We're kind of stand agnostic - whatever's handy and works.
We've have 7 or 8 of the Manhasset 48s for at-home, and my wife & daughter favor taking those.
We've also got large deck Vekkia, Voyager, Hamilton, & Peak portables. If I need multi-page & a sturdy writing surface & it's indoor, I'll take ...

A bandmate and I carpooled to California AllState.
Upon arrival, we auditioned for chairs and were assigned to volunteers' houses.
Our assignment (6 or 7 brass instrumentalists) was picked up in two cars driven by the homeowner mom and her daughter.
It was a small home and they fed us a spaghetti ...

20+ years ago, a friend & I boot-strapped a 12-person Independence Day band to support a friend's home-grown Ind. Day Observance.
I've been running it ever since, and word-of-mouth has grown that little 'pick-up-&-play' band to ~120 instrumentalists this year, including 7 local band directors and ...

Are audition costs deductible?

Side note: Pinkerton's bbq in Houston ... oh, my!

I've got a new, unused SKB 375 case. I think it's sized for a 321, because I had bought one for my son's Besson Prestige 2052, and it required a good 30 minutes of work with a nylon hammer to enlarge the cavities to fit the bigger horn.
Protected the horn very well during an international tour, but ...

Your dims didn't change through 2-1/2 years of high school?
You must've been pretty darn tall as an 8th grader . . .

LeMark wrote: Sat Jul 19, 2025 2:33 pm I have one in Texas. Too big to ship though. Where are you located?

Yeah, me, too, but not just the shipping; means I'd have to pull it out of the attic - lazy.

For some reason now i can't get

https://youtube.com/watch?v=bOyJUF0p9Wc

out of my head.

And am strangely disappointed with apple's map app search for the title location...


Valerie Bertinelli says Kokomo's in Indiana and serves the best cup of coffee she ever had, per One Day at a Time ...

Having read Boys in the Boat a while back (true story of the University of Washington crew team's journey to gold at the '36 Berlin Olympics) I was pleasantly surprised to see a 2023 BluRay version at the library, and watched it this week over a few treadmill sessions - my movie time :popcorn:

I ...

Bought Alford's Hungry Five on Broadway (eBay), but it's only 4 books, missing the trombone part.
Anyone have one to sell or scan and send?

While I'm on the topic:
I own the Hungry Five for Germany, Spain, and Ragtime, but would like to pick up a set of the Italy & Ireland, too.

I used it with the Vine City Six in Hammondsport, NY when I was subbing for my professor, circa 2000. It was plenty big for these types of gigs, even an outdoor gazebo.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pw/AP1GczP2hrMV6Le0BA-2NJPzbCzimaahGm3jND4riSmMOgJX7MhQqC90FHMv4PiA07Y74DEMo5HzqRkAFgBi ...

Sorry, none of your pics are loading for me. It says that I need to request access to view.


Thanks for the headsup.
I modified the default "restricted" to "anyone", but don't know if that's sufficient or if I'll have to update the links in the post.
Please let me know if you still can't see ...

In 2014 I loaned my Cleveland H.N. White for a gig, and he bought it from me immediately thereafter and that was that, until he emailed me a couple weeks ago asking if I wanted to buy it back.
I've spent the intervening time hoping he wouldn't change his mind and sell it to someone else until my ...

I just ordered two of these. I'll give a full report

https://www.amazon.com/Vekkia-Music-Stand-Lightweight-Installation-dp-B0DKFCX4WF/dp/B0DKFCX4WF/ref=dp_ob_title_ce


Interesting. I prefer the narrower bag of the fold-in-half Vekkia deck, but I'm intrigued by the extensions. . . might try to ...

Decades ago, Dick Akright installed a trigger on my Besson 967.
He groused about how much more difficult it was - and time that it took - than he'd anticipated.
Cut me a more-than-fair deal.

Stands:
At home we have 7 Manhassets spread around the house, combo of retail purchase & super cheap from a ...

. . . Euphonium Stand. I’d like my newly acquired Double Bell to have somewhere to live too!


Quick plug for Bloke’s waste-not-want-not practicality and willingness to share his knowledge:
I wasn’t doubling enough to justify the expense or clutter of a euph stand, but several years back, Bloke ...

I crop (Irfanview) the scans as tightly as I can to eliminate "double" margins prior to printing.
Un-helpful to your situation, I acknowledge, but I have a duplexing 11x17 laser printer. Prior to cataract surgery, I printed to 11x17 (scaled back a bit to fit the stand & folder) at max contrast. At ...

bloke wrote: Thu Apr 03, 2025 10:24 am (and - by the way - not a John Williams march).

Whether I'm in the audience or on a stage, when I see it on the program, I suppress a groan. Not a fan.

Funny, I guess I don't pay much attention, but my impression is that things commonly start off with a triumphant, celebratory or energetic kicker to launch the program, vis. paso doble, Festive Overture-type, Copland Fanfare-type, and my preference would be for a burst of concert-ending energy or ...

How do you fit ~anything~ in a Miata trunk, much less a tuba. Did you remove the spare?
I removed the passenger seat for a month to re-upholster it (low-priority project on infrequently-driven car), and I enjoyed having the extra space. Sousaphone, tuba, hard-case euphonium (none fit in the trunk ...