What have you found inside your instrument?

k001k47 · Post by **k001k47** » Mon Oct 01, 2007 2:21 am

A lot of br***

tuba-tobias · Post by **tuba-tobias** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 11:13 am

Back in 1974 I was playing in His Majesty the King of Norway Guards Band and we were to participate in a military tattoo in Iserlohn in Germany. During the dress rehearsal I felt that my BBb Boosey sounded more like an altohorn with very funny intonation rather than what I was used to.
So back in the barracks I and the tuba jumped into the shower and after a good soak 4 sandwiches in paper wrapping sailed out of the bell.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 8:39 pm

euphoniumguy227 wrote:1-3 pounds of fungi.

Are we talking morells or portabellas?

Yosef: Tubist · Post by **Yosef: Tubist** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:42 pm

One at Marching band camp back in high school we were marching and I heard a humming noise and then a loud clank clank clank. I look over at my fellow tuba player to see him taking off his sousaphone really quickly then out flew a humming bird! HAA!

Yosef: Tubist · Post by **Yosef: Tubist** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:46 pm

Oh then once at this Dinner show that my HS used to do as a fundraiser I was about to play a solo, I was back stage one of my very idiotic friends threw a half eaten dinner roll in my bell. Unnoticed by me it sat there until I sat on stage and tried to blow the first note. I turned it over and out popped the dinner roll. Croud laughed, I laughed, it was pretty funny hahaaaaa <i>*sarcasm*</i>.

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:46 pm

I lost my German-costume tie on a gig where it turned out I didn't need it.

On that same gig, I had a weird sensation that the horn was stuffy.

No wonder.

dfear · Post by **dfear** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 12:36 pm

Several years back one of my middle school euphonium players pulled a chewed piece of gum from her second valve casing. She swore it wasn't hers, and I never caught her chewing gum during band again.

The Jackson · Post by **The Jackson** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:32 pm

On the last marching practice before our district evaluation, I turned my YSH-411, reached my hand in the bell and pulled out a rolled-up, moist drill chart of our opener. It must have been there since the beginning of the season D:

I played like crap the rest of the rehearsal because of the change in resistance (which was pretty substansial!)

Tubaing · Post by **Tubaing** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 1:02 am

I just took a whole buch of solder out of my Buescher Tuba (Although I am the one who put it in.)

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:25 pm

Chuck Norris doesn't stay in tubas - he leaps out, rips the heart out of conductors that give him the hand, then puts their still beating hearts in that outstretched hand...

J.c. Sherman · Post by **J.c. Sherman** » Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:53 pm

Someone mentioned a cat. Mine had wandered into my end-loading gigbag. Put my Tuba in and walked out the door, un til I hear mewing...

But the WORST... I work at a shop that does a lot of student repairs; plenty of music, oil bottles, matchbox cars, anythin imaginable. But one day flushing a Euph before and acid bath...

Poop. Human.

Followed closely by fresh human vomit...

J.c.S>

Mwtuba32 · Post by **Mwtuba32** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 1:27 am

I found a "fortune" written in chinese in my selman euphonium.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 9:26 am

Mwtuba32 wrote:I found a "fortune" written in chinese in my selman euphonium.

Oh MAN, you got one of the good ones!!

Tubaing · Post by **Tubaing** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:28 am

Virx wrote:...lump of foil with some brown stuff in it floated out of the bell. Luckily it was chocolate...

WilliamVance · Post by **WilliamVance** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:25 pm

A patio cola bottle in a 20K. Patio cola was what diet pepsi was called when it was introduced. They switched the name to diet pepsi in 1963 or so according to some info I found on the web. It made a huge difference on how the horn played

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 2:47 pm

In Ireland, it was know as "Patti O'Cola"

jhedrick · Post by **jhedrick** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:08 pm

windshieldbug wrote:In Ireland, it was know as "Patti O'Cola"

And you could drink while sitting on Paddy O'Furniture

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Sun Jan 20, 2008 5:11 pm

when in H.S. it was a tradition for our night halloween marching rehearsal for the sousas to dress up the horns and themselves for a good kick. well, one of the guys wanted to be the dole banana lady and filled his bell with various fruits. we had a rather long water break and we sat or horns on the side (right next to a forest). we picked up the horns and started to play a little and he was having trouble and asked me to look at his horn. i blew as hard as i could and out jumped a live squirrel with a piece of banana in its mouth. i nearly died of laughter.

-casey

andrew the tuba player · Mon Jan 21, 2008 5:15 pm

My friend showed his parents this and told them it was me jokeingly and they belived him and said I was a bad person.

Tubaing · Post by **Tubaing** » Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:19 pm

I cleaned out an old Holton sousaphone my school had laying around for a while on top of some lockers and there were many pens, pencils, papers, a glue stick, a drum stick, batteries, some wood cylinder percussion thing, glitter, and some candy wrappers. There is still something else in there. I hope I can get out because it plays about as well as my school's Box (Bachs) sousas with the large object inside!

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