Surely he’s a tuber.
Euphemist?
Drone blower?
Big mouth brassy bass???
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!"
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.
PS: PhilO? you don’t call a tuba player. Just whistle, or sousaphone him.
Your real name is Zubivkabacall?
PhilO
Beat me to that obvious quip (although I was going to use “Craig”) and ruined my day. 
Nah–for such cross-fippling, we already have a Loren on the board, haven’t we? 
Here’s looking at you: Humphrey Zobart (please pardon my lisp). Just call me Zoobie.
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… 
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… 
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).
Amazing Grace (Tommy Johnson, Tuba; Henry Mancini, ARP Synthesizer; Graham Young, Trumpet)
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
Music?
Am I missing the entire subject of this thread? Zoob, I don’t see a single tuba in that band. Are we all talking about the same instrument??
I’m talking about that humongous metal put-in-on-and-you’ll-never-get-out oom-pah thingy that’s always on the back row in the marching band, looking like an RCA Victrola on steroids.
Susan
Yes, that one, but it can actually play pretty too. Many old jazz bands had tuba instead of string bass, for example.
Correct description. The cover of the album is the Taraf crew proper, while the four tubas were guests, from another band and weren’t in the photo. But, believe me, you can hear them
Glauber is correct about jazz; if I’m not wrong, true, early New Orleans, had brass, not string bass for rythmics. Just try and march with a string contrabass… These came in only when jazz became an indoors sport. Also, original recording studios needed the “oomph” of the brass to properly record basses.
Tubas and Sousaphones are often confused for each other. The big things in the marching bands with giant bells facing forward are Sousaphones. Their tubing is also arranged so the player can rest the weight of the instrument on their shoulders. They were developed by John Phillips Sousa for use in mardhing bands. Tubas have bells that face upwards and are designed to be played sitting down. I believe they both have the same range of notes.
Right on the money. The range is about the same, although the Sousaphone is usually a little more limited, especially since most of them (especially in high school bands) have only 3 valves instead of 4. I can get quite a bit more range out of my concert horn (like the G off the end of the piano to above middle C - at least in the days I was a performance major… ), and if I had 5 valves I could do even more. My horn, btw, is a CC tuba - most you see in high school bands are BBb. The CC horn gives me a little more flexibility in both range and fingering.
Sorry - a long discourse on tuba is like talking about r****d**s around here.
Aha. Tuba, or not tuba: that is the question.
rimshot
My car radio is always tuned to Mexican or Tex-Mex music stations, and I hear a lot of tuba playing some mighty nice bass lines.
Early recording artist often used tuba for bass insted of string bass. The concept of amplifiers was sorta new, and without amplifying, the string bass wasn’t the greatest for recording. Whey they settled on at the time was a very very larg concert tuba with a directional bell. Basically a sousaphone sound in semi-concert tuba form. In fact tubas of that type wound up getting the name “recording tubas”. I played one a bit back in high school. It was a monster. Played just like a sousaphone.
BTW, Sousa didn’t develop the sousaphone. http://www.jwpepper.com/history/sousa.html
Abeydarnt! while I always it was invented by Linda Da Sousa, while the concert pitch versions (in F/C) remained as fadophones…
PS: anyone with the biography of the great percussionists Mr Vibra and Mrs Xylo?