Yamaha YBB-621 versus Miraphone 190

The Jackson · Post by **The Jackson** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:28 pm

Lulz have indeed been had, as with much of the forum.

Jackson "who lol'd" Parodi

Uncle Buck · Post by **Uncle Buck** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:52 pm

Rick Denney wrote:
Liberty Mo wrote:Is anyone else really confused?
No one more than me.

Rick "confusion is our most important product" Denney

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_p ... y_disorder

(I'm still laughing out loud from the Elephant's lubricant comment.)

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 5:58 pm

the elephant wrote:Buy the Yamaha. Get the Miraphone for use as a case for the little 621. It ought to fit in the bell quite well. Use lubricant.

"grease before insertion"

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:00 pm

TNFJ membership test: Getting the joke without having to have it explained.

Wannabes: Confused.

Rick "suggesting introspection for those who identify with my dissociated alter ego" Denney

sloan · Post by **sloan** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 6:07 pm

If it ain't bloke, don't fix it.

Todd S. Malicoate · Post by **Todd S. Malicoate** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 7:08 pm

bloke wrote:
sloan wrote:If it ain't bloke, don't fix it.
Whaddaya want?

Tubas with good taste...?? or tubas that taste good...??

Sorry, Charlie...

bttmbow · Post by **bttmbow** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 9:13 pm

After this is over, when Herr Dennski is in the sanitorium... the York Master is coming back to me, because that's what's in your living will, right?

I'll take TWO anodized aluminum valve caps, please...

And one rutabaga for my friend, the trombonist.

Thank you very much,
Latke

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:26 pm

bttmbow wrote:After this is over, when Herr Dennski is in the sanitorium... the York Master is coming back to me, because that's what's in your living will, right?

I'll take TWO anodized aluminum valve caps, please...

And one rutabaga for my friend, the trombonist.

Thank you very much,
Latke

"Living" will? If I go to the looney bin, I'm taking the tubas with me. It will shorten my stay (one way or the other). Then you can claim it based on what's in my "Dying" will.

Rick "who lives near DC and is already looney-bin qualified" Denney

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:28 pm

MEISTERTUBA wrote:
Liberty Mo wrote:Is anyone else really confused?
Confused, no. Bored, yes.

Is this really what this forum has turned into? You not have have something better to do with your time than make "membership tests"?

Heh. Methinks he doth protest too much.

Rick "Look, Martha, we got one!" Denney

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:49 pm

Rick Denney wrote:If I go to the looney bin, I'm taking the tubas with me.

Longfellow Deeds wrote:About my playing the tuba. Seems like a lot of fuss has been made about that. If a man's crazy just because he plays the tuba, then somebody'd better look into it, because there are a lot of tuba players running around loose.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 10:52 pm

MEISTERTUBA wrote:... You not have have something better to do with your time than make "membership tests"?

Matthias Dietrich
Principal Tuba, U of A
(graduating 2010)

Uh oh...

Liberty Mo · Post by **Liberty Mo** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:23 pm

Rick Denney wrote:TNFJ membership test: Getting the joke without having to have it explained.

Wannabes: Confused.

Rick "suggesting introspection for those who identify with my dissociated alter ego" Denney

I don't pretend to be in the know in regards to what is obviously some sort of inside joke or attempt at humor by those who frequent the message board much more than I.

My lack of understanding or sense of humor has apparently relegated me to a "wannabe."

Following the TUBENET Forum over the last 6 years, I never thought it would go this route....

MikeMason · Post by **MikeMason** » Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:28 pm

MO,you still got that 2341 with the Lee Stofer/rudi meinl 5th valve that looked like it was in a house fire?I want to play that horn one day.Should have bid on it...yet another one I let get away...

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 2:33 am

Following the TUBENET Forum over the last 6 years, I never thought it would go this route....

If you have read this forum for six years, you have seen me respond to "what tuba should I buy" and "what mouthpiece should I use" questions hundreds of times each. Let me poke fun at the silliness of it once in a while. Those who see where I'm going with my extremely rare and admittedly obscure jokes either back away politely or join in the fun. No humor is appreciated by everyone, and those who don't see it or even try to understand it need to be laughed at so that they will get a clue. Sorry it had to be you this time. It isn't just a joke, after all. It does have a point, and sometimes the point bites deep. The purpose of obscurity is to force those who are confused to explore it further. I didn't say I was good at it.

