Re: Do you double?


[ Follow Ups ] [ Post Followup ] [ TubeNet BBS ] [ FAQ ]

Posted by Zac on December 11, 2001 at 16:52:45:

In Reply to: Do you double? posted by Lonny on December 11, 2001 at 14:36:47:

I feel your pain. I started on string bass in elementary school. Played in the orchestra in Jr. High and switched to the band my freshman year in high school. Only problem I didn't know how to play a band instrument. My band director Mr. Steve Mathews thought it would be great to have a string bass in the wind ensemble and did what most directors would do with a student who couldn't play a wind instrument during marching season...he put me in the drum line. At the end of the school year he asked me if I would be interested in playing the tuba..our tuba player was a senior. I took it home that summer and taught myself the fingerings and started a love affair that continues this day. Through college and my Marine bands time I played both. When people asktell me what instrument I played I tell them "My main axe is tuba...but I make money playing bass" Most of my students are bass players. Oh yeah and of course I will play trombone but only on a real "B" gig.

FWIW that's my story

Zac
Zac


Follow Ups: