Someone used his tuba powers for good:
A sad trombone would have been appropriate as well but too repetitive.
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Someone used his tuba powers for good:
A sad trombone would have been appropriate as well but too repetitive.
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Baud
OT but interesting to history buffs.
Baud
Re the clip, Reddit claimed it was a sousaphone.
Shakezula
The use of Herr Wagner’s most famous composition was particularly inspired.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: My understanding is a sousaphone is a type of tuba, so it’s not inaccurate to call a sousaphone a tuba. And tuba is more fun to say and shorter to write!
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Thanks. I learn so much here!
JPL
@Baud: snob
Baud
@JPL:
You still mad about me not teaching you how to post forbidden words?
Catherine D.
A kazoo band would work nicely too!
satby
Suddenly, I’m liking the tuba. And I agree, Ride of the Valkyries was most inspired… in a Chuck Jones kinda way.
JPL
@Baud: lol
Gravenstone
@Baud: Yeah, the Sousaphone is basically a tuba modified for marching band use. The tuba is carried, the Sousaphone has the enlarged loop to let it be draped over the body.
Betty Cracker
@satby: It makes me want to learn how to play the tuba just so I can troll assholes! One time a friend at a gay pride march followed an asshole hell-fire preacher who’d crashed the party around and blasted an air horn every time he opened his yap. It was an effective way to shut him down, but it hurt everyone’s ears.
satby
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satby
@Betty Cracker: Yeah, that tuba was just annoying enough but in a funny way that it got the “what a bunch of clowns and losers” message across. To the marchers too, I noticed they either turned to look or grimly refused to look, both funny as well. They were prepared for confrontation, not mockery.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby:
Yeah, I loved that part. I could almost smell the napalm.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: Love that smell in the morning!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think Sousaphone and tuba are both fun to say, but yeah tuba is much easier to type
whatever you call it, the vaguely farty sound is the perfect sound track for the occasion
Yatsuno
@efgoldman: Sousaphone, tuba, tomato, to-mah-to. We always called our horns tubas and actual marching tubas (which do exist) shoulder riders. And shoulder riders are hella harder on the body than sousas are.
Gimlet
Open thread – News
The latest Quinnipiac University swing state polling released Wednesday shows the Democratic frontrunner trailing former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker in each of these states.
The results offered more indications that Clinton has a problem: Voters say they don’t trust her.
In Colorado, only 34% of voters said they see Clinton as honest and trustworthy while 62% said they don’t. In Iowa, the numbers were 33% to 59% — a drop from 45% to 47% in April. And in Virginia, Clinton did best, at 39% saying they trust her to 55% saying they don’t.
“She has lost ground in the horse race and on key questions about her honesty and leadership,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll, in a release accompanying Wednesday morning’s results. “On being a strong leader, a key metric in presidential campaigns, she has dropped four to 10 points depending on the state and she is barely above 50% in each of the three states.”
vooodooo84
I hate Illinois Nazis
satby
@efgoldman: Code will still be good then so save it!
satby
@Gimlet: Yeah, how they phrased their questions is the first thought this report immediately raises for me.
Baud
@Gimlet:
I haven’t read it, but kos has a post up critiquing that poll if you are interested.
Gimlet
@Baud:
I’ll check it out and consider it a not-too-serious harbinger until follow-up polls indicate similar findings.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Wiring nearly done, windows nearly all in, the cornice dudes were awesome, fearless and humped it in awful hot conditions.
east is east
A sad trombone could have added.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: she’s also been staying below the radar. In ’08, when she started yelling that she was a fighter who’d been fighting for thirty-five years, I was half-amused, half-offended, given that she had basically sat quietly with her hands folder in her lap during the worst presidency since Nixon, if not ever. I was gobsmacked how much traction it got with people.
ETA: my point being: campaigning affects people’s thinking. doesn’t always win, and she’s not the best, but it does change people’s thinking
Just watching the rerun of Obama on TDS, and Stewart introduces him with, “I’m sure he has a fund-raiser he has to be at, so let’s get started”. I’m not really gonna miss him.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gimlet: I’ll worry after the conventions. This next election has always been about GOTV.
jl
Sousaphone to ridicule them. Oboe band to disperse them, works quicker than bagpipes.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jl: I like bagpipes. Really, not trolling. Can’t say as I’ve could single out the sound of an oboe,
Brachiator
@Baud: And indirectly, we can thank chocolate for the collection of these manuscripts:
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-33436021
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I generally like her campaign tactics so far. Don’t know if it’ll work, but I can’t criticize it.
