Are these for real????

Bandmaster · Post by **Bandmaster** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:37 am

I have been around marching bands a long time, but this is the first time I have seen these. How the heck do you keep them on the sousaphone bell? Wouldn't they scratch the finish? Would they do more harm than good? Not to mention they look rediculous...

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bort · Post by **bort** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 1:52 am

They go inside of the horn, probably about as far as you can reach down inside (my guess would be a 4-6" diamater for these things). Anything that gets thrown into the bell would then get caught before getting stuck down inside of the tuba.

Onebaplayer · Post by **Onebaplayer** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 3:20 am

I remember having one of these on my horn in middle school. It worked great at keeping things out. Too bad it also kept the shoe IN the horn that some kid had put in it probably year before. I'm not sure which is worse, that it was there, or that I didnt know the difference playing wise. Makes me wonder how many notes i actually played.

Michael Woods · Post by **Michael Woods** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 9:42 am

I got a matchbox car stuck in my sousaphone in high school.

I marched half the football season with it in because I was to scared to tell the band director.

It later rolled out of the bell after a rain storm we marched.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Sun Apr 16, 2006 10:39 am

A couple of weekends ago my wife's family was over with gobs of small children. I caught one of the little rats using my King recording bass for a nerf basketball hoop!

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:01 am

We used them over 25 years ago when I was in the Army band in Berlin for Fasching parades in Fulda. Onlookers loved to give the tuba players gifts in the bell. The only problem was that we got some things (dolls, toy cars, loaves of bread, champagne bottles) stuck in there! These made it so they didn't get past the neck of the bell. I didn't notice anything stuffy but we only used the screens when we needed to!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:03 pm

And here I thought it was to keep the sousaphone players from escaping through the bells...

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Tue Apr 18, 2006 8:37 pm

windshieldbug wrote:And here I thought it was to keep the sousaphone players from escaping through the bells...

"Got 'em by the bells", eh?

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 1:02 am

Kevin Hendrick wrote:
windshieldbug wrote:And here I thought it was to keep the sousaphone players from escaping through the bells...
"Got 'em by the bells", eh?

Bunch of Ding-a-lings...

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:09 am

bloke wrote:These posts should be more effectively screened.

No need to get all wired up about it.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:43 am

Now if they only made these for my computer screen, I could be protected from all the stuff lobbed at me from the 'Net...

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 7:55 pm

windshieldbug wrote:Now if they only made these for my computer screen, I could be protected from all the stuff lobbed at me from the 'Net...

"Strained spam", anyone? (sounds like a real mesh to me)

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:43 pm

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windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Wed Apr 19, 2006 9:46 pm

Bandmaster wrote:Are these for real????

Well, you have to admit, when you read the thread title, you might get another impression of what you'll find being discussed...

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:20 pm

Check out this link (related to the subject at hand); you can't make this stuff up!
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windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Fri Apr 21, 2006 12:25 pm

Ma-a-an! They promised me they'd block out my face when they took those pictures!

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