Here in New York, every year they set up two gigantic spotlights at Ground Zero in observance of 9/11. Never realized before last night that I can see it from our apartment.
Update Update
Forum rules
Be kind. No government, state, or local politics allowed. Admin has final decision for any/all removed posts.
Be kind. No government, state, or local politics allowed. Admin has final decision for any/all removed posts.
-
bort
- 6 valves
- Posts: 11223
- Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:08 pm
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Re: Update Update
You do not have the required permissions to view the files attached to this post.
-
TexTuba
- 5 valves
- Posts: 1424
- Joined: Tue Feb 08, 2005 5:01 pm
Re: Update Update
Congratulations!!Thomas Maurice Booth wrote:I am now a married man! The wedding ceremony and reception were both perfect! We had a great time getting married at the Botanical Gardens and celebrating at a local brewery. Now we have a day to relax and then we're off for the honeymoon tomorrow morning!!!
-
MartyNeilan
- 6 valves
- Posts: 4876
- Joined: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:06 am
- Location: Practicing counting rests.
Re: Update Update
When talking to my girlfriend on the way home last night, I jokingly gloated about how I was going to be making her favorite burritos before I ran off to rehearsal. When I got home, the electricity was out. I called her back to tell her I was having celery and sardines.
Learned my lesson.
Learned my lesson.
-
Tuba Guy
- 4 valves
- Posts: 677
- Joined: Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:11 pm
- Location: here...or there...depends on where I am....
Re: Update Update
I'll be taking my first professional orchestra audition tomorrow morning! So excited!!
"We can avoid humanity's mistakes"
"Like the tuba!"
"Like the tuba!"
-
k001k47
- 5 valves
- Posts: 1469
- Joined: Sun Aug 12, 2007 2:54 am
- Location: Tejas
Re: Update Update
Good luck!Tuba Guy wrote:I'll be taking my first professional orchestra audition tomorrow morning! So excited!!
-
PWtuba
- bugler
- Posts: 233
- Joined: Mon Aug 13, 2007 6:48 pm
- Location: Central Ohio
Re: Update Update
Just moved into my dorm at the University of Cincinnati. An exciting, nerve-wracking, challenging time.
Peter
-
bearphonium
- 5 valves
- Posts: 1077
- Joined: Wed Jan 17, 2007 9:21 pm
- Location: Making mischief in the back row at 44, 1' 49"N, 123, 8'10"W
Re: Update Update
Just got back from a 1560 mile, 9 day motorcycle trip around Oregon, with slight ventures into Washington and Idaho. Jet boat ride on the Snake River through Hells Canyon, a tram ride up to Mt. Herman in the Wallowa Mountains, and some of the twisty highways that Oregon has to offer.
Mirafone 186 BBb
VMI 201 3/4 BBb
King Sousaphone
Conn 19I 4-valve non-comp Euph
What Would Xena Do?
VMI 201 3/4 BBb
King Sousaphone
Conn 19I 4-valve non-comp Euph
What Would Xena Do?
-
Rev Rob
- 3 valves
- Posts: 417
- Joined: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:18 am
- Location: Absarokee, Montana - South Stillwater County
Re: Update Update
Had a nice little practice tonight working on the basics. I was so inspired I had to order the Bloke Piece sale's special. Can't wait for the mouthpieces to arrive and begin to mix and match.
Ordered:
#2 Solo
Symphony
#2 rim at 33.2
#1 rim at 33.2
Ordered:
#2 Solo
Symphony
#2 rim at 33.2
#1 rim at 33.2
Beginning again to be a tuba player.
1291 King Double B flat with detachable bell.
"The hills are alive, with the sound of (tuba) music."
1291 King Double B flat with detachable bell.
"The hills are alive, with the sound of (tuba) music."
-
bort
- 6 valves
- Posts: 11223
- Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:08 pm
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Re: Update Update
Very cool. Let us know what you think of them! Oh yeah, how did your horn turn out after Dan Oberloh worked on it?Rev Rob wrote:Had a nice little practice tonight working on the basics. I was so inspired I had to order the Bloke Piece sale's special. Can't wait for the mouthpieces to arrive and begin to mix and match.
Ordered:
#2 Solo
Symphony
#2 rim at 33.2
#1 rim at 33.2
-
Rev Rob
- 3 valves
- Posts: 417
- Joined: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:18 am
- Location: Absarokee, Montana - South Stillwater County
Re: Update Update
Bort,
The horn is still in the shop. I won't begin calling him until October. I am looking forward to having it back with improved valves. I am sort of getting used to the Miraphone I am using.
The horn is still in the shop. I won't begin calling him until October. I am looking forward to having it back with improved valves. I am sort of getting used to the Miraphone I am using.
Beginning again to be a tuba player.
1291 King Double B flat with detachable bell.
"The hills are alive, with the sound of (tuba) music."
1291 King Double B flat with detachable bell.
"The hills are alive, with the sound of (tuba) music."
