Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Extinction of the Tuba Section!


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Posted by js on October 03, 2003 at 12:24:01:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Extinction of the Tuba Section! posted by Rick Denney on October 02, 2003 at 13:52:20:

"whose school musical needs were met with a plastic sousaphone and a 15-year-old uniform"

Funny. I don't remember seeing you at my high school...???

I finally ended up with a "concert" tuba in the 12th grade by pulling an old leaky-valved King 2340 3V tuba out of the "junk" room, beating the dents out of the bell stack with a large metal spoon, sorta straightening out the detachable upright bell with a maple rolling pin, Brasso-ing remaining lacquer off the bell, applying brush-on lacquer, and swapping out a couple of the pistons with a "graveyard" King sousaphone - also in the "junk" room.

Towards the end of that same year, after everyone in our section made the All-State Band, the Music Supervisor the the school system decided to send us one of those little Mirafone 3/4 3-piston top-action (model 1270?) tubas, and a Reynolds 3/4 3-piston (TB-10) tuba.


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