Have you ever locked your tuba to a toilet?

Dylan King · Post by **Dylan King** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 11:22 pm

I haven't.

But I have used a rubber coated bicycle lock to secure the top bow to a hotel room radiator. I was wondering if anyone has done something similar?

Chuck(G) · Post by **Chuck(G)** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:02 am

Somehow, I can't even begin to imagine the same conversation starting up on the flute list...

dmmorris · Post by **dmmorris** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:28 am

Sounds like an invitation to visit your repairman!

I'd recomend "no".

clagar777 · Post by **clagar777** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:40 am

No, but I would sure like to be able to lock my case.

Tom Holtz · Post by **Tom Holtz** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 9:26 am

JohnH wrote:I wouldn't put my tuba in the same room with a toilet. What if you get up in the middle of the night, you're half asleep, you don't cut the light on....

Good point. However, I've wondered about how to keep the horn secure while traveling. I'm generally not too uptight about leaving stuff in hotel rooms. I know lots of folks have been burned before, but after a few national tours' worth of hotel rooms, I'm pretty complacent. Still, when you've got a $$$ horn in a strange city, and you want a little extra security, chaining the horn to the plumbing may not sound too far-fetched.

Monty · Post by **Monty** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 12:47 pm

This reminds of the time I got arrested on the way to a gig.
Cops had me in cuffs in the car and started trying to take apart the old king. I kept telling them they werent going about it right. ( bell was kind of tight)
Finally they let me out of the car- in cuffs- while one pulled on the bell and one held the other side- I straddled the body and coached them through...They then took my tuba to "Evidence"...

....Youre probably wondering - I had a busted out tail light and had forgotten my wallet.. La requires them to take you in.

Anyway... I first related this story on the Flute list....

Before that.... The truck with the busted tail light was my landscape truck - I didnt have a case so I would secure my horn in a towel and pack it in mulch... once I put a pine tree through the middle.... was purty.

porkchopsisgood · Post by **porkchopsisgood** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 1:06 pm

Monty wrote:This reminds of the time I got arrested on the way to a gig.
Cops had me in cuffs in the car and started trying to take apart the old king. I kept telling them they werent going about it right. ( bell was kind of tight)
Finally they let me out of the car- in cuffs- while one pulled on the bell and one held the other side- I straddled the body and coached them through...They then took my tuba to "Evidence"...

....Youre probably wondering - I had a busted out tail light and had forgotten my wallet.. La requires them to take you in.

Anyway... I first related this story on the Flute list....

Before that.... The truck with the busted tail light was my landscape truck - I didnt have a case so I would secure my horn in a towel and pack it in mulch... once I put a pine tree through the middle.... was purty.

It's probably too much to ask that you made all of that up? hehehehe

Wow.

I don't worry about my horns too much in a hotel, but if I had the investment some of you guys have I would certainly chain my instrument to something secure in the room. Good idea, I'd say.

Of course, that's in no way a deterrent to what WILL happen when the criminal realizes he can't take your horn to the pawn shop. I figure a size 12 to the bell a couple of times would probably do it.....

Mark E. Chachich · Post by **Mark E. Chachich** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 2:46 pm

I used to use the same technique to secure my tuba in motel rooms and still would.

When I used to travel with my tuba and stayed at motels (on the road, auditions, whatever) I would lock my tuba to something in the room such as a radiator, bed frame or coat hanger bar. Like you, I used a plastic coated bicycle cabel lock.

Mark

Dan Schultz · Post by **Dan Schultz** » Mon Aug 29, 2005 3:02 pm

I've heard the story about a very famous tuba player (not suggesting any names here) puking down the bell of his tuba during a commuter train ride. Can anyone confirm it?

tubeast · Post by **tubeast** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 5:28 pm

I had to store two (!) tubas on my travel to ITEC at Budapest last year. One to take along to the convention, the other one had just been purchased on my way there and was to be left at the train station. (I didnÂ´t really care to leave those in the trunc of my car back then) I had to spend a couple of hours in town to wait for the train to Hungary,and only one of the two was to accompany me to the ITEC. Kept both of them (and my luggage) in one of the train stationÂ´s bike lockers in Salzburg, Austria. Cost me about 5 â‚¬ for the week and would have had provided space for another two horns, at least. The lockers were guarded by cameras, so I felt pretty safe.
Plus, burglars will look for certain items (Jewelry, expensive clothing or make-up, fancy bags...) and a tuba doesnÂ´t really fit those categories.

Tubainsauga · Post by **Tubainsauga** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 6:41 pm

What about locking two tubas in walt johnson cases together. If you did it right, it would be near impossible to move.

tofu · Post by **tofu** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:49 pm

Pedalocity wrote:
JohnH wrote:I wouldn't put my tuba in the same room with a toilet. What if you get up in the middle of the night, you're half asleep, you don't cut the light on....

The guy that wrote "Tuba: Views from the back row" told me an old story about Bill Bell, peeing into the bell of his tuba during a concert with NY. Phil. He said the stinch was ridiculous, and the whole back row was rolling on the floor laughing. If I remeber right, he was playing a huge Conn, recording, bell front model tuba.

Who knew -- the Tuba was the original Porta-Potie!!!

I guess when the conductor asks "whats that crap coming out of your horn" the return question will have to be "can you define what you mean by crap?"

Kevin Hendrick · Post by **Kevin Hendrick** » Mon Sep 05, 2005 12:22 am

Pedalocity wrote:The guy that wrote "Tuba: Views from the back row" told me an old story about Bill Bell, peeing into the bell of his tuba during a concert with NY. Phil. He said the stinch was ridiculous, and the whole back row was rolling on the floor laughing. If I remeber right, he was playing a huge Conn, recording, bell front model tuba.

Bet that evening really whizzed by!

GC · Post by GC » Mon Sep 05, 2005 9:18 pm

Have I locked my tuba to a toilet?

No.

Have I mistaken it for a toilet?

No.

Have other people mistaken my tone for toilet noises?

Well . . .

Jeff Miller · Post by **Jeff Miller** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 6:44 pm

JohnH wrote:I wouldn't put my tuba in the same room with a toilet. What if you get up in the middle of the night, you're half asleep, you don't cut the light on....

Well, you could always go ahead an do that in your tuba yourself. Then no one would want to steal it.

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Sat Sep 10, 2005 10:50 pm

Heard the same bathroom story about a shiny saxaphone.
I was on the road two years with a 1960 Gibson archtop and a Fender Super Six amp. I worried about losing the guitar because it was a good player. My tuba was not very expensive but I would hate to lose it because it is a good player too. Even more I would hate to have to explain the loss of either to my wife.

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