Update Update

[opus37]

So last Sunday I'm playing in the St. Paul Postal Band at a local park. We are playing for the post office worker union picnic. We've played for this event at the location for the last15 years or so. I'm the only tuba (actually helicon) player in a group of about 25. We play for an hour and then get fed. Just after we finished and are putting our stuff away, the local police officer drives up. It turns out we have had a complaint about the noise. It turns out that there is
An ordinance against playing musical instruments, amplified or not amplified, in the park. Well that was a surprise! This group has players from about 30 to 90 years old. The baritone player has an oxygen tank attached to him as he plays. We didn't get a ticket because the officer did not see us playing. But this begs the question, was I exempt from this ordinance because I play the tuba? ( for those a little slow, it implies a tuba is not really a musical instrument). This was a real situation but I'm trying to fine humor in it.

[tbn.al]

Sounds like someone had at least one too many. You are less than hour away from Leinetown aren't you?

[Dan Schultz]

Opening night of Volksfest at Germania Mannerchor Club in Evansville.

[Chadtuba]

So last Sunday I'm playing in the St. Paul Postal Band at a local park. We are playing for the post office worker union picnic. We've played for this event at the location for the last15 years or so. I'm the only tuba (actually helicon) player in a group of about 25. We play for an hour and then get fed. Just after we finished and are putting our stuff away, the local police officer drives up. It turns out we have had a complaint about the noise. It turns out that there is
An ordinance against playing musical instruments, amplified or not amplified, in the park. Well that was a surprise! This group has players from about 30 to 90 years old. The baritone player has an oxygen tank attached to him as he plays. We didn't get a ticket because the officer did not see us playing. But this begs the question, was I exempt from this ordinance because I play the tuba? ( for those a little slow, it implies a tuba is not really a musical instrument). This was a real situation but I'm trying to fine humor in it.

Sounds like fun, I'm sorry I missed this one. Hopefully I'll be there Monday night.

[Jose the tuba player]

2nd time i try selling my sousaphone on craigslist and got the same usual dead beats, scammers,one annoying *** reseller,and one band director who keeps sending me the same email to donate since they only have 14 working instruments for 100+ kids.

[windshieldbug]

there is
an ordinance against playing musical instruments, amplified or not amplified, in the park.

What about OPERATING any musical instruments?
Were there any violas there!?

[bort]

Next year, you guys should perform John Cage's "Four minutes and thirty-three seconds." Maybe play it a few times. That'll show 'em.

[alfredr]

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I just saw a Volvo wagon much like that a week or two ago.

But I don't know how to get the image in here.

[k001k47]

Some people here "consider" selling their tubas.

I'm just not that sophisticated...I just "plain-ol' " sell mine...

Some people also "consider" buying -- which is a bit more frustrating.

[Donn]

Put them together, and it could be a beautiful thing!

[OldsRecording]

I got nothin'.

I've got plenty of nothin'.

Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.

[tbn.al]

I got nothin'.

I've got plenty of nothin'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVMOcPeBcNw" target="_blank

[emcallaway]

If I leave my posts by the door after the BBS has closed for the night will you submit them for me when you open again in the morning?

[Jose the tuba player]

Quite alot of olds jr sousaphones have been popping up here in Los Angeles to bad all the resellers here know each other so they have set prices at 3K.(so much for competition between businesses).

[Jose the tuba player]

I wonder if they are real, or if they have all seen your WTB ad and are trying to work scams.

I doubt it but it'd be nice to just find a simple cheap one for a good price.

[SplatterTone]

Recent news is that USPS lost $2,000,000,000. My mailbox is positioned on a post with an arm that reaches across the ditch to put the box at a distance and height for best convenience for the mailman. The neighbor's box is about 8 feet back from the road next to his driveway, which is entirely within regulations for this area. So ... the mailman just puts the neighbor's mail in my box and leaves it to me to transfer it to my neighbor's box. Oh yeah, and the USPS lost $2,000,000,000.

[SplatterTone]

No farting for 24 hours !

The 33rd episode of Southpark proves that fart retention results in the spontaneous combustion of you.

[bort]

Recent news is that USPS lost $2,000,000,000. My mailbox is positioned on a post with an arm that reaches across the ditch to put the box at a distance and height for best convenience for the mailman. The neighbor's box is about 8 feet back from the road next to his driveway, which is entirely within regulations for this area. So ... the mailman just puts the neighbor's mail in my box and leaves it to me to transfer it to my neighbor's box. Oh yeah, and the USPS lost $2,000,000,000.

You should play dumb... hold onto the mail or a week, return it all to the post office, and say you've been receiving someone else's mail.

[tbn.al]

I like yard work. That is why I still do my own although everyone else in my neighborhood hires it out. I spent 6 hours today doing yard work that I had been putting off more than a week due to rain. I hate yard work. You have been updated.

[bearphonium]

I am back after a lovely trip to Germany (to visit family and drink beer) and Scotland (to visit friends and drink Scotch and beer). I survived rehearsal last night as we prepare for a dedication ceremony in Springfield, OR for a "Simpsons" mural. I didn't lose as much as I had feared I would, and the god-awful travel bug that arrived 36 hours after my return to the states had abated enough to let me play.