Sad rusty trombone face ;(

amidoinitright: Sad rusty trombone face ;(

How much does it cost to get one of these days?

Sounds like something I would be interested in.

Rusty has a difficult choice. Trombone or Venture?

I don't see how this could be possible without the availability of the rusty trombone.

/get the f*ck off my lawn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ytCEuuW2_A (pops)

shinji3i: amidoinitright: Sad rusty trombone face ;(

How much does it cost to get one of these days?

Sounds like something I would be interested in.

You'd have to go to the ATM, in any case.

I found one



/probably confused it with tub full of bottles of beer

Gyrfalcon: I can't believe a tuba is really that big an item, even for these salsa players who are allegedly behind this.

Someone has gotta be doing it for the lulz.

Maybe they're stealing them to sell as scrap metal? You always hear about thieves ripping the copper wiring out of homes to sell for scrap, and brass is made primarily of copper. Seems as likely as there being a black market for stolen tubas.

nicoffeine: shinji3i: amidoinitright: Sad rusty trombone face ;(

How much does it cost to get one of these days?

Sounds like something I would be interested in.

You'd have to go to the ATM, in any case.

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This place had better watch out (new window). On second thought, the 202 types of beer they have should be a more than ample distraction to any potential thief.

Go ahead, play it once for him (new window).

Sad tuba is sad.

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The story left me confused. It talks about stolen tubas and stolen Sousaphones. Those are different instruments. They're both considered brass instruments and they both play in the same range but they are, in fact different.

Mr. Right: The story left me confused. It talks about stolen tubas and stolen Sousaphones. Those are different instruments. They're both considered brass instruments and they both play in the same range but they are, in fact different.

Having been the only one in my high school band to play both, I'm getting a kick-2-3-4, oompah, oompah, out of this thread.

PizzaJedi81: Mr. Right: The story left me confused. It talks about stolen tubas and stolen Sousaphones. Those are different instruments. They're both considered brass instruments and they both play in the same range but they are, in fact different.

Having been the only one in my high school band to play both, I'm getting a kick-2-3-4, oompah, oompah, out of this thread.

I played low brass - trombone, euphonium, tuba - but the tuba I played was a 5 valve recording tuba about the size of a small houseboat and I never played a Sousaphone. Can you enlighten me on a question? Are there Sousaphones made with more than the standard 3 valves? I've not seen one but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

Mr. Right: I've not seen one but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

I never saw one, either, but all of ours were...5 years old, I wanna say, at the very least. We couldn't so much afford many new instruments.

Who is the end recipient of these stolen instruments? Being able to play any sort of instrument isn't something the average person just picks up in an afternoon. Anyone who has the skill and experience to play one of these tubas and/or sousaphones presumably already has one. They're not improving on what they have by stealing from a high school. Instruments stolen from public schools will likely be bottom of the barrel, barely functional models. The dollar figures stated in the article are the cost to replace with brand new instruments. The as-is value of what was taken is almost certainly next to nil. If this is just a bunch of people who like "banda" but have no idea what it takes to actually make the music, then we should expect it to die out very soon as they realize that it's not so easy. Or maybe their standards are just that low. Either way, pitiful.

PizzaJedi81: Mr. Right: I've not seen one but that doesn't mean they don't exist.

I never saw one, either, but all of ours were...5 years old, I wanna say, at the very least. We couldn't so much afford many new instruments.

I've always thought of the Sousaphone as a much more utilitarian than artistic instrument. It's most useful function was, of course, in marching bands, where they are far superior to the average tuba when it comes to being able to handle them. Marching bands may be fun and they may be fun to watch but they are hardly a high level artistic medium. Some universities offer marching band as a PE credit rather than as a music credit. So I'm not sure that adding the extra valves to facilitate rapid fingering of delicate passages would be one of the goals of Sousaphones. But that may just be me.

Most Sousas only have three valves because (a) they, like the band directors who buy them, are typically cheap, and (b) marching bass parts rarely go much lower than Ab below the staff for very long.

Tuba or Not Tuba?
Tuba Ligation?

My Bologna Has A Maiden Name: Anyone who has the skill and experience to play one of these tubas and/or sousaphones and also has $2000+ to spend on an instrument presumably already has one.

If you want to own a tuba, you have to pay one of the few remaining skilled instrument makes in Elkhart Indiana to pound a lot of brass into the shape of a tuba, or pay an unskilled Chinese assembly-line worker to do it. And if you choose the latter, you have the import costs and cartage fees involved in bringing an eighty-pound crate over from Asia.

Sometimes you can get lucky on eBay. But sometimes you can get lucky stealing from a high school, too.

My Bologna Has A Maiden Name: If this is just a bunch of people who like "banda" but have no idea what it takes to actually make the music, then we should expect it to die out very soon as they realize that it's not so easy.

The tuba parts in any banda song aren't particularly complicated. Two or three note accompaniment played probably in quarter notes, maybe half notes. As long as the guy can schlep the tuba and blow notes, he'll get by okay.

I know plenty of Mexican musicians with no formal training who still perform very well. As someone who did play in the HS band and did take a lot of formal music lessons as a kid, this really irks me.

And banda sucks anyway. I really detest oompa music.

Shadow fixed the toilet with an old trombone.

He never got up in the morning on a Saturday.