Stewart is still better than most, but he went all No Labels a while ago.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Roof?
Baud
@Brachiator:
I shall eat some chocolate tonight in appreciation.
A Ghost To Most
@raven:
So you are finally getting a tailwind after so much tacking on this project? That must feel good.
Baud
@raven:
McCain-like?
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Not yet! The paper is up. They are having a bit of an issue routing the range hood since it exits out the formerly exterior wall and that will be a pretty shallow space. It will have to be vented up through the roof so I think that is what they are waiting for. We also will have to decide whether or not to put and entire new roof on. We most likely will but it ain’t in the budget, nor is the extensive kitchen. On the bright side, I got a salary adjustment yesterday that stunned me so there is that!
east is east
I could fall in love with the woman narrating this.
raven
@Baud: It was over 100 heat index yesterday and these cats worked up on that rig in the direct sun all day. I may be carried away but watching them and the framers work was truly impressive.
raven
@A Ghost To Most: Yea, looks like keeping my cool has payed off.
Baud
@raven:
I have a desk job, so the idea of working outside with my hands appeals to me. But I’m experienced enough to know that that fantasy would last about five minutes in the real world.
Brachiator
Tuba or not Tuba, that is the question.
Betty Cracker
@raven: I don’t think I’ve ever gotten a raise in my life without some unexpected expense cropping up to wipe it out. Even when I quit smoking this happened — the day after I added up the savings and was daydreaming about what I’d do with it, I found out my kid needed braces on her teeth, so there went my little quit fund. Pffft!
Gimlet
The man in the glasses
“Let no one be mistaken – Donald Trump’s candidacy is a cancer on conservatism, and it must be clearly diagnosed, excised and discarded,” the 2016 presidential hopeful said during remarks in Washington D.C. “It cannot be pacified or ignored, for it will destroy a set of principles that has lifted more people out of poverty than any force in the history of the civilized world – the cause of conservatism.”
raven
@Betty Cracker: We’re going to put half of this into the retirement plan.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I have a bagpipe memory I will carry with me to the day I die.
The folks took us kids (all 6 of us)(I was app 14 yo) up to Banff National Park. Decided that we should hike around Lake Louise. About a quarter of the way we got hit with the T-storm from hell- took shelter under what ever was available- and afterwards, soaking wet, continued on. Somewhere past the halfway mark we crossed paths with a guy carrying bagpipes (no idea if they were Scottish or Irish, didn’t know enuf to look back then) and cont. on our way. And then… at some point in time…. before we got back…. He-Started-Playing.
We looked back and saw this.
I wouldn’t say my life was complete, but damn if it hadn’t taken a significant step further along that route.
gogol's wife
@OzarkHillbilly:
I got my husband the “Inspector Morse” CD, and one of his favorite cuts is the Ride of the Valkyries. He was playing it when I was in the car, and I said I loved the smell of napalm in the morning, and he looked at me as if I was crazy.
gogol's wife
Whatever Hillary Clinton’s faults, she’s a million times smarter and better than any of the Repub candidates. I’m all in. /Obot.
east is east
@Betty Cracker: I’ve been down that same road. I quit smoking and thought look at all the money I’m saving. Then the house radiator started leaking, stove stopped working, car got a flat. But we’re saving our health. Not a good habit to have.
Timurid
Five points off for no Horst Wessel Lied…
RaflW
@Yatsuno: I did some googling and, since today is a kinda a need moar silly trumpets sort of day, found this youtube. Stick with it to at least 2:35.
I believe the big shoulder thing is a contrabass bugle but what a gizmo to shoulder compared to a sousaphone.
gogol's wife
@Timurid:
That would be mind-blowing on the tuba.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Cool. A suggestion? Find a way to fit the whole roof in the budget? You won’t be sorry.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Yea, I’m 99.9% sure we’re going to do that. We have a couple of small leaks and issues that make this the time to do it.
Enzymer
I was also thinking bag pipes as an instrument I wish I could play to Troll the bigots here in NC. Perhaps the lege!
Love me some good bagpipe music, seriously.
Gimlet
@raven:
Just enough time before the Fall hurricane season.
