tuba gimmicks
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bort
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Re: tuba gimmicks
Quarter-tone (or whatever) 6th valves on MW 2165 tubas.
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bisontuba
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Re: tuba gimmicks
+1!!!bort wrote:Quarter-tone (or whatever) 6th valves on MW 2165 tubas.
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Michael Bush
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Re: tuba gimmicks
I'm disappointed none of us has answered the question Bloke actually asked.bloke wrote: purchased by people because they play the tuba players
Dice? Cards? (Nah, the tuba players will have plenty of those.) A dirndl?
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bort
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Re: tuba gimmicks
But doesn't your 6th valve just make it easier for you to play in tune? I don't think it has anything to do with producing a sound... just an adjustment to pitch, other than slide push/pull or lipping it.
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a neat contraption...
...but if you played before/after audio samples, the sound itself would be the same (although the experience for you behind the mouthpiece would be a little easier with the 6th valve).
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a neat contraption...
...but if you played before/after audio samples, the sound itself would be the same (although the experience for you behind the mouthpiece would be a little easier with the 6th valve).
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Trevor Bjorklund
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Re: tuba gimmicks
- Ties, coffee mugs, and bumper stickers with depictions of, or the word "tuba"
- Multiple mouthpiece pouches/cases (including wooden display boxes)
- "special" lint-free cloth
- beer/cup holder that straps onto music stand (or onto the actual tuba, for style)
- books of etudes that are just transposed versions from other brass instruments
- Multiple mouthpiece pouches/cases (including wooden display boxes)
- "special" lint-free cloth
- beer/cup holder that straps onto music stand (or onto the actual tuba, for style)
- books of etudes that are just transposed versions from other brass instruments
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Chuck Jackson
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ken k
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Re: tuba gimmicks
tuba player parking sign
B&H imperial E flat tuba
Mirafone 187 BBb
1919 Pan American BBb Helicon
1924 Buescher BBb tuba (Dr. Suessaphone)
2009 Mazda Miata
1996 Honda Pacific Coast PC800
Mirafone 187 BBb
1919 Pan American BBb Helicon
1924 Buescher BBb tuba (Dr. Suessaphone)
2009 Mazda Miata
1996 Honda Pacific Coast PC800
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Elbee
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Re: tuba gimmicks
Necktie with a tuba on it in living color in defiance of the "all black" dress code...
Loren (4X Rose Parade survivor w a Wurlitzer Sousaphone yet...)
1989 Conn 5J MP changes daily...
Weril H980 Euph Bach 5G clone
1930 Pan American Euph Bach 11C
1989 Conn 5J MP changes daily...
Weril H980 Euph Bach 5G clone
1930 Pan American Euph Bach 11C
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sousaphone68
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Re: tuba gimmicks
Battery powered fairy lights and 3M command strips to attach them to the bell wire for Christmas concert
Cant carry a tune but I can carry a tuba.
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ginnboonmiller
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Re: tuba gimmicks
Day jobs.
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Bob Kolada
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Re: tuba gimmicks
As per post 3, euphoniums. 
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sloan
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Dean E
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Re: tuba gimmicks
Tracht
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[S]tudy politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy . . . in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry [and] music. . . . John Adams (1780)
[S]tudy politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy . . . in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry [and] music. . . . John Adams (1780)
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sloan
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tubatom91
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Re: tuba gimmicks
black o-rings on slides, stainless kellybergs ( I own one too ), Heavyweight mouthpieces ( sadly I have one too ), and of course all of the needless Hetmans products that are all so very similar (slide oil vs. heavy linkage oil)
Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia-Nu Omicron Chapter
Holton 345 BBb 4V
Miraphone 188-5U CC
Meinl-Weston 45S F
Holton 345 BBb 4V
Miraphone 188-5U CC
Meinl-Weston 45S F
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bisontuba
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Re: tuba gimmicks
bloke wrote:
The winner!!!!!
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acjcf2
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Re: tuba gimmicks
+1 on the tuba necktie! Had to have one. 
"Keep Calm and Play Tuba."
Dillon 12915 5/4 BBb
Dillon Olka CB2
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Jupiter 378L, used, beat, and leaky but still plays in tune.
Dillon 12915 5/4 BBb
Dillon Olka CB2
Conn Helleberg 120S
Jupiter 378L, used, beat, and leaky but still plays in tune.
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eupher61
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Re: tuba gimmicks
Cars big enough to hold a tuba and a wife/girlfriend/boyfriend, but not all four.