TubaTinker wrote:... Bury the hatchet and move on. A band is about people working together.
We can bury the hatchet when the multi- thousand dollar tubas are fixed. We have a right to be beyone mad. We are not only screwed for this year, but next. True, we will probably just have our director make an announcement to the band about it. Maybe that will help. We are trying to make this work for everyone. As much as we would like to, our band can't afford to loose tubas OR percussionists. Which is why we haven't taken any action yet ourselves. We are going to let our director handle this, as much as we would like to just fight about it. You are right, band is about working together. It's just frustrating when people will play pranks on us, unknowingly, making a multi thousand dollar instrument unplayable.
Tubajason wrote:...asking people over a chat room with no pictures or descrpition of the sound being made will not help....
I don't really know how to describe it. They are muffled and will not play. The sound and feel kinda reminds me of when you forget to fully convert the convertable tubas. Or if a vavle is not pressed down all the way. But we have checked everything.
And I can't post pictures untill I go back to school. I will take a video of someone attempting to play each horn, so you guys can see AND hear what I'm talking about. But it can't be done untill tomarrow.
Tubajason wrote:Find or get the cases for the tuba's and sousaphones, everyday my tuba players whether it is concert band or marching take the instruments out of the case at the beginnig of rehearsal and put it back in the case at the end of rehearsal, and in all those years we have never had a issue with foriegn objects being found in the sousaphones or tubas.
Whatever you do going forward put the instruments away, H.S. kids being kids will mess with tubas when they are left out, you will never even know they are doing it because the bulk of the damage/playing around will happen outside of band.
The tubas are always in their cases when they aren't being played. And if they're not (i.e. for pep band when they are in the stands), they are watched by the director or parents. They are only being messed with when we are playing them. We can't see anything being trown into them because the bells are above us, and we can't hear anything, because we are playing. So the object (paper) is blown through the horn.
And one of us would know if they were being taken out of the cases and tampered with. I am literally the first one in the band room everyday and one of the last to leave. And whenever the director is not in the band room, the instrument closet is locked. So it can only be happening when we are playing during rehearsal.
Even though, I have managed to make a total arse of myself, Thanks for the replies.
I don't play the tuba.
I am a tuba player.
There's a difference.
mwahaha...
