Thomas!ThomasDodd wrote:
Touché
Actually I love such ping-ponging. I just have had one on a private basis with a top notch US euph soloist. He kindly has publicised the result in another tuba related context.
The Norwegian Tubaforum is run in an unbelievably intelligent way by a young tubist hardly out of high-school. Actually on the same software as the TubeNet applies.
We are members from 3 countries writing in each our own language.
One member is a very talented, but smallish, 15 years old boy often appearing as soloist on his Besson 983 Eb tuba.
But he wrote a terrible Norwegian. I very often scolded him for that, because it could be a career hindrance for him.
The wise web-master wrote me privately to calm down a bit on that matter, which I did.
But today the youngster thanks me for having improved his Norwegian remarkably. A funny situation, as I am a retired Danish teacher, who cannot write Norwegian myself, not even speak it. But I most certainly can read it in most of its many variants.
Today the young talent is the most frequent poster. You may guess who the runner up is.
One wonderful thing with the Norsk Tubaforum is, that postings containing elements about music in general, culture, history, literature, linguistics, and humour are not considered off-topic. But then our 3 countries share a history being at least 2 millenniums old. And we all know, that a real tuba player needs a bit more than the knowledge of his/hers fingerings.
Klaus
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