RaflW
@Gimlet:
How about mocking? I’d go with lots and lots of hard-dig mocking. And ol’ Rick should know about that, he’s been on the receiving end of plenty (deservedly).
shell
Oh my. That made me laugh out loud!
p.a.
Remember this?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven:
They do accumulate. I once put a sky light in for some friends and told them there roof was shot and they needed to get a new one as there was no way I could seal it up.. 3 months later their ceiling fell in.
Of course, it was all my fault.
Gimlet
@RaflW:
Delicate lil thing if Trump all by himself can destroy it.
shell
A mighty Tuba is our Lord!
ThresherK
@gogol’s wife: Does this recording happen to provide any info on any music from The Way Through The Woods episode?
Some of the music in that particular two-parter is incredible, even by Barrington Pheloung’s standards of either composing or selecting parts.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Yikes!
Yatsuno
@jl: Old band joke: How do you tune two oboes? Shoot one.
(Yes it’s morbid. But oboe was my concert band horn so I can tell that joke.)
me
@satby: I hate Illinois nazis.
satby
@raven: Well, sounds good! Glad to hear it’s all moving again, waiting for remodelling is teh sux.
satby
@me: {{me}} love that movie, but I’m a bone deep Chicago girl.
Betty Cracker
@east is east: Damn right! It was worth every bit of the anguish.
Pogonip
Oh boy! I hardly ever have occasion to tell this one:
Dear folks,
How are you? I am fine except I think I will have to move out of my apartment. Every morning at 0500 the guy below me hammers on his ceiling with a broom and yells out awful things. I just can’t concentrate on my sousaphone practice with all that going on!
satby
@gogol’s wife: LOL!
It could totally be misinterpreted, but I figured this crowd would get it.
gogol's wife
@ThresherK:
It doesn’t give any information about episodes, unfortunately. I know that Sempre libera is from the brewery one, and Fauré’s Requiem is in The Remorseful Day, and the Schubert quintet is in Dead on Time, but other than that I’m at sea. When did they use the Ride of the Valkyries, for instance?
The Way Through the Woods is really one of the most terrifying episodes ever. Love it!
gogol's wife
@Yatsuno:
Do you know the one about the English horn solo?
Pogonip
@gogol’s wife: If you hum a few bars he can fake it.
Sandra R.
ps://wwhttw.flickr.com/photos/34053360@N05/15978274331/in/album-72157647348941533/ Sousaphones in action. Northwood High School Marching Chargers. Christmas Parade, Pittsboro, NC.
Another Holocene Human
@me: To me one of the best scenes in a movie, ever. Definitely the most memorable car chase. I like how it builds up to the fantasy. And the gently mocking use of Wagner.
Sandra R.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/34053360@N05/15978274331/in/album-72157647348941533/ Hope this works. Sousaphones from award winning marching band. Sorry for bad cut/paste skills.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@satby:
We caught it on cable recently and it holds up surprisingly well, possibly because it’s structured as a good old-fashioned Judy and Mickey “let’s put on a show in the barn!” musical.
SiubhanDuinne
@OzarkHillbilly:
Bow wow!
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
I must have missed that somewhere along the way. Me too. Love being from Chicago (well, Oak Park if we want to get technical). Going back this fall for a family reunion and am ridiculously excited at the prospect!
J R in WV
I marched football games and parades with a silver plated brass monster Sousaphone for 5 years, and I firmly believe it is why I get 35/y/o scores on the “blow as hard as you can for as long as you can” medical lung capacity gadget. As a 64//y/o that feels pretty good at the annual physical.
Well, that and the little hitch in the USN as a bosun’s mate, which involved lots of hard work in the Gulf Coast one summer! 6 / 12 hour shifts a week in the heat of the day, which lasted all day every day!
Tuba is great. Glad those guys had to put up with it on their protest march !!!
Feathers
Late to the thread, but wanted to add this link: Nice Day for Nazis. David Neiwert on the Clowns Against Nazis in the Pacific Northwest. Clowns Against the Confederacy would be a fantastic updating.
In high school played tuba in the band, sousaphone in the marching band. FYI – John Phillip Sousa invented the tuba with the tubes stretched out into a circle big enough for the player to wear around their body, resting on their shoulder – hence the sousaphone. Coolest tuba precursor – the Serpent, used in the late Middle Ages to add more bass to male church choirs. They were painted up to look like devilish serpents.
I wanted to take up the tuba again, but my knees are not great and those suckers are expensive.