Posted on 09/19/2020 3:16:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Oklahoma State University has something unique to its band. Actually, two things.
Sister station KOCO caught up with Georgia Milham and Mikaila Vaughn — two female tuba players who say they are the only two in the entire state and the Division-I collegiate level.
"Don't let people tell you that you can't do something because you're a girl," Vaughn said. "Follow your dreams, do whatever you want."
"Being different is a good thing," Milham said.
Do they wear masks when they play? I imagine all kinds contaminated air coming out of the bell.
Maybe someone should design a tuba bell mask. Then they'd really be different, until it became a fad among the players.
;)
Yes it is a Sousaphone yet that section in a marching band is known as the “tuba line.” My son was a member of the Oklåhoma State Tuba Line 1999-2003.
A bit off-topic, but here’s a good prank to play on a marching band brass player:
Provide yourself with a good juicy lemon and go to a parade. When the band comes by, catch the eye of a horn player and take a big bite of the lemon. In a moment, he or she will drown the instrument with spit.
in the DC we had the Contrabass which is basically a tuba that sits on your shoulder
saw a guy pass out from the heat once, it wasn’t pretty
The percussionist with the least seniority had to play the cymbals in marching band. In seventh grade I weighed 98 pounds-the cymbals were heavy. I thought my arms were going to fall off after holding them out in front of me for so long. The flute would have been a better choice!
Former tuba\sousaphone players unite!
Always stiring up trouble in the back row!
Fan of The OSU. :-)
“ I could never figure out why anybody would want to learn how to play a tuba. ”
I learned to play tuba in high school because trumpet was not available. I was in a jazz band. When I moved and started at my new school, the marching band was short a tuba player. I decided I would rather play football so bye bye tuba.
I’ve always thought of the Sousaphone as a wrap-around tuba.
So, over the next couple of months, I spent my lunch hour and one hour after classes down in the band room with a sousaphone and sheet music learning to play the tuba/sousaphone, all 5'6" and 125 pounds of me. By football season, I had learned it well enough to march with the band ... by band competition time, we received all 1's in the competition.
Playing the tuba at Michigan Boys' State that year, I received the Outstanding Bandsman Award. I was also nominated for and received the John Philip Sousa National Band Award that year.
I guess, if you really want to be noticed, be the only tuba/sousaphone player in the band ...
By the time I graduated, I was also playing baritone sax in the Jazz/Stage Band ...
“One time at band camp....”
Oh, band camp... all the bad boys were in percussion. What good times we had in the late 70s!
? DC ?
Drum Corps
Duh Me, Thanks.
The girl that was playing had the mask around her neck, I don’t see how you could play with a mask on.
My son for one: Wanted to play “something loud, Some thing with a big blat.”
His aunt, then a trombone player, convinced him that a trombone was louder. Had the only instrument you take apart in band.
Sure enough, a few years later making a turn, one of his buddies threw the slide out on the field.
Oh. And in Basic Training, you get to play for the parades too. Don’t have to march as much, and you “do something” while everybody else just stands there.
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