The first annual Chicago cimbasso/contrabone conference!

[Bob Kolada]

Any interest? I've posted this on the trombone forum as well.
http://tromboneforum.org/index.php/topic,51712.0.html

[Tuba Guy]

If I can make it to Chicago, I'd bring mine!

[Bob Kolada]

Bump!

[Tubadork]

that would be fun.

Bill

[Bob Kolada]

Probably not so much a conference as a bunch (?!) of people drinking beer, playing funny instruments, and struggling with intonation...

[Bob Kolada]

Bump?

[bort]

But you're selling your contra!? I guess you'd better schedule it before you sell it! Will you have a cimbasso for the second annual conference?

(Just bustin' your chops. This would be a noisy, loud, and fun mess to join in. )

[Sam Gnagey]

I'd be intersted in going. Might put together a new F to make available. When? Where?

[cambrook]

Bob, we'll all be there, but you won't be allowed in if you've sold everything

[Bob Kolada]

I guess I can keep it/no one'll buy it anyways.
I have -zero- ideas about when or where.

FWIW, here's a picture of me after I got home from a gig yesterday and probably ticking off my neighbors and anyone walking within a block or 2 (I think I set off a car alarm with the bass a block away a few months ago )....

Bill, what mp are you using on yours? After playing Eb tuba for so long, the 2A and C I have for this (an instrument only 1 step higher) feels rather constricting. I'd love to try a small shank F tuba mp and if that "tubs" it out a bit so much the better. I also gotta get that angle taken out of it (the tubing between the slide and the valves) as it's driving me nuts! Then to get the cork barrels cut down and get longer tubes,.... Soon I'll have it as it should be!

[tubademon999]

I guess I can keep it/no one'll buy it anyways.
I have -zero- ideas about when or where.

FWIW, here's a picture of me after I got home from a gig yesterday and probably ticking off my neighbors and anyone walking within a block or 2 (I think I set off a car alarm with the bass a block away a few months ago )....

After playing Eb tuba for so long, the 2A and C I have for this (an instrument only 1 step higher) feels rather constricting.

lol, I use the 2A when i play Bass bone. I love it

[Bob Kolada]

Ditch that 2A and get a C (like 50 bucks from Dillon's). They're not terribly different depth wise, but the C is much better in a bass trombone (what I bought mine for!). A 2E, though custom, would probably rock. That's probably part of the reason they are a bit small for me on contra.

[tubademon999]

Thanks for the advice!

[Ken Herrick]

Hey, Bob, it seems you do have some interest in the idea. Maybe what it needs is for you to start "building" it. ( Build it - they will come!!! )

Maybe you could tie it in with Mid-West, or at least at the same time if they were not interested in having it as a part of the big show. Possible one of the universities would come on board. If nothing else a day held away from the show would mean people could still get to Midwest and check out what's on display then get together elsewhere to do your own thing and finally have a beer and Uno's pizza night.

Maybe if you checked with Brian F and Jay F they could help you with getting the ball rolling.

Just some ideas to maybe start with. First thing - pick a time.

Ken