In the last two days, I have said that being a bona fide member of the TNFJ is NOT A COMPLIMENT. It is NOT a badge of honor. It is NOT an achievement. No qualifications are required, and that's the problem. The only requirement is having a keyboard and an ISP. But those who are undeniable freaks know the disease, being fellow sufferers.

Sometimes, it seems that folks ask questions to avoid having to think, or do real research, or take lessons like they should, or go to a conference, or arrange a trip to a store, or try to gather their own experience. Then, they expect a bunch of middle-aged fat guys (literally or figuratively) who don't know them and have never heard them play to make it easy for them. How is that not worthy of derision? What the heck to we know? Even if we are top pros, how could we know what's best for one guy who asks a broad question and leaves out the most important bits?

And then there are those who answer authoritatively with information they do not themselves know to be true. They are as fun to laugh at as the clueless guys who ask the questions in the first place.

For example, "What tuba should I buy? I'm really, really good. I like my St. Pete, but I hear the Thor is good. Should I buy a Thor?" The question is impossible to answer, but it's no worse than this answer, "My teacher has a Thor and it ROCKS!" That answer goes beyond mere unhelpfulness. Yet, in the face of such exchanges, many still try to cut through and say something useful, though they risk doing so to people who 1.) often don't want to hear it, and 2.) are unwilling to abide anyone snipping away the foolishness to get to the heart of the matter. Sometimes I think we are idiots for doing it, and probably worse than the guy who just parrots what (he thinks) his teacher says.

The smart ones either toss in a fact or two, or just sit back knowing that the clueless will someday get a clue, or the won't, probably unaffected in that conclusion by anything that might be said to them.

That's why we are a jury of freaks. All of us.

And the tide of similar questions keeps rolling in.

That's what Tubenet has come to.

Rick "not expecting anyone to understand or agree with this foolishness" Denney

Liberty Mo · Post by **Liberty Mo** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:06 am

MikeMason wrote:MO,you still got that 2341 with the Lee Stofer/rudi meinl 5th valve that looked like it was in a house fire?I want to play that horn one day.Should have bid on it...yet another one I let get away...

Sadly no!, I let it get away too. I sold it to buy an Edwards Bass Trombone about a year ago to another Tubenetter because I had a ton of calls on bass bone, but little on tuba. It was one of the best tubas and the best example of the new Kings that I had ever played....except for cleaning that satin finish....I quickly found out why it looked like it was in a fire!

I'm in the processing of "replacing" the King with something now, just waiting for the right instrument. Maybe a Miraphone 190 or Yamaha 621, don't know yet. Heard the Thor is really cool though....maybe Rick Denney can help me decide?

days later finally getting on the humor bus...

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Mar 27, 2008 8:45 pm

the elephant wrote:
Mark wrote:
MEISTERTUBA wrote:... You not have have something better to do with your time than make "membership tests"?

Matthias Dietrich
Principal Tuba, U of A
(graduating 2010)
Uh oh...
Is this really what this forum has turned into? Well? Is it?

Hey, I'm just observing. I cringed a little because of the rule violation bolded above. Pass the popcorn.

Chriss2760 · Post by **Chriss2760** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 12:53 am

Why would there need be rules for a public forum about tubas?

Because the sheep need them.

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:45 pm

MEISTERTUBA wrote:Why would there need be rules for a public forum about tubas?

I don't make the rules, I only follow them: viewtopic.php?t=9330

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 10:10 am

MEISTERTUBA wrote:Matthias "who thinks that people have taken putting quotes into their names at the end of posts may be the real sheep" Dietrich

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Sat Mar 29, 2008 1:48 pm

MEISTERTUBA wrote:Matthias "who thinks that people have taken putting quotes into their names at the end of posts may be the real sheep" Dietrich

Mooooo!

TubeNet

Yamaha YBB-621 versus Miraphone 190

No synthetic sheep here!