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Donn · Post by **Donn** » Mon May 29, 2017 10:13 pm

My only personal experience with something that seemed to work was diatomaceous earth. Not applied on purpose, rather the cat chose to sleep on a bale of the stuff in an attached shed, and probably punctured the plastic cover enough that it was getting dusted a bit all the time. Seemed to have no flea troubles. The stuff is hard on insects, and that particular situation probably made the most of it - a flea that jumped off onto that plastic cover couldn't possibly get around the silica fragments.

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Fri Jun 02, 2017 12:41 pm

I'd play that!!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 10:37 am

bloke wrote:feel free to contact me any time

I've always wondered how they tune a triangle. Do they use the same method for other polyhedrons?

opus37 · Post by **opus37** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 2:56 pm

windshieldbug wrote:
bloke wrote:feel free to contact me any time

I've always wondered how they tune a triangle. Do they use the same method for other polyhedrons?

It's all in the angle (and a fine file.)

opus37 · Post by **opus37** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 2:59 pm

bloke wrote:I would like to officially announce that I've signed on with myself as a blokepiece artiste.
If you have any questions about playing 1 - 5 - 1 - 5 - 1 - 5, whole notes, counting rests, "how out-of-tune is just too much", what to do during the time when most-anything-written-before-1850 is being rehearsed/performed, navigating those mysterious Indian double-belled sousaphones, how to snag that extra-$800/yr. per-service orch. librarian job, or even topics such as "community band medleys and arrangements written during the hip-hop generation and beyond", feel free to contact me any time.
I'm also available to hold masterclasses on these - as well as other topics - at your institutions of higher learning or symposia.

Thank-you.

I'd like to sign up too. I have 3 mouthpieces and a bunch of rims and I am a professional. (My city band pays us $2 a practice and $3 a performance so I usually get a check for about $50 for the summer). So, do I now get a bumper sticker to put on my tuba case?

pwhitaker · Post by **pwhitaker** » Sat Jun 03, 2017 5:30 pm

opus37 wrote:
windshieldbug wrote:
bloke wrote:feel free to contact me any time

I've always wondered how they tune a triangle. Do they use the same method for other polyhedrons?
It's all in the angle (and a fine file.)

You need a lot of money to fine tune a pentagon.

Heavy_Metal · Post by **Heavy_Metal** » Sun Jun 04, 2017 1:13 pm

bloke wrote:I would like to officially announce that I've signed on with myself as a blokepiece artiste.
If you have any questions about playing 1 - 5 - 1 - 5 - 1 - 5, whole notes, counting rests, "how out-of-tune is just too much", what to do during the time when most-anything-written-before-1850 is being rehearsed/performed, navigating those mysterious Indian double-belled sousaphones, how to snag that extra-$800/yr. per-service orch. librarian job, or even topics such as "community band medleys and arrangements written during the hip-hop generation and beyond", feel free to contact me any time.
I'm also available to hold masterclasses on these - as well as other topics - at your institutions of higher learning or symposia.

Thank-you.

But is that gonna get you onto that first Google "Tuba Artiste" hit?

opus37 · Post by **opus37** » Wed Jun 28, 2017 12:00 pm

So I took my Bubbie 5 to community band practice last night and it was a hit. I play with another tuba player so I'm kind of an assist to the sound. They could hear me across the band and they liked it. Our concert is in a band shell outdoors. The tubas sit in the back so the shell really helps our sound project. I'm thinking on using the Bubbie in the next concert. Normally I play a 1912 Martin with this band of 40 pieces.

opus37 · Post by **opus37** » Fri Jun 30, 2017 3:28 pm

opus37 wrote:So I took my Bubbie 5 to community band practice last night and it was a hit. I play with another tuba player so I'm kind of an assist to the sound. They could hear me across the band and they liked it. Our concert is in a band shell outdoors. The tubas sit in the back so the shell really helps our sound project. I'm thinking on using the Bubbie in the next concert. Normally I play a 1912 Martin with this band of 40 pieces.

Well it worked out ok. The tuba sound for the band was noticeably less than normal. I will go back to my Martin for sound presence. However, it was a fun experiment.

roweenie · Post by **roweenie** » Sun Jul 02, 2017 12:54 pm

The word "tuba" appears to be part of that young lady's name (I gather she's Turkish).

https://m.facebook.com/TubaBuyukustun/" target="_blank

roweenie "not an artiste, just a foot soldier slogging it out in the trenches"

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 12:42 pm

When playing in five flats, I'd prefer a fourth valve in the 2,3 combo instead of the 1,3.

What can be done about this??

Discuss...

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:01 pm

bloke wrote:
Three Valves wrote:When playing in five flats, I'd prefer a fourth valve in the 2,3 combo instead of the 1,3.

What can be done about this??

Discuss...
What's a "fourth valve" ?

One on the tuba next to "Three Valves"...

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:47 pm

This may sound crazy, but I'm convinced my wife's shopping/googling cookies are showing up in my facebook and other on line ad placement (like here)

That chick is a little more adventurous than she's let on!!

opus37 · Post by **opus37** » Thu Jul 06, 2017 5:05 pm

Three Valves wrote:This may sound crazy, but I'm convinced my wife's shopping/googling cookies are showing up in my facebook and other on line ad placement (like here)

That chick is a little more adventurous than she's let on!!

Maybe she's checking up on you internet activity.

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:15 am

She actually bought me a cell phone as a gift!!

So she can keep tabs on me.

Some "gift!!"

Three Valves · Post by **Three Valves** » Fri Jul 07, 2017 1:21 pm

You actually call people on your phone??

BAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahha!!

Donn · Post by **Donn** » Fri Jul 07, 2017 6:51 pm

I believe I got mine for more like $100, and it's a smart phone - indeed a near genius - but a couple key corollaries to its economy are 1) I hardly use it, and 2) more importantly, I don't have "data." There's very little logging in to that/that, connecting to this/this, because that works only when I have wifi - so no depending on it for navigation for example. But I doubt it costs me $20 a year.

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Fri Jul 07, 2017 11:25 pm

Three Valves wrote:She actually bought me a cell phone as a gift!!

So she can keep tabs on me.

Some "gift!!"

'gift' in the German translation means 'poison'.

Heavy_Metal · Post by **Heavy_Metal** » Sat Jul 08, 2017 9:26 pm

bloke wrote:I want my flip-phone back. It was a helluva lot "smarter" (at least more polite and obedient) than an iPhone, and did what it was told: answered and made phone calls.

As of a few months ago, the local AT&T store still had flip phones. LG, IIRC.

bisontuba · Post by **bisontuba** » Sun Jul 09, 2017 2:09 pm

Hi-
I got rid of my iPhone after I realized my iPad does everything the iPhone did. Went back to a flip phone ( T-Mobile)-and really like my 'dumb' phone. End of this month, I cut the cord and will have FIOS internet, an amplified HDTV antenna and ROKU...
Mark

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