Tuba or Sousaphone?

[5StringBlues]

Reports of guys getting chicks because of their tuba playing skills have been greatly exaggerated.


That is all.

 

[Bob Lee (QSC)]

Question: Sitting or marching?

 

[L-A]

I went with the concert tuba cos it's playable in house easier than a sousaphone but I loved played the ol sousaphone.
Yeah great for you guys if it got you chicks, I guess a girl playing this big brass horn around scared off the guys. *sigh*

I can at least say I was Trabuco Hills High FIRST girl tuba player.

FWIW, I dated a contra player for a while.

 

[Chunk-O-Funk]

I don't know.

Do they make a seven valve ERT or ERS?

 

[5StringBlues]

 

[Disraeli Gears]

I thought *sousaphone* was the proper term for *tuba*
No?

Edit: From wiki- 'A sousaphone is a type of tuba...'
NOT to say wikipedia is the last word on anything. The Bayou Brass Band had a big dude named Chuey(sp?)on Sousaphone, if I'm not mistaken. Very funky.

Sousaphone:

Tuba:

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If I'm not mistaken, the Sousaphone was designed to fill the role of a Tuba in a marching band (since a Tuba is not exactly easy to march with).

 

[5StringBlues]

If I'm not mistaken, the Sousaphone was designed to fill the role of a Tuba in a marching band (since a Tuba is not exactly easy to march with).

^ Yup,they didnt name it after John Phillip Sousa ( king of marching band music ) for nothing!

 

[warwick.hoy]

Tuba,...

 

[Dr_Funkdamental]

Reports of guys getting chicks because of their tuba playing skills have been greatly exaggerated.


That is all.

You'd be surprised. Even ppl in the army bands have a hard time when I tell them the bandsmen were the coolest cats on the yard in college. Its a showstyle thing though .

To answer the question, sousaphone all day. While requiring more skill to play in tune and have a good tone, its more fun to me. And you get to destroy basketball gyms like this:

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[bassman1987]

Contra.

YES!! Drum corps or corps-style marching band is the only way to go.

 

[Buslady7803]

Now how about one of these:

i didnt know they still make these helicons, this is the marching tuba before Sousa got his hands on it.

 

[funkybass4ever]

Tuba. Better sound quality. to me anyway. Sousaphone is the circular one thats used in marching bands.

+1 and sousaphones have a tendancy to collect popcorn,pencils and spitwads

 

[CBgaragebassist]

+1 and sousaphones have a tendancy to collect popcorn,pencils and spitwads

Friend of mine got a Nerf ball stuck in his and didn't get it out for about a week.

 

[funkybass4ever]

Friend of mine got a Nerf ball stuck in his and didn't get it out for about a week.

When i was in high school we laid one on the ground over summer break in our bandroom and in fall we found a rats nest in it with a family living on the food thrown in it from past parades.

 

[CBgaragebassist]

When i was in high school we laid one on the ground over summer break in our bandroom and in fall we found a rats nest in it with a family living on the food thrown in it from past parades.

That's just wrong...

 

[funkybass4ever]

That's just wrong...

it was a white fiberglass type material and never sounded the same after that

 

[JacoLesFlea]

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^ sousaphone


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^ tuba.


It's been about 30 years since I played either.That said,if I was playing with a New Orleans brass band,sousaphone.Otherwise,tuba.



I vote carrots.

sousaphone girl is hot!!!!

 

[JacoLesFlea]

Reports of guys getting chicks because of their tuba playing skills have been greatly exaggerated.


That is all.

Trumpet players get the chicks

 

[ADbassman]

Now how about one of these:

i didnt know they still make these helicons, this is the marching tuba before Sousa got his hands on it.

Holy crap, I remember those. Marching Mizzou had some for practice.

I remember the fiberglass sousaphones too. They played like a canoe.

 

[deaf pea]

I don't know.

Do they make a seven valve ERT or ERS?

My old Alexander CC Tuba (from Germany) had 5 valves . . . The "usual" F Tuba has 6 valves . . . from my days with the symphony orchestras ('64-'67) . . .


Oh, yeah . . . my vote goes to the TUBA . . . . . .