Worst thing flushed out of a tuba

sousaphone68 · Post by **sousaphone68** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 4:33 pm

I always remember an unfortunate experience of a Bb player I knew. He had a nice boosey hawks bb imperial that he stored in the band hall which was in the basement of an office block.
He started to complain of feeling ill after playing the tuba this happened on a couple of rehearsals in a row. So he decided to take the tuba home and give it a bath so borrowed a car and took it home.
He gave it a soaking for about 20 mins in a Luke warm bath and then hooked the shower hose up to the lead pipe and let the water flow. And was both surprised disgusted and ill when a dead mouse floated out of the bell so much that he failed to keep a hold of the tuba which was now full of water and very heavy and like all pieces of falling bread landed butter side down on the faucets damaging both the tuba bell and the bath.
He can laugh about it now 20 years later does anybody have any similar cautionary tales

Alex C · Post by **Alex C** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:19 pm

In high school: an unexploded cherry bomb was found in a sousaphone after a parade.

tclements · Post by **tclements** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:24 pm

NO QUESTION, dead rat!

aqualung · Post by **aqualung** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 5:49 pm

I know a guy who stored his souzie in a barn.

A possum crawled in to hibernate. But never woke up.

RanmaSyaoran · Post by **RanmaSyaoran** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:01 pm

Alex C wrote:In high school: an unexploded cherry bomb was found in a sousaphone after a parade.

We never had those in our country, what kind of damage can they do?

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:20 pm

If I lose enough weight, I would like to be burried inside my Yorkbrunner. I would have to lose a lot of weight.

tbn.al · Post by **tbn.al** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 6:53 pm

A full can of beer after a Friday night away game.

tubajoe · Post by **tubajoe** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 7:06 pm

forgot I had posted this a while ago... speaking of things in tubas

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SousaSaver · Post by **SousaSaver** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:09 pm

tclements wrote:NO QUESTION, dead rat!

YUP

SousaSaver · Post by **SousaSaver** » Wed Jul 13, 2011 10:13 pm

http://sousacentral.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... n-20k.html

sousaphone68 · Post by **sousaphone68** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 9:18 am

BRSousa wrote:http://sousacentral.blogspot.com/2010/1 ... n-20k.html

Thats a mean trick jocks picking on band geeks

pigman · Post by **pigman** » Thu Jul 14, 2011 8:50 pm

Dead mouse His face was visable from the reciever.. never could get the stink ot

Pair of size XXXl womans panties scarier than the mouse

JohnMCooper · Post by **JohnMCooper** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 11:17 am

I'll bet that smelled good when you were pulling it apart!

Harvey Hartman · Post by **Harvey Hartman** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:20 pm

A dead Black bird in a Sousaphone from Canada... and 4 dead mices in 20J From NC.

cjk · Post by **cjk** » Fri Jul 15, 2011 12:40 pm

While doing google searches for the ratbow picture, I ran across this:

Bigg3469 · Post by **Bigg3469** » Sat May 17, 2014 12:45 am

Being a tuba player at a major California university. I think it maybe a somebody in the tuba section trying to sneak off a game football during the game in their sousaphone and forgetting to get the bloody thing out of the sousaphone!!

My vote goes to the dead rat

EEW!!!

Bigg3469 · Post by **Bigg3469** » Sat May 17, 2014 12:48 am

Anyone found a dead cockroach ( those big freaking flying ones) inside their Tuba or Sousaphone while cleaning them?

eupher61 · Post by **eupher61** » Sat May 17, 2014 1:40 am

fortunately, a bag of confetti. I did find a piece of march music in my sousaphone, which linked it to a previous owner. I'm lucky.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sat May 17, 2014 1:20 pm

A trashed souzy (not intentional - dropped and a few more casualties) became the brunt of, well, it was used as one of these, and being in the back of a storage closet, was not discovered for quite awhile:

Roger Lewis · Post by **Roger Lewis** » Sun May 18, 2014 10:58 am

A friend found a 16 lb shot put in his.

Roger

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