why there is no (!) trumpet christmas ...

YouTube ^ | Dec 14, 2009

[real saxophonist]

TubaChristmas is a great tradition, but this shows why there is no (!) trumpet christmas ...

[real saxophonist]

Posting this here is one on my Christmas traditions. 8~)

[Hot Tabasco]

I could never figure out why any kid would want to learn how to play a tuba let alone play in the marching band with it.......

[real saxophonist]

Well, to me, saxophone always felt like ‘work’. So tuba and bass trombone were ‘fun’. That’s why. A lot of people I marched Drum Corps with were woodwind players who decided to learn brass because it was fun. Especially marching with one of the top Drum & Bugle Corps in the world.

[Flycatcher]

Posting this here is one on my Christmas traditions. 8~)

Haha! Yes, I know. Thanks!

Just played it for my wife, introducing it as a beautiful Christmas piece.

(I was properly scolded...)

Merry Christmas!

[Fiji Hill]

I could never figure out why any kid would want to learn how to play a tuba let alone play in the marching band with it.......

In high school, I played the baritone horn in our marching band, and we played one tune for which I wished I could have had a tuba. Our alma mater, which we played after football games, assemblies, etc. had no baritone horn part, so I had to play the bass, or tuba part. Most of the notes in the piece were below the baritone horn's normal range, and one, a "C" two octaves below "middle C," was at its extreme range, but I always managed to play it.

Incidentally, my school, Whittier High School in Whittier, Calif. has a great alma mater, set to the tune of the popular hit song Yankee Rose.

[njmaugbill]

Which Drum Corps did you March with ? I’m still playing with the Caballeros Alumni!

[real saxophonist]

Spirit of Atlanta Contra, ‘83-’86.

[JoeFromSidney]

I sympathize with you. In high school I played the bassoon in the band. The William Tell Overture opens with a bassoon solo, including one of the lowest notes on the bassoon. I had so much trouble with it that the conductor usually had a sax player play that opening.

[Fiji Hill]

In high school I played the bassoon in the band. The William Tell Overture opens with a bassoon solo, including one of the lowest notes on the bassoon.

In performances by an orchestra, I have usually heard that solo played by a violoncello, which your band probably didn't have.

Here are the "Ranz des Vaches" (cattle call) and "Galop" or "March of the Swiss Army":sections of the "William Tell Overture" played by a bassoon ensemble.

William Tell Overture--Bassoon Ensemble

[Fiji Hill]

This song features what sounds a lot like a bassoon. If it really is a bassoon, it is probably the first rock and roll record to feature one.

I Know How it Feels--The Marvelettes (1962)