Top Ten Worst Tuba Players

[tubahero300]

What is the point of this list?

+1. seriously, why are we pointing out other people who arent the best, seriously who cares!

[Biggs]

What is the point of this list?

+1. seriously, why are we pointing out other people who arent the best, seriously who cares!

As an avowed competitively-bad tuba player, I can assure you, sir, that I most certainly care.

[Biggs]

seriously, why are we pointing out other people who arent the best, seriously who cares!

As an avowed competitively-bad tuba player, I can assure you, sir, that I most certainly care.

Don't be jealous that you didn't make the list.

[PMeuph]

What is the point of this list?

+1. seriously, why are we pointing out other people who arent the best, seriously who cares!

Maybe it was suppose to be satire of the claim that people make that there is such a "top 10 best players" list out there. Maybe that was the op's point. Maybe, Kathott just felt like joining in on the whole trolling thing that seems to happen sometimes....

[fairweathertuba]

Anyone who plays "Snake Pit" should definitely be on the list.

[Bob Sadler]

PM seems to have identified the real difference between Canadians and Americans

Bob "surely in the OP's top 5" Sadler

[Biggs]

I'm not sure who qualifies for the best or the worst... But I hear that Erik von Schterick is the world's loudest tuba player.

only you and I know this reference, Charles...

Hold the phone, gents! I'm the owner of multiple Don Martin volumes!

[TUBAD83]

Hi, I'm compiling a list of the *Top Ten Worst Tuba Players of all time.
Whilst considering, factor in abysmal past performances (live or recorded),
contrived or needlessly esoteric phrasing, crazy choices for equipment,
quack teaching philosophies and so on.
Thank you,
Kathott

* Please do not include performers from Baltic countries.

Kathott,

No self respecting competent tubist (be they world class professional or local amateur) would participate in creating such a list. Its totally ridiculous--why worry about listing the worst at anything? You would do well to learn from the those who are accomplished and have been performing and teaching for a long period time. With respect, the post reflects poorly on you.

JJ

[Kevin Hendrick]

That's fabulous, Wade.

After that, I seem to recall multiple frames of the-guy-who-had-been-stuck-in-the-tuba passing through various rooms, various cities, various countries, etc...

Check out the Eric Von Schteric post in clipart for the whole story. My favorite is the packaged, hot, wet, fertilizer department. But then again, I'm a big fan of the poop jokes.

Thanks for the warning -- we'll stand well back (knowing what happens when those jokes hit a fan) ...

[Michael Bush]

Hi, I'm compiling a list of the *Top Ten Worst Tuba Players of all time.
Whilst considering, factor in abysmal past performances (live or recorded),
contrived or needlessly esoteric phrasing, crazy choices for equipment,
quack teaching philosophies and so on.
Thank you,
Kathott

* Please do not include performers from Baltic countries.

Kathott,

No self respecting competent tubist (be they world class professional or local amateur) would participate in creating such a list. Its totally ridiculous--why worry about listing the worst at anything? You would do well to learn from the those who are accomplished and have been performing and teaching for a long period time. With respect, the post reflects poorly on you.
JJ

Dude, he's joking. This is tubenet, remember?

[PMeuph]

Dude, he's joking. This is tubenet, remember?

+1

I love it when people make comments about playing ability based on hat people write online....

[imperialbari]

Dude, he's joking. This is tubenet, remember?

Yup, the great fun of stuffing silk stockings!

[brassbow]

As I am both a trumpter and a tubist, I can say this proves tubists have a greater sence of Humor. If this was on a trumpet forum, well let's just say satan would be leaving hell as it would be found to be a bit chilly by comparison

[Michael Bush]

Yup, the great fun of stuffing silk stockings!

This phrase leaves me flummoxed whenever you use it, Klaus, because it must derive from the last interaction between Napoleon and the guy who inspired my user name, with whom I obviously feel some affinity. Even though you are a great man, you certainly do not have bad manners,* so I never quite know what to say!



*Because Talleyrand's response to the silk stocking comment was, roughly, "What a pity that so great a man has such bad manners."

[imperialbari]

This thread is about fouling our own nest, which we shouldn't do.

Not that I am holier than holy myself. In another forum I reported about a player of some international fame, who in a very exposed solo situation did what is a very big no-no in my book: breathing during a cadential trill. For the members of that forum that players reputation was more important than his actual playing, so they went mad at me (which I apparently survived).

You called this thread a joke in the spirit of TubeNet. I didn't comment by means of the saying on top of this post, but twisted a famous quote to say the same thing.

Some players have linked to very bad samples of their own playing. I don't think they should have done that, but I stay away from posting in those threads.

Klaus