Tuba and Euphonium Conference on Cruise Ship

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To be clear, it was the sound that had the owners of the mall nervous. I don't think they had any idea what a few hundred tubas can sound like when they are enthusiastic.
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Posaune2 wrote:This idea reminds me of a news story I read a few years ago. Seems a German couple booked a romantic cruise to celebrate an anniversary. The cruise ship company neglected to tell them that most of the ship had been booked for a convention of Swiss yodelers. The couple won a substantial cash settlement for the physical and emotional distress of being forced to listen to ten days or so of yodeling at all hours of the day and night.

I can only imagine the horror of a similar scenario with tubas substituted for yodelers.
Ship load of yodelers + ship load of booze = :shock: + Image + Image
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We could get more than we bargained for...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/co ... 00604.html" target="_blank
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If worse comes to worse, we tubas could do as the orchestra on the titanic-------play on deck as ship goes down----Maybe "Them Bases".
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Just think how fast the time would pass on that Carnival ship off San Diago with various Tuba and Euphonium concerts going on 24/7. I too like a little adventure in my life-----Let's Roll.
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I was watching some "cruise chat" about the Carnival Cruise disaster--------It turns out that as the ship was loading and getting ready for departure, longshoremen droped 30 people's lugage into the ocean------They were issued bathrobes to wear. Along with the later disaster, that trip was a loser. If there was an ITEC gig on board-----that could have been 30 tubas into the waves.
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