at least the boots with all that flashing!

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:13 pm

Daryl Fletcher wrote: Hey, some of us really miss the 80's.

For some of us, the 80s are still in the future.

prototypedenNIS · Post by **prototypedenNIS** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 7:52 pm

I would like to say, I like how they're coloured. It kinda has a 50's retro blue look to it, like what you'd find on a Bel Air or something. Would look even better with a Wedding white Kelly mouthpiece in it.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Feb 10, 2006 10:14 am

Better Living Through Chemistry

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 1:58 pm

Another TubeNet member posted the link to the blue Besson tuba in the cool tubas thread :

http://www.rugs-n-relics.com/brass-phil ... -Blue.html

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:09 pm

You think those outfits are bad, this saloon owner made us wear Confederate Cavalry uniforms and play straight corn country music. I was the band leader so I got to be a colonel.
This was in the 70's so the second night we wore the uniforms, The bass player cut his sleeves off up to his shoulders and shredded the gray pants with the yellow stripe from hips to ankles. I sewed a huge yellow Superman "S" on the chest of mine and a Tweety Bird emblem on the right arm up high. We started playing mostly rock with the occasional country ballad. He made so much money he didn't fire us. We made so much money he made us pay for the darn uniforms.

XtremeEuph · Post by **XtremeEuph** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:12 pm

different "paint" lol and kinda corny but at least it matches my school colours.'

EDIT: my bad, forgot i was colour blind and its blue not purple, my school colours are purple and gold