horns in the overhead of Lufstahnsa

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:59 am

DaTubaKid is wise and has humour. Valuable traits!

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre

bigwillystyle · Post by **bigwillystyle** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 5:35 pm

If we're still talking about it

, it seems that the most useful reply in this thread was the first one. These big planes have storage closets where the crew store luggage and personal effects. In your situation I would make some friends with the flight or gate attendants and ask about any special place they can store your prized possessions.

Now that I think of it, I was recently on a Lufthansa flight with about half an orchestra. They were allowed to put their instruments almost anywhere...on the floor, in their laps. Of course these were violins, etc. I can't remember what horns you said you have. In my experience Lufthansa has always been able to accommodate.

Refer to the post by clagar777.

UDELBR · Post by **UDELBR** » Sat Jul 15, 2006 6:36 pm

And assurances that the poor kid's career was over were more than a little overdramatic, eh? Not the first time Klaus has blown a fuse over an imagined offense (IP tracing on the old board, etc).

oldbandnerd · Post by **oldbandnerd** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 5:08 pm

blah,blah,blah ......

Pointy headed Poindexters ......

I go out of town for the weekend and look what happens .

Dang !!!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 7:17 pm

Oric wrote:*passes out kittens so everyone will calm down*

HEY! WAIT A MINUTE! THERE'S A MISSPELLING IN MY KITTEN!

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 8:15 pm

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Sun Jul 16, 2006 9:01 pm

windshieldbug wrote:
Oric wrote:*passes out kittens so everyone will calm down*
HEY! WAIT A MINUTE! THERE'S A MISSPELLING IN MY KITTEN!

snort...chortle...tee hee hee...
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 6:39 am

Boanerges may be the one forgiving my nitpicking.

Es ist die Thomasschule:

http://www.leipzig-online.de/thomanerch ... chool.html

Even I thought it was the Thomaner Schule. Thomaner means "being a derivative of Thomas". The cathedral of Leipzig is the Thomaskirche (Church of St. Thomas).

Making this orchestra-, if not exactly tuba-, relevant: The Gewandhaus orchestra of Leipzig is a huge entity of about 180 players, if my memory does not fail upon me.

The orchestra has to be able to serve as a full scale-symphony, an opera-/ballet-orchestra, and a Bach-size church orchestra (in the St. Thomas) at the same time. The players are rotated between the various functions.

A lot of dirt may be said about the GDR, even truthfully so. But as a part of the official policy about keeping the population calm, the 16 million GDR-inhabitants could enjoy the musical services of 95 orchestras. An orchestra-to-population frequency hardly found anywhere else in the modern world. The united Germany could not bear that financial burden, so a lot of orchestras were discontinued.

The infrastructure of the GDR was rotten. All of its Plattenbau, huge housing quarters made out of pre-made concrete plates, was grossly overheated. The tenants could not regulate the room temperature by other means than opening their windows. All industrial processes were inefficient.

The only ones benefiting from that were those buying high-end instruments from the B&S state conglomerate at dumped prices. Was there, did that in several cases, even if my samples are smaller than the fine F-tuba owned by Joe Sellmansberger.

Once more a rant from an elderly European.

Did a similar rant on pre-WWII recording techniques on one of the horn lists a few hours ago. Was publicly thanked by a US high-school senior, who was eager to drain all historical sources of days bygone. He even could spell. Not all Americans are brain-dead cowboys, but the small minority encompassed in that category often does a brilliant work of promoting themselves.

The eternally sad fact is, that you encounter these cowboys so much more often in low brass forums than on any other of the several music related list, which I happen to follow. And most of â€œmyâ€

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:42 pm

Boanerges wrote:livelyhood

It's "livelihood".

Rick "who hopes that announcing his tongue in cheek isn't necessary" Denney

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:50 pm

Rick Denney wrote:Rick "who hopes that announcing his tongue in cheek isn't necessary" Denney

Hey, you piker! You, of all people, should know your name is spelled "RhÃ®queâ„¢"! I don't want to have to tell you again!

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:08 pm

windshieldbug wrote:
Rick Denney wrote:Rick "who hopes that announcing his tongue in cheek isn't necessary" Denney
Hey, you piker! You, of all people, should know your name is spelled "RhÃ®queâ„¢"! I don't want to have to tell you again!

No, it's Reek. Sheesh.

Reek "who dropped all the diacritical marks ages ago" Denney

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:21 pm

Boanerges wrote:Mr. Denny,

Thanx for pointing out my grievous spelling errors - I have a long way to go before I can match your magisterial usage of the English language.

Magisterial...I like that. It has a nice mixture of pomposity and pedantry that I think fits particularly well.

Rick "impressed by how well Boanerges gets into the swing of things" Denney

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 2:22 pm

Boanerges wrote:And here I thought it was *piquer* - A *piker* is a footsoldier with a pike, which he uses to impale someone with

And here, I thought they weren't footsoldiers, but just Impala drivers...

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 5:11 pm

Boanerges wrote:windshieldbug,

*Impala drivers* - now I really HAVE heard everything

Well "operators" seemed to me to give them too much credit

Brassdad · Post by **Brassdad** » Mon Jul 17, 2006 7:46 pm

Boanerges wrote:What, then, is the *operative* question of the "operators"?

Let's just hope they are smooooooooooth operators.

bassax · Post by **bassax** » Tue Jul 18, 2006 4:04 am

I want so share my experiences with Lufthansa. About 10 years ago I took a trip from England to Germany with a band.

I was not allowed to take my baritone sax on the plane, although it had a pretty small case. I had to check it in with the luggage. I tried my very best to tell the personnel at the airport to be VERY careful with it since it is fragile. I had bubble wrap in the case and a strap around it so it would not be opened by accident.

When we arrived in Germany I was shocked when I picked up the case. It was completely destroyed, sadly my sax too. Lufthansa would not help me in any way, according to them I only had myself to blame since I checked in a fragile item. If I filled in all the necessary papers I MIGHT get a small sum (around $70) from them, I didn't bother...

I was lucky to be able to borrow a sax for the rest of the tour. The band also had good insurance so when I got back I could have the sax repaired and also got a new case.

Since then I have avoided to travel with Lufthansa and I will never again trust one of my instrument in the hands of them.