I am not so sure that reason that the majority of ITEA members are American is just because of the American slant of the association - more the slant reflects the membership.jma78 wrote:Personally, I was a member for several years. A few years ago I quit, though. The main reason was that 95% of the content of every bulletin was about america. I'm not saying that this is bad, but it won't attract more non-american members to ITEA.
Just some thoughts....
It seems to me that there is minimal interest outside America in the tuba in itself by the majority of its players. I am sure most tuba players in the UK, consider themselves "brass band players" (or whatever group they play), rather than "tuba players" - in that their interest is in brass bands rather than tubas. The only exceptions appears to be a few tuba players in orchestras who are the ones which seem to participate on TubeNet.
Why there is the apparent great interest in the tuba (in itself) in the USA and not in say Europe - I wonder?
Jonathan "who thinks TubaChristmas is an example of the TUBA interest in the USA, little found elsewhere in the world"
