Re: Is the Tuba a 'good' instrument?


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Posted by Rick Denney on June 16, 2003 at 10:56:44:

In Reply to: Is the Tuba a 'good' instrument? posted by Becoming Frustrated on June 15, 2003 at 18:44:18:

My 7th-grade band teacher closed her sale by telling me that a tuba player is always in demand in bands. She wasn't talking about professionals, of course, but in the amateur ranks I've found what she said to be true.

Tuba players tend to advance more quickly to the better bands at school than their melody-playing counterparts. I was in the 9th-grade band by the middle of my 7th-grade year, after just four months of playing the instrument. It wasn't because I was a prodigy, heh, heh. It was because the kid in the 9th-grade band had to move to another city.

Rick "who fell in love with sound much later" Denney


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