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LOL...
When (mid-late 1960's) we were a bunch of elementary schoolboys running up and down the streets of our neighborhood (as well as through abandoned shacks out in the woods, messing around in the overgrown pecan orchard, running through concreted-in ditches as our "freeways", and all that stuff...)
...there was an old man who sat out on his porch and - because he was there - we would stop and listen to him articulate, declare, and reflect forth (as if a wise guru).
I only remember one of his "wise sayings"...
Boys, life it too short to waste your time with fat girls.
bloke "I didn't... ...but don't kill the messenger...It ain't MY saying."
bloke wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 1:04 pm
Where is Charlie Vernon's one-page treatise, when we really need it?
I'm missing the reference there, can you elaborate?
juvenile coarse humor, which is way more true than funny - describing some symphonic low brass players attitudes
It's 100% true then, but don't blame them, they were taught that way.
Some 15 years ago I played in a big band which was composed of good amateurs, some semi-pros and all the student of the jazz diploma (future pros).
The students were all like that, and could debate hours of a single chord substitution
bloke wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 9:41 am
...that could be part of an old French tuba part...as Offenbach was a French composer.
You probably already know this, but those particular instruments were actually smaller than modern-day euphoniums, though the length of modern-day huge C tubas.
Huh? Bloke must be having a "Biden moment", as he knows French tuba bugles are 8 feet long, as opposed to 16 feet long for CC tubas.
bloke wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 9:24 pm
...there was an old man who sat out on his porch and - because he was there - we would stop and listen to him articulate, declare, and reflect forth (as if a wise guru).
I only remember one of his "wise sayings"...
Boys, life it too short to waste your time with fat girls.
bloke "I didn't... ...but don't kill the messenger...It ain't MY saying."
One of my first jobs was as a kitchen gopher at a dinner and the resident cantankerous old coot had the opposite advice
Don't waste time with skinny girls.. they wanna hold your hand and chat with Mama on the porch.. big girls give you the lovin...
So much for the wisdom of the old...
What is this thread about anyway???
As amateur as they come...I know just enough to be dangerous.
Meinl-Weston 20
Holton Medium Eb 3+1
Holton Collegiate Sousas in Eb and BBb
Conn 20J
and whole bunch of other "Stuff"
bloke wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 9:24 pm
...there was an old man who sat out on his porch and - because he was there - we would stop and listen to him articulate, declare, and reflect forth (as if a wise guru).
I only remember one of his "wise sayings"...
Boys, life it too short to waste your time with fat girls.
bloke "I didn't... ...but don't kill the messenger...It ain't MY saying."
One of my first jobs was as a kitchen gopher at a dinner and the resident cantankerous old coot had the opposite advice
Don't waste time with skinny girls.. they wanna hold your hand and chat with Mama on the porch.. big girls give you the lovin...
So much for the wisdom of the old...
What is this thread about anyway???
If you noticed, I changed the name of a thread that I started a few days ago.
bloke wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 9:41 am
...that could be part of an old French tuba part...as Offenbach was a French composer.
You probably already know this, but those particular instruments were actually smaller than modern-day euphoniums, though the length of modern-day huge C tubas.
Huh? Bloke must be having a "Biden moment", as he knows French tuba bugles are 8 feet long, as opposed to 16 feet long for CC tubas.
yep... Thanks.
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