Tuba accidents

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 8:52 am

The topic of this thread got me to thinking--a tuba accident. Isn't that how we end up with another trumpet? Just one of those weird, random thoughts....

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 7:30 pm

I wonder why the kid is smiling...

Why is the tuba smelly?

kegmcnabb · Post by **kegmcnabb** » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:16 pm

SOTStuba wrote:I heard of a guy who had just bought a brand new st. pete and got a gig bag for convienence sake...well one day he was getting ready for school and was loading his stuff into his truck...he sat his horn down behind it for some reason and went back inside to grab something else...well he came back out jumped in the truck and ran over his brand new horn...just hearing that made me want to cry

I know a girl who did the same thing with her tenor sax, but the kicker was that she didn't realize it was her sax. She thought she had backed over her dog and sat in her car for an hour crying until someone would look. She just couldn't bring herself to do it.

GC · Post by GC » Wed Apr 26, 2006 9:49 pm

Slightly O/T, about 10 years ago I backed over an Ibanez bass guitar in its case with a Chevy Lumina and even stopped for a couple of seconds with the rear wheels on top of the case. The case was squashed a bit, and chunks of ABS plastic were broken off the bottom. Everything inside the case was in perfect shape. Even my delicate tuner was untouched. The case really did its job. I still have both the case and the bass, and they still work just fine.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 12:06 am

Not a tuba, but I have a single french horn that a school bus ran over. A friend gave it to me, thinking I could use the valves for something... only the bell was flattened. I gave it one look and thought, "How does one mess with art?". Yes, it came in a case to match.

And when another friend, principal horn of the Philidelphia Orchestra, played it, you know, it still didn't sound half bad...

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 8:30 am

My Olds Ambassador Cornet in it's hard case took a tumble out of the band trailer and got run over by a semi-truck. The bell was flattened but the rest of the horn relatively undamaged.
I had to play it for a few days until I found another horn.I used a long screwdriver to open up the bell. It didn't sound that much different than before the tragedy. The guys in the band tried to get me to play it as it was to outdo Dizzy Gillespie. I felt my image would suffer.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:04 am

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Thu Apr 27, 2006 10:44 am

OUCH!

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