What Do You Call A Tuba Player (Besides Tuba Player)?
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Accourding to the Southern Heritage Foundation dictionary, a person who can "do" the tuba, is a tuba "doer".
I have actually seen and heard this concept of language in practice, one day in Wal-mart, back when they kept PB computers setting out for sale where people could mess with / destroy them. Two hillbilly types and their ugly kid were there, and Jr. was messing with/destroying the computer he found there.
"Looka there. He can do the computer! I din't know he could do the computer! Looksee! He's got him a game!" (Jr. has found solitair, and now accidently hits the shortcut to a dos window). " Whatsee doing with it now? Oooooo.....he's programing it! He shore can do the computer! I didn't know he could do the computer!"
I have actually seen and heard this concept of language in practice, one day in Wal-mart, back when they kept PB computers setting out for sale where people could mess with / destroy them. Two hillbilly types and their ugly kid were there, and Jr. was messing with/destroying the computer he found there.
"Looka there. He can do the computer! I din't know he could do the computer! Looksee! He's got him a game!" (Jr. has found solitair, and now accidently hits the shortcut to a dos window). " Whatsee doing with it now? Oooooo.....he's programing it! He shore can do the computer! I didn't know he could do the computer!"
My opinion is stupid and wrong.
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This musician alone in Bath city
Whose skills on soprano were shXXXXX
a pity
To seduce a young clarinet
Got a sousaphone on the 'net
For tuba bubbles in bath are so pretty
ok, ok, you're the Anglophoniacs, you'll take care of the metrics
PS: PhilO? you don't call a tuba player. Just whistle, or sousaphone him.
Whose skills on soprano were shXXXXX
a pity
To seduce a young clarinet
Got a sousaphone on the 'net
For tuba bubbles in bath are so pretty
ok, ok, you're the Anglophoniacs, you'll take care of the metrics
PS: PhilO? you don't call a tuba player. Just whistle, or sousaphone him.
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Beat me to that obvious quip (although I was going to use "Craig") and ruined my day.Chuck_Clark wrote:The last one I actually knew was called Jack.
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And whether the skin be black or white as the snow.
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Thanks for that... Yes, some of us High School Tubist (I've seen it spelled Tubaist also...) Geek-types actually grow up to be College Tubist Geek-types, and some of us even learn to play the whistle...susnfx wrote:I'm with you, DCrom...my first thought for what you call a tuba player:
geek. But I shouldn't rush to judgment. I'm sure there are some fine tunaists/ tubaists/ tubists out there. For all I know, Brad Pitt may have played the tuba.
And, that indeed is where my nickname. Tubafor, comes from. As for the Tubadours, they are a GREAT tuba quartet that played Disneyland for many years, cut a couple of albums, and play some stuff you'd never dream was possible on tubas...
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One of the most beautiful recordings of Amazing Grace i know is a tuba solo, in the "Mancini Generation" album (early 70s Henry Mancini's orchestra, probably terminally extinct; i don't remember anything else from the album).
[img]http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A9337923 ... 6678ot1lsi[/img]
Amazing Grace (Tommy Johnson, Tuba; Henry Mancini, ARP Synthesizer; Graham Young, Trumpet)
http://www.mp3.com/albums/54416/summary.html
[img]http://images.snapfish.com/33%3A9337923 ... 6678ot1lsi[/img]
Amazing Grace (Tommy Johnson, Tuba; Henry Mancini, ARP Synthesizer; Graham Young, Trumpet)
http://www.mp3.com/albums/54416/summary.html
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Here's four tubas for tubafor!
The Taraf de Haïdouks gypsy band in its "Band of Gypsies" album has but one whistle... but invited four tubas (three barytones, one bass) from Macedonia.
PhilO might be interested to learn the title of the last album from this "tubist" (?) band... Check it out, there are some good samples : http://www.crammed.be/kocani-orkestar/index.htm
The Taraf de Haïdouks gypsy band in its "Band of Gypsies" album has but one whistle... but invited four tubas (three barytones, one bass) from Macedonia.
PhilO might be interested to learn the title of the last album from this "tubist" (?) band... Check it out, there are some good samples : http://www.crammed.be/kocani-orkestar/index.htm