Posted by Alexander Frankfurter on July 26, 2001 at 00:43:45:
In Reply to: Close Encounters of the Tuba Kind posted by Steve Inman on July 25, 2001 at 20:21:34:
Your problem is that your tuba is far too German ("Schnitzelbank" not "Geuzenheit") and the sound is all pointed in one direction. To break glass, you've got to have that trash-can bell thing goin' and get ALL of the sheet rock in the room vibrating enough to put enough tension on the shims around the window frame to first create a stress crack and then, before you know it...POW!!! just like Ella Fitzgerald. btw, you simply cannot do that with Japanese tubas, unless you are willing to settle for breaking grass.