Of course, you could always play this:



About a quarter to a third of the brass parts are scored for mouthpiece out buzzing . . . .

I have a stray carpet sample that I set my horn on. Gives a flatter, cleaner surface pess apt to scratch anything.

Our last performance of the 2026 summer season . . . we are not professionals, but I really feel that the band has come together well this year.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?ref=watch_permalink&v=1066646269284665

(Starts at about 13:00 . . .)

This was supposed to be an outdoor, but it ...

Played a benefit last night in a clasic old theatre circa 1900. Acoustically amazing, but no AC, it it was very atypically hot here (95 degrees!) so not ideal playing conditions. Did a nice job though, and streamed it if anyone is curious. https://www.youtube.com/live/bbCyJEd5N6A (The video is a bit ...

Still won't getcha upstream though . . .

Sometimes, my own brain amazes (and aomewhat shocks me). Playing a concert in a local park recently, and one of our "poppy" numbers was "Abba on Broadway" . . .

Well, at some point, when into "Mama Mia" my brain spontaneously offered the lyrics "Diarrhea . . . . gotta go again . . . "

It's hard ...

bloke wrote: Mon Jun 22, 2026 6:29 pm Also, a button is a paddle and a paddle is a button.

Mashing is depressing... but only when something's too hard.

Really? I'd love to see you button a canoe upstream!

The FIeld museum is one of my favorite places int he world to visit. I like it because it is mostly still an old school museum where you read the little tag and look at what is in the case.

I have a fulls set of the Wax Mold Dinosaurs.. both the vintage ones and the newer designs

https ...

jose the tuba player wrote: Sat Jun 06, 2026 5:12 pm https://ebay.io/m/J6HNMk
Do it.

That looks like someone took a revolver cyclinder, gaudily plated it, and then mated it with a mouthpiece in a very unnatural way.

Woof!

The texture could be OK, but other than perhaps at Mardi Gras, that color isn't "doing it" for me!

The "other" Shake Weight?

I don't refer to it as "Artificial Imbecile" without reason . . .

One of the more odd things I've played . . . we did a first read of "Symphony #1 in Memoriam Dresden 1945" last night . . .

prodigal wrote: Mon Apr 20, 2026 7:45 pmPanzertuben?

The smartass in me concluded that if I played opera, I could, at times, refer to it as "Panzer Faust"

(It's the bomb!)

Perhaps we have revealed evidence that the Germans, ever practical as they can be, came up with a "Young Scholars" parts line, made from 70 percent "normal" brass alloyed with 30 percent old Panzer armor. :laugh:

Two birds, one stone!

(Oh, and the mouthpiece "wobble" was pretty minor to begin ...

950 miles, actually, but close enough for either horseshoes or hand grenades. :laugh:

Ironically, with this trip, cost me about 100 more miles that we would have gone anyhow. Milwaukee/Chicago (likely next closest - we make Williston look outright "urban" in terms of proximity to anything "large ...

When somebody says they play the recorder, I would probably ask them whether it's tape or digital.


Ironically, back in 6th grade music (in classroom, 1 hr a week or so), they presented us with "recorders" . . . My Dad had just gotten a pretty nice tape recorder, and I was amazed (albeit briefly ...

The only thing I can think of that we discussed that I didn't see mentioned was that tiny ding in the receiver that fights with solidly seating the mouthpiece.

And glad to see that not everything is a disaster area to work on!

My thanks and appreciation to all in the "chain of custody" for the keel! I'll give it a good home!

And you deprived me from naming it "lard ass" ("lead ass"? "Iron butt"?) . . . Oh the angst . . . What will I ever do?

Ugh! Sorry . . .

(Probably explains why my local guy with limited tooling gave up on that though . . . )