-
bort
- 6 valves
- Posts: 11223
- Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:08 pm
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Re: Update Update
Aah, cool. That's very soon though!
-
bort
- 6 valves
- Posts: 11223
- Joined: Wed Sep 22, 2004 11:08 pm
- Location: Minneapolis, Minnesota
Re: Update Update
Second update -- had my first band rehearsal of the season tonight. Some real groaners in the folder (some I've played a lot before, some that are modern/out there/do nothing for me) but also my favorite Grainger tune, Children's March. 
-
Tuba Guy
- 4 valves
- Posts: 677
- Joined: Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:11 pm
- Location: here...or there...depends on where I am....
Re: Update Update
I seem to get less blank stares when I tell people that I'm carrying around a dead body instead of a tuba. 
You have been updated.
You have been updated.
"We can avoid humanity's mistakes"
"Like the tuba!"
"Like the tuba!"
-
Kevin Hendrick
- 6 valves
- Posts: 3156
- Joined: Sat Sep 25, 2004 10:51 pm
- Location: Location: Location
Re: Update Update
Literally a "whopper" -- "Verdi nice!"the elephant wrote:A "Verdi" bass drum mallet is made specifically for those blasts in the "Dies Ire" parts in the Requiem. It's a whopper, too!
http://memphisdrumshop.com/index.php?ma ... ts_id=1165
I was told that it was like swinging a fish bat with a chunk of cement on the end, all padded and covered to look nice...
Reminds me of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhJQp-q1 ... re=related
"Don't take life so serious, son. It ain't nohow permanent." -- Pogo (via Walt Kelly)
-
Rev Rob
- 3 valves
- Posts: 417
- Joined: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:18 am
- Location: Absarokee, Montana - South Stillwater County
Re: Update Update
I tried my 2 Blokepieces. So far I prefer the Symphony bowl with the number 1 rim = medium wide. I will next switch rims and see what happens. I have better control of the higher notes with the Symphony than I do the Solo. Otherwise they both sound very good, but they do cause a rattle in my bell, because of a loose wreath.
Beginning again to be a tuba player.
1291 King Double B flat with detachable bell.
"The hills are alive, with the sound of (tuba) music."
1291 King Double B flat with detachable bell.
"The hills are alive, with the sound of (tuba) music."
-
Tuba Guy
- 4 valves
- Posts: 677
- Joined: Mon Dec 22, 2008 1:11 pm
- Location: here...or there...depends on where I am....
Re: Update Update
I'm being given a tuba this afternoon, so I need to pick up beer for the person giving it to me...
Update du jour
Update du jour"We can avoid humanity's mistakes"
"Like the tuba!"
"Like the tuba!"
-
SousaSaver
- 5 valves
- Posts: 1133
- Joined: Sat Jun 26, 2010 5:19 pm
Re: Update Update
I am canceling my gym membership so I can participate in my company's new health program called "Sousaphone dent removal." It involves a series of graduated steel balls and shaking. Uggh...
-
tbn.al
- 6 valves
- Posts: 3004
- Joined: Thu Apr 21, 2005 6:00 pm
- Location: Atlanta, Ga
Re: Update Update
Hey Joe, Whas in da box?bloke wrote:Goodies arrived yesterday!
I am fortunate to have a great job that feeds my family well, but music feeds my soul.
-
TMurphy
- 4 valves
- Posts: 831
- Joined: Sun Mar 21, 2004 11:29 pm
- Location: NJ
Re: Update Update
Yesterday, I participated in the 7th annual "mp3 Experiment" in NYC, set up by Improv Everywhere.
We downloaded an mp3 from Improv Everywhere's website, were instructed not to listen to it until the experiment started. We were told to be in a retail store within a 6 block radius at exactly 6:00 PM, and press play. We then spent the next hour following the directions given on the mp3, ending with wrapping each other in toilet paper for a mummy dance party in Bryant Park. (Unlike bloke's comment about the DC rally in another thread, everyone pitched in and cleaned up afterwards, leaving no mess behind).
http://www.improveverywhere.com
We downloaded an mp3 from Improv Everywhere's website, were instructed not to listen to it until the experiment started. We were told to be in a retail store within a 6 block radius at exactly 6:00 PM, and press play. We then spent the next hour following the directions given on the mp3, ending with wrapping each other in toilet paper for a mummy dance party in Bryant Park. (Unlike bloke's comment about the DC rally in another thread, everyone pitched in and cleaned up afterwards, leaving no mess behind).
http://www.improveverywhere.com
-
MartyNeilan
- 6 valves
- Posts: 4876
- Joined: Fri Mar 19, 2004 3:06 am
- Location: Practicing counting rests.
Re: Update Update
tbn.al wrote:Hey Joe, Whas in da box?bloke wrote:Goodies arrived yesterday!
I sure hope they poked air holes in the box...bloke wrote:Granddaughters at (nearly) one and (just barely) three...
