Mouthpiece?

TheChiefofStaph · Post by **TheChiefofStaph** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:44 pm

MW215588 wrote:Hey carol i know this is kind of off topic but i was wanted to know, what mouthpiece do you use for your pt-6. Thanks

You're right! That IS off-topic!

Toobist · Post by **Toobist** » Sat Nov 18, 2006 2:56 pm

Please use PMs for anything like that MW215588. However, I'm expecting that Ms. Jantsch has a full mailbox as of late and she may already have answered such a question more times than she'd like. I don't mean to answer for her, of course, but it's what I'd suspect.

You seem like a lovely person Carol, and I hope you're not overwhelmed with these inquiries. I can only imagine how many equipment questions you get and how often you have to find a polite way to suggest that they get back into the practice room and get to what matters.

All the best.

ahowle · Post by **ahowle** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 3:04 pm

MW215588 wrote:Hey carol i know this is kind of off topic but i was wanted to know, what mouthpiece do you use for your pt-6. Thanks

fail

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 4:00 pm

MW215588 wrote:Hey carol i know this is kind of off topic but i was wanted to know, what mouthpiece do you use for your pt-6. Thanks

That's kinda like writing Coke, and asking what the "secret formula" is... Take a lesson, and then ask.

Arkietuba · Post by **Arkietuba** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 7:05 pm

Could you guys give this guy a break...all everyone has to say to this guy on here is negative or is demeaning...the guy just wanted to know which mp she used b/c he has the same horn and he's trying to get a good idea what others use...if you actually knew the guy personally you'd know that he likes to ask a lot of questions. I go to school with him and since I'm the section leader he comes up to me for a lot of questions (well he did)...I really don't know how I play, I just do, I naturally double tounged and used vibrato and lots of stuff like that so I never learned it. Give the guy a break...

Steve Inman · Post by **Steve Inman** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 9:02 pm

harold wrote:
Arkietuba wrote:Could you guys give the guy a break...
The answer to that would be no.

Look at the hardware he is bragging about. Then, he asks a neophyte question about a mouthpiece in an open forum?

I say throw it at him with shovels.

"Mother F-in"
Not overly impressed with this either. What say you Doc?

Oooh, oooh! Can I try first? I'm assuming his mom plays an F tuba? It couldn't be an attempt at obscenity to make us think he's "oh so mature" ... surely.

Regarding the initial post, it was completely inappropriate. A PM would have been completely appropriate.

dopey · Post by **dopey** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:12 pm

So I think from now on to make people happy if you have a question merely pm whomever you think will have the answer, forget the forum...

On a serious note, this guy originaly posted this I believe in her audition post and I -think- it was pulled by a mod and made a standalone post? I may be wrong but I do know its no longer over there and its the exact same wording as he asked in the thread.

If you don't like the post, don't read it.. its not very hard to do.

.....Maybe im crazy but if I didn't want a post to waste space on this forum I wouldn't reply saying so thus raising it from the bottom to the top of the forum.....kinda pointless eh?

KevinMadden · Post by **KevinMadden** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 10:15 pm

Arkietuba wrote: I go to school with him and since I'm the section leader he comes up to me for a lot of questions (well he did)...I really don't know how I play, I just do, I naturally double tounged and used vibrato and lots of stuff like that so I never learned it. Give the guy a break...

let it be said that modesty is certainly a virtue. you had to have learned how to do that stuff. If you hear d arecording, then tried to imitate it, you learned it, taught it to yourself. you HAD to have heard or read somewhere that double tounging was "tu-Ku" and then tried to do that. you didn't come out of the womb holding a tuba.
one thing that irks me about you two.... so MW215588 has tons of money in horns, and you have been called a 'virtuoso' by Brian Bowman. why'd ya go to Arkansas? a school you've admitted yourself has produced any famous players? (and is relatively unknown in the tuba world) if you're both that good (and apparently fairly well-to-do) why not go to Indiana, Michigan, Eastman, Arizona..etc. etc...

(don't take that last question as being to mean-spirited, I'm actually quite urious at this point)

djwesp · Post by **djwesp** » Mon Nov 20, 2006 11:56 pm

KevinMadden wrote:one thing that irks me about you two.... so MW215588 has tons of money in horns, and you have been called a 'virtuoso' by Brian Bowman. why'd ya go to Arkansas? a school you've admitted yourself has produced any famous players? (and is relatively unknown in the tuba world) if you're both that good (and apparently fairly well-to-do) why not go to Indiana, Michigan, Eastman, Arizona..etc. etc...

(don't take that last question as being to mean-spirited, I'm actually quite urious at this point)

From having met Arkietuba... (never mw) I can answer a few of these questions for you.

1. He doesn't seem very "well to do" and he doesn't play on the best horn in the world.

2. He is an above average college player.

3. The school you attend is not a determination of excellence.

4. Luis Young is a pretty good teacher, he just hasn't been at UCA long enough to make much of an impact. (Arkietuba goes to UCA not UofA)

5. Matt is a nice, quiet guy, supportive of his fraternity brothers, and if you don't appreciate his comments on playing you should come here him sometime (you might make the comments for him then) I'm not sure about the comments he's making, but he isn't an egotist.

It seems like the hardest thing to do is "read someone" over the internet. Matt is kinda hard to do that with, I suspect. (MW, I honestly don't know enough about him to say either way---but his posts are pretty "out there")

(off topic) Do you know Mason Daffinee by chance? Ithaca grad, that I marched PR with?

Arkietuba · Post by **Arkietuba** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 12:38 am

Okay, I know what I come across as on this message board...I just use my personal experience becasue I think it is relavent to the discussion...okay, I seriously never learned how to double tongue, I did it naturally, my band director stopped me one day during an etude and asked me if I was double tonguing and I had no idea what he was talking about, I had never heard any pro tuba players before this, I just did what came natural and made it easier to play the etudes, I did learn later on in private lessons w/ Dr. Young, but that just messed me up because I had to think about it...okay, so yeah, most of you have never heard of me...that's cool, one day you will, I'm not cocky, I just like to set my goals high...I will be famous one day not because I think I'm the badest mother f-in tuba player out there, but because that's what I want to be and so far I'm well on my way to doing so... and as for Wes, he hasn't heard me play in a while and the last time he head me play I had a horrible performance of the Fury I by Grant...I played it much better the first performance I gave the previous month...

And as for MW, he really is a good guy, I just hate it when people give him a hard time because he's a good friend...yes, he should've sent a PM but maybe he had reasons, just give the guy a break...