Well, let's see... the second one is "Old Hundred", and the last one is "Ville du Havre". Or, going by their titles, "Praise God from whom All Blessings Flow" and "It is Well with my Soul"................

Well, if CN now owns IC, they'll have to change the reference to IC in the first verse of "City of New Orleans":

Good luck with the performance, @tclements .

How about posting some video from the performances?

tclements , I had to Google the piece, not being familiar with it, and this came up. This looks to be available as a digital download, or maybe you could expedite shipping:

https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/benedetto-marcello/sonata-no-1-in-f-tuba-piano/MN0167772?iso=US&utm_source=google&utm ...

The pigeons' reaction is not recorded:

That's a bit older than mine. Should play well once that huge dent is removed.

@Kontrabasstuba does an excellent job again:

Well, Seattle did this a few years ago.................



Should be similar opportunities there.

No longer on the site, probably sold.

Still up as of tonight.

Sold.

That looks like the little Besson 787 I had a while back. It definitely "punched above its weight". I sold it through BBC and ISTR someone bought it for their daughter.

That should be a good player. One of these days I'll have to go down there and play some tubas....................

That tuba looked awfully familiar. Turns out Dr. Young played in the Liberty Classic Community Band Festival for some years, and we had no idea who he was! He just went by "Fred". Here are pics of him playing in 2015, and of the section from that year:

Looking forward to the finished pics, and to hearing how it plays.

ISTR Joe Tarto, of the Cities Service Band of America, had one of these. He called it "Big Joe", and he and director Paul Lavalle named a march after it:

It was Mason Williams:

Google Translate worked on this site:

https://www-reichsbanner--geschichte-de.translate.goog/cd-maersche-des-reichsbanners-schwarz-rot-gold/titel-1-3?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Actually, it was the other way around. Herr Kuhn originally gave it the Latin title, and it was ...

@ThirdHorn et al, there is at least one online tuba mouthpiece comparison chart. This one is courtesy of Dave Werden. Go here:

https://www.dwerden.com/Mouthpieces/tuba.cfm

Opinions differ on the way Rieu stages his concerts

Anything is better than editing out the instrumental tracks of old movies and playing along, or playing along with video games, YET (sadly) those concerts sell out in the US.


OTOH, much of the music on those soundtracks was played by ...