your favorite meaningless tuba-playing-related platitude?

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Have we gotten to ""it's not the tuba, it's the player" yet?
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“Ask your teacher!”
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MaryAnn wrote:
Ha. I remember the whole 13 thing but not what 13 IS.


13. Joe is right.

Taken from Doc’s Advice for a Tubenet Newbie. *

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cWEED wrote:who's joe?
Me! :twisted:

(While I do have that name, it's specifically referring to bloke)
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More hot air!

Everyone play louder! Except the tuba.

Oh, you want to be in marching band? You can't march with that oboe/viola/theremin. Here, play this tuba. It's easy.
Our entire marching tuba section in high school was made up of tuba-transfers. I maintain converting the piccolo player did the world a serious favor. The viola player had some serious chops. I was the oboe player. I only wish we had a theremin.
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basslizard wrote:More hot air!
Everyone play louder! Except the tuba.
Oh, you want to be in marching band? You can't march with that oboe/viola/theremin. Here, play this tuba. It's easy.
Our entire marching tuba section in high school was made up of tuba-transfers. I maintain converting the piccolo player did the world a serious favor. The viola player had some serious chops. I was the oboe player. I only wish we had a theremin.

Q: How do you make two oboes play in tune?
A: Transfer one to the tuba section...
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You can do the "B 52" by yourself on the cello. Probably on a string bass as well.

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Charlie C Chowder wrote:You can do the "B 52" by yourself on the cello. Probably on a string bass as well.
On tuba, too, if you sing while you play.
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Remind me, as i am not up on my wwii aircraft...

b52 was the flying fortress? What would their acustically significant features be?

Is that unique BATs where the a is Ameican?

Should we joke about Besson Ebs sounding like a Spitfire?
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Barksdale's B-52 Bombers In Action

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, active service since 1955, last one built 1962 probably going to keep operating for another 30 years. I suppose they're only drawing the line there because they don't like to look forward to an all-over-100-years-old fleet. It's dirty and ugly, but then it isn't carrying a bunch of floral bouquets either.

In terms of tuba sounds, I suspect the idea was more about older propeller driven bombers that would fly over in numbers, with different pitches to their very loud motors. B17, B24 etc.
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