Me & My Tuba, Add You & Yours

[jonesbrass]

Jeff, nice to see you on here. I can't make out this last picture, but is it the massed band from the last parade of the allies through the Brandenburg Gate? I don't remember how many sousa's we had on that parade, but I know it was a bit larger than the standard army band compliment. Did you go with us over to the former east to see the Leningrad Cowboys and the Red Army Chorus?

**after looking at the last picture more closely, I can see only four sousas, so I guess that wasn't it. Nice pictures, though, Jeff.**

[bearphonium]

Even though it is a 3/4 size BBb....

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[MartyNeilan]

With "BART" at The Factory in Franklin, TN last week. The famous (or infamous) Camp Kirkland is on the far right.

[Chuck Jackson]

The famous (or infamous) Camp Kirkland is on the far right.

Wow, I've made a TON of money in my career playing his tunes. Some, aptly or not, dubbed his music "Jesus Goes to Nashville", while it is an interesting sentiment, I always admired how his arrangements made the most miserable choirs, and soloists, sound pretty darn good.

Chuck"who thought CK might have been a tuba player"Jackson

[Master Sergeant Tuba]

@ Carl,

Yup, this ceremony was close to the end, but I don't believe we had many more than any typical day out there. The snares are a giveaway as we would only have three plus one bass drummer and one cymbal player. I believe the mission you remember had over 110 on the field. Didn't we airlift the entire 1st Army Band from Fort Meade as well as the Hellcats to march with us that day (as well as bringing up every other Band Soldier in Germany)?

Oh, if you rode the Berlin Band's bus on your tour, I was the driver. If you rode with the 1st Army Band, I was the guide. The series of events from the fall of the Wall in 89 through succession of the Allied Kommendatura and the withdrawal of Allied powers were once in a generation performances. Good times.

[imperialbari]

Which tuba model is this?

Klaus

[Master Sergeant Tuba]

Klaus,

If memory stands correct, it's a Meinl Weston 2011Ta (Hojo BBb), one of two in Afghanistan at the time. Lighter than the Baer for caroling, that's for sure.

Jeff

[imperialbari]

Klaus,

If memory stands correct, it's a Meinl Weston 2011Ta (Hojo BBb), one of two in Afghanistan at the time. Lighter than the Baer for caroling, that's for sure.

Jeff

Thank you very much!

It was the top action combined with the tuning in the leadpipe that puzzled me. I could only come up with some older and hardly relevant models. I have heard about the HoJo BBb models, but they were not on top of my memory.



The top action is said to have been made after the Mahillon BBb tubas as of 50 years ago, for which MW was the subcontractor for the bells. Mahillon was the supplier of alto horns and down in the Danish army brass bands of that era. So I saw them back then.

Klaus

[armytuba]

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[Master Sergeant Tuba]

Smokin' Gino ~ As always. Shame you didn't take the Helicon.

[Bignick1357]

Miraphone 1292

[Bandmaster]

Miraphone 1292

Gee... I didn't know Miraphone made left-handed tubas?

...or did you just flip the photo?

[The Jackson]

Miraphone 1292

Gee... I didn't know Miraphone made left-handed tubas?

...or did you just flip the photo?

Nick actually just used the wrong model number. The 1292 is the right-handed version of the 2921. It's a common error!

[k001k47]

Like this?

[imperialbari]

k001k47, why do you call yourself a professional looser?

In my eyes you just have an impressively extended sense of directionality.

K

[katietes]

LOL thanks, gentlemen! The tiny chair begs to be photographed!

[P@rick]

LOL thanks, gentlemen...

It's like an optical illusion...I had to look a while to the picture before I noticed the tuba

[k001k47]

k001k47, why do you call yourself a professional looser?

In my eyes you just have an impressively extended sense of directionality.

K

My head is screwed on a little too loose, so I lose it sometimes.

[Teubonium]

LOL thanks, gentlemen! The tiny chair begs to be photographed!

Tiny Chair? What Tiny Chair?

[bigbob]

Great looking tuba everything else is accessories a little bigger stool might help if I sat that low I'de never get up <S>...BB