What do YOU think about TUBAS ?

[bisontuba]

I prefer onebas or threebas ......

[The Big Ben]

Tubas. I'm in favor of them.

[Dan Schultz]

I like tubas because I can make big fart noises with them.

[Heavy_Metal]

...which begs the question:
How can someone distinguish a "tuba player" from a "baritone horn player"?

The "baritone horn player" asks if you want fries with that?

[edsel585960]

I love tubas. I'm your typical jumbo sized tuba player. I went to high school with a guy that was about 95 lbs who played tuba. God bless Eric, we were marching in a very stiff midwestern wind one year and it blew him over sousaphone and all. Good player though for a little guy.

[bearphonium]

I like tubas. I'd like more tubas.
I like most other tuba players.
Tubas are cool. I wish my sousaphone had lights like Schleppy's.

[hubert]

My six brothers, who once upon a time all played some smaller piece of brass called a musical instrument in our community band, never stopped telling me that tubas are for the blockheads.
I never stopped telling them what fantastic feeling it was to play the tuba and dominate them from the back row
Hubert

[Charlie C Chowder]

Today is the annual Candle Lighter's Christmas Party for kids with cancer. For over twenty years I have clowned for it. For the last few years, I set up a bunch of instruments for the kids to try. I have a lot of musical toys. One of the kids just loves the fart sound he can make with the trombone. The tuba is very popular with the smallest kids.

After denting my slide on my trombone, I got moved to a sousaphone. Being the shortest kid in class, it was like climbing into a tank. Feet did not reach the floor. I had problems reaching 7th position on the trombone. But I could reach all of the controls of this brass monster. Not being able to take horn and chair home to practice, I came in early before school. I learn to love it, playing up though two years in college on school horns. After transferring to a four year, I stopped playing as I did not have my own horn. And my major was biology. I still had the need to make music, so I pick up the classical guitar. I joined the navy to dodge the draft, Vietnam. Many years later after a divorce and becoming a clown, somebody said lets start a clown band. I now had the ability to buy a sousaphone of my own. The band never happen, but I rediscovered the thrill of playing tuba. I pay around with a lot of musical toys now, on my own, hiding most of the time. Once a year, I join the Portland, OR TubaChristmas. It is easy to hide my sound with with two to three hundred tubas.


I love making music. I love doing it on all of my toys. But that big brass tank that I crawled into all of those many years ago has a special place in my heart. I now own seven, Eb and BBb, Heli, Suosy, up rights and recording. I do not need but want more. At least one more. I can find room for it some where.

Charlie C. Chowder

[bort]

I try not to think about it. It makes it a little easier to accept the reality of it all.

[TubaPresident]

I only have to words to say about what I think of tubas. "Oom" and "pah"

[bearphonium]

Today is the annual Candle Lighter's Christmas Party for kids with cancer. For over twenty years I have clowned for it. For the last few years, I set up a bunch of instruments for the kids to try. I have a lot of musical toys. One of the kids just loves the fart sound he can make with the trombone. The tuba is very popular with the smallest kids.

After denting my slide on my trombone, I got moved to a sousaphone. Being the shortest kid in class, it was like climbing into a tank. Feet did not reach the floor. I had problems reaching 7th position on the trombone. But I could reach all of the controls of this brass monster. Not being able to take horn and chair home to practice, I came in early before school. I learn to love it, playing up though two years in college on school horns. After transferring to a four year, I stopped playing as I did not have my own horn. And my major was biology. I still had the need to make music, so I pick up the classical guitar. I joined the navy to dodge the draft, Vietnam. Many years later after a divorce and becoming a clown, somebody said lets start a clown band. I now had the ability to buy a sousaphone of my own. The band never happen, but I rediscovered the thrill of playing tuba. I pay around with a lot of musical toys now, on my own, hiding most of the time. Once a year, I join the Portland, OR TubaChristmas. It is easy to hide my sound with with two to three hundred tubas.


