Tuba Collection on NPR Morning Edition

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Tuba Collection on NPR Morning Edition

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NPR's Morning Edition had a brief article on the V&E Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection in Durham, N.C., this morning:

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/30/491068442 ... a-lieve-it" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

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I heard this on the way to school this morning! I was so surprised. I thought it did a fair shake of covering the historical, musical and comedic aspects of the tuba in a brief crash course format.
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When I saw the picture on his website, my first thoughts were "how does he keep track of all of these tubas?". My wife's reaction was "who dusts those things?"
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DonShirer wrote:"how does he keep track of all of these tubas?"

You know the story:
One day he was late for work, forgot to lock the door, and left his tuba out.
When he returned, sure enough, the whole house was filled with tubas...
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So many tubas, so little time.................
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Heavy_Metal wrote:So many tubas, so little time.................
...says the man with 6 tubas. :)
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proam wrote:NPR's Morning Edition had a brief article on the V&E Simonetti Historic Tuba Collection in Durham, N.C., this morning:

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/30/491068442 ... a-lieve-it" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

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