Tuba in Literature

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 6:33 pm

Longfellow Deeds in Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Casey Tucker · Post by **Casey Tucker** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 8:20 pm

tubby the tuba :D

thought i might point out the obvious.

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 9:57 pm

I don't have the author's or publisher's name at hand, but in storage somewhere I have a book called "The New Tuba". A town in Mexico buys a new tuba for the town band, and the whole town is anxious for the delivery, esp the tuba player's son.

The Jackson · Post by **The Jackson** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 10:22 pm

School Of Rock

The fat boy played the tuba in the band room scene, and was a security guard in the rest of the film.

Stereotyping?

Maybe.

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:37 pm

Don't forget the Beatles' song about Maxwell's Silver Tuba
(came down upon her head)

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Sat Apr 12, 2008 11:38 pm

We all live in a yellow tuba.

Lucy in the Sky With a Tuba.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:36 pm

SplatterTone wrote:We all live in a yellow tuba.

Lucy in the Sky With a Tuba.

While My Tuba Gently Weeps

Nick Pierce · Post by **Nick Pierce** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 2:49 pm

There may have been a mention of a tuba in Gaston Leroux's novel The Phantom of the Opera, during the sometimes lengthy descriptions of the opera house and its operations. Don't know for sure though.

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Sun Apr 13, 2008 8:05 pm

This is pretty damn close:

'More's the pity,' replied another. 'Time was - long and merry ago now! - when not one of the varmits was to be heard of; but it served some of the quires right. They should have stuck to strings as we did, and kept out clarinets, and done away with serpents. If you'd thrive in musical religion, stick to strings, says I.'

'Strings be safe soul-lifters, as far as that do go,' said Mr Spinks.

'Yet there's worse things than serpents,' said Mr Penny. 'Old things pass away, 'tis true; but a serpent was a good old note: a deep rich note was the serpent.'

From Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:25 pm

"an old plaintive, masculine voice arose in a song, wavering, stumbling in the silence at first alone, until in the band a euphonium horn fumbled for the key, and took up the air, one catching and rising above the other and the other pursuingâ€¦"

from The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Mon Apr 14, 2008 2:34 pm

You would have said that he played Hamlet--or the tuba--or pinochle--you would never have laid your hand on your heart and said: "He is a hermit who lived ...

from To him who Waits by O. Henry

SplatterTone · Post by **SplatterTone** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:38 am

Well OK. It's been ten hours and nothing new. Time again for the slightly hazy literary recollections.

The Long and Winding Tuba.

Strawberry Tubas Forever.

cambrook · Post by **cambrook** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:19 am

The Woman Who Wouldn't

Gene Wilder's...second novel, set in 1903, stars a young concert violinist named Jeremy Webb, who one day goes from accomplished adagios with the Cleveland Orchestra to having a complete breakdown on stage. If he hadnâ€™t poured a glass of water down the throat of a tuba, maybe he wouldnâ€™t have been sent to a health resort in Badenweiler, Germany.....

OldsRecording · Post by **OldsRecording** » Tue Apr 15, 2008 2:20 pm

SplatterTone wrote:Well OK. It's been ten hours and nothing new. Time again for the slightly hazy literary recollections.

The Long and Winding Tuba.

Strawberry Tubas Forever.

Awwww, c'mon. Surely I haven't found every single literary referance to 'the relavent instruments' that's out there. Dig little deeper, willya?

Doug@GT · Post by **Doug@GT** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 1:03 pm

Douglas Adams in Chapter 10 of [i]Life, The Universe and Everything[/i] wrote: They slipped out from underneath the tree, and followed the cheery party along the dark hill path. Their natural instinct was to tread quietly and stealthily in pursuit of their quarry, though, as they were simply walking through a recorded Informational Illusion, they could as easily have been carrying euphoniums and wearing war paint for all the notice their quarry would have taken of them.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sun Apr 20, 2008 2:18 pm

Clarence Budington Kelland wrote a short story called "Opera Hat," which I'd like to find. It appeared in 1935, in the April through September issues of a magazine called The American. This was the inspiration for "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936). I don't know that much else about it.

Brucom · Post by **Brucom** » Thu May 01, 2008 9:32 pm

I just skimmed the thread, but I don't think I saw these:

1. Gideon the Tuba Warrior in VeggieTales.
2. In the movie My Girl, Dan Aykroyd is briefly playing the tuba.

tubabuddha · Post by **tubabuddha** » Fri May 02, 2008 12:56 am

i didnt see this but theres a john updike poem about Roger Bobo

Eskimos in Manitoba, barracuda off Aruba cock an ear when Roger Bobo starts to solo on the tuba
By: John Updike
thats how it starts i cant find the rest

Brucom · Post by **Brucom** » Fri May 02, 2008 10:14 pm

Recital
Eskimos in Manitoba,
Barracuda off Aruba,
Cock an ear when Roger Bobo
Starts to solo on the tuba.

Men of every station -- Pooh-Bah,
Nabob, bozo, toff, and hobo --
Cry in unison, "Indubi-
Tably, there is simply nobo-

Dy who oompahs on the tubo,
Solo, quite like Roger Bubo!"

-John Updike

kegmcnabb · Post by **kegmcnabb** » Wed May 07, 2008 11:47 am

Don't forget Vincent Price as the Abominable Dr. Phibes.

In the first movie, in order to amplify his electronic voice box (can't talk, damaged vocal chords) he would plug it into his organ (no jokes please).
In the second movie he plugs it DIRECTLY INTO A SOUSAPHONE

that is carried by his lovely mute assistant. More portable than his organ I'm sure, but honestly, I hadn't been aware you could do that!

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