I love making music. I love doing it on all of my toys. But that big brass tank that I crawled into all of those many years ago has a special place in my heart. I now own seven, Eb and BBb, Heli, Suosy, up rights and recording. I do not need but want more. At least one more. I can find room for it some where.

Charlie C. Chowder

If all goes well this year, I will be at Portland's Tuba Christmas with a Helicon.

[imperialbari]

Tuba related recycling:

What’s the bore of a tuba?

The one on the meaty side of the mouthpiece.

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Weissmüller-style low-brass talk:

Me Tuba! You Phonium!

[tofu]

That we are a discriminated against looked down upon minority group. We should organize mass protests of our perceived mistreatment by assembling in public areas and disrupting holiday shopping by playing Christmas songs.

Oh wait...that's TubaChristmas

[hup_d_dup]

Shortly after switching from trumpet to tuba my wife and I took a trip to the Tuba-Euphonium conference at Ft. Myer. After walking through the exhibit hall she said "don't get fat."

Hup

[Tubajug]

I admit, I really like tubas...

I've owned a 3/4 (Yamaha YBB-103), 7/8 (Bach 869), and 4/4 (King 2341 [current horn] and Miraphone 186). I've always wanted to try a 6/4 (maybe a Holton 345, like bloke's satin silver one!)

Since discovering this site six years ago, I've learned quite a bit about tubas and have been brave enough to learn some repair stuff and was able to resurrect an old Eb into playing condition mostly on my own.

So, in conclusion, I really like tubas. I would like to someday own more tubas. Like a helicon and/or raincatcher.

That is all.

[Three Valves]

Tuba is a really cool instrument. It's really big. Tuba playing is fun. I like the tuba.

I wonder if that could be converted to Dr. Seuss...(??)

"...There's one thing I hate all the noise, noise, noise. And they'll make shrieks and squeels racing round on their wheels, they'll dance with ting-tinglers tied on to their heels. They'll blow their blue-toopers, they'll bang their ta-tinkers. They'll blow their Who-whoopers, they'll bang their gar-dinkers. They'll beat their drum-dinkers, they'll slam their slew-slumpers. They'll beat their flung-floopers, they'll slam their who-wunkers. And they'll play noisy games like zoo-zinger-car-zay -- a roller skate kind of lacrosse and croquet. Then they'll make ear splitting noises galooks on their great big electro-who-cardio-shnoox."

[PaulMaybery]

Me thinks there may be a comparison that has yet to be addressed. Particularly with regard to newer, smooth and shiny tubas, there is a suggestion that there may be an erotic parallel to tubas: the way we stare at them, admire their curves, hold them in our arms and on our laps, and the way we bring it to our mouths, and how it causes our respiration to accelerate. I suppose this would be somewhat of a Freudian view of things. But, on the other hand, to paraphrase the good Dr. Freud, "Sometimes a tuba is just a tuba."
Paul "who has way too much crap rattling around in his brain" Maybery

[tbn.al]

How can someone distinguish a "tuba player" from a "baritone horn player"?

That guy plays trombone and you damned well know it.

Watch yourself there Robert. You have to sit next to trombones a lot. Just sayin'.

[edsel585960]

What do I think about tubas? I think you're all a bunch of drunks!

That's the whole point of playing Oktoberfest.

[opus37]

I have retired a number of years ago and have taken up tuba playing in ernest. I play in 3 bands and a quintet. I also play in a 30 piece semi-pro orchestra for a Christmas Pageant. These groups play at church, assisted living homes and community gatherings. Last night, after a concert, a little girl came up to me and wanted me to play a little something for her on my helicon. She was thrilled to touch something she had only seen and heard on Veggie Tales. I practice almost every day and find it very relaxing and enjoyable. I currently have 8 tubas, sousaphones and helicons (with one more on order). They seem to just show up at my door. So tuba for me, is playing, collecting, and bringing enjoyment to others. It's a hobby and a way of sharing with others. What more can anyone ask.