Famous Quotes About Tubas

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[quote="Chuck(G)"]"I remember you from high school--you barfed in my tuba!

-Chloe Talbot to Homer Simpson, episode 339 "She Used to Be My Girl"

"Actually, it was the SCHOOOOOOL'S Tuba!"
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"The basses are too loud" - a favourite of my band director!
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"Tuba? Isn't that just a big, farting monster of pain?"
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Trombones are cylindrical tubes, tubas are comical tubes,...


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Neptune wrote:"The basses are too loud" - a favourite of my band director!
And my choir director...
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If you can hear yourself off the back wall, you're too loud!" -- unnamed but recently retired wind ensemble conductor

BONUS -- Great trombone quote
Referring to the final thematic statement by the trombones in the finale of Mahler 5th: "Trombones...when Mahler writes "uber alles" he is referring to the orchestra, not the entire state of New York!" --unnamed orchestra conductor
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If there was a star of the evening it was the tuba player, Lee Tsarmaklis, whose solos at the beginning of the finale were a real wonder. Perfect slurs, articulation and phrasing.
Music Web International review of concert of Mahler 6 with London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Mark Elder. Not so often does a tuba player get picked out for such praise!!!

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Q. Why is the tuba considered the hardest instrument to play?

A. Because you have to give them credit; it's a lot harder to read music when you're consistently drunk.
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Hey! I've been known to resemble that remark! 8)
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"Hey what are those little tubas? they sound much nicer than your tuba"

My own mom, regarding a euhponium trio at last year's Tuba halloween concert.
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A tubist and a euphonium player are in a car. Who is driving?

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The cop!
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I know this is an old thread, but hey - Spit Happens!
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David Richoux wrote:I know this is an old thread, but hey - Spit Happens!
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We have that hanging in our studio!
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David Richoux wrote:I know this is an old thread, but hey - Spit Happens!
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Just be aware where you play and drain your tuba. In some cold places it won’t go away:
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David Richoux wrote:
I know this is an old thread, but hey - Spit Happens!
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Why is the attachment "no longer available?" It was not questionable content, it was designed and published by me, it is tuba related...

edit: nevermind - it is back
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TUBA MUSIC:
It's not as bad as it sounds.
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" I love a boy with a big horn " , Bette Midler , Lincoln Center 1975
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While in a Brass Orchestral rep class, we're reading Mahler 5, we play some FF section and apparently the low brass was not loud enough for the liking of our (bass trombonist) conductor, "NO! that section is why you're here, that section is the entire point to you showing up tonight, again, and louder this time!" So myself, and the freshman bass bone next to me decide to give him what he wants, the conductor's reply this time:

"no, you two have just sent the world of low brass playing back 40 years, never do that again....ever"
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A few years ago, I was at a large music store that sells a lot of different models of tubas. I was sitting in a room honking out whatever note (probably trying to play a low low B on a 4 valve Bb, I think) when the salesman comes running in.

"Oh, it's you."


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Director: Clarinets, you are marked "piano"! You don't want to be louder than the tubas!
Tuba Player: Hey, if it's a contest, we'll win.

Heard at a community band rehearsal outside of Pittsburgh, PA. (As are others, not really famous, but certainly memorable.)
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