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'Tuba girls rule the world': Women playing tuba in college marching band share message of strength
KSBW ^ | Sep 18, 2020 | Erin Beu

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.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment; Sports
KEYWORDS: tuba
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1 posted on 09/19/2020 3:16:28 AM PDT by nickcarraway
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That's not a tuba, it's a sousaphone.

-PJ

2 posted on 09/19/2020 3:21:04 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (Freedom of the press is the People's right to publish, not CNN's right to the 1st question.)
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To: nickcarraway

Female brass players were rare in HS and rarer still in college.

Do they mean tuba or double bass sousaphone?

Either way, if these gals like it and are good at it, you go girls!


3 posted on 09/19/2020 3:21:23 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Well we are the first band nerds to check in :) ;)


4 posted on 09/19/2020 3:22:11 AM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Do not mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: nickcarraway

It’s the quarter notes that will get you.


5 posted on 09/19/2020 3:23:31 AM PDT by Track9 (English language instruction in china is sponsored by the CCP to facilitate espionage.)
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To: nickcarraway
I drive a school bus with a woman who played the trombone for one of the Marine bands. Quite a character 🇺🇸
6 posted on 09/19/2020 3:30:27 AM PDT by Laslo Fripp (The Sybil of Free Republic)
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sad to see them forced to wear masks during the interview.


7 posted on 09/19/2020 3:37:52 AM PDT by Impy (Thug Lives Splatter - China delenda est)
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To: nickcarraway

To be a tubby tuba player or not to be. That is the question.


8 posted on 09/19/2020 3:50:50 AM PDT by HighSierra5
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My wife played the tuba for the Penn State Marching Band, just before we met in 1996. She’s only 5’ 7” and the most feminine woman I’ve ever known.


9 posted on 09/19/2020 4:03:45 AM PDT by Chainmail (Remember that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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That's not a tuba, it's a sousaphone. -PJ

You made me look it up. By golly you're right. I've had 'em bass-ackwards all these years. You learned me sumpthin'. Thanks.

10 posted on 09/19/2020 4:11:58 AM PDT by misanthrope (Deranged, sinister, deplorable troll)
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To: nickcarraway

So brave...
#lookatme


11 posted on 09/19/2020 4:16:38 AM PDT by EEGator
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That’s the kind of daughter I’d want, if I had a daughter.


12 posted on 09/19/2020 4:30:05 AM PDT by Bogle
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To: freedumb2003; Political Junkie Too

Eight steps to ten yards.

13 posted on 09/19/2020 4:39:07 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Chainmail
It doesn't get much better than that, FRiend. It's Saturday night - time for the Phyrst.


14 posted on 09/19/2020 4:45:39 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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I could never figure out why anybody would want to learn how to play a tuba. If I was in high school and desired to join the marching band, my instrument of choice would be a flute......


15 posted on 09/19/2020 4:49:38 AM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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https://youtu.be/FFY3chGyYzY


16 posted on 09/19/2020 4:51:07 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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“...my instrument of choice would be a flute......”

Or a harmonica...maybe even a Jews harp.


17 posted on 09/19/2020 4:59:23 AM PDT by moovova
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To: nickcarraway

Not a tuba.


18 posted on 09/19/2020 5:06:06 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: nickcarraway

I always preferred the girls that played the slide trombone.


19 posted on 09/19/2020 5:11:40 AM PDT by bankwalker (groupthink kills ...)
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To: Political Junkie Too; Chode
Thank You, I was just going to check that out. JR High Band had Myself and 2 Mexican brothers fighting it out for 1st Chair every week. The brothers were the youngest of 5 and all played the Sousaphone with the 2 eldest on the University of Texas Longhorn Marching Band so I had My work cutout for Me against those 2 in Class. We changed 1st Chair weekly. Too many people misidentify the Tuba vs Sousaphone.

And that concludes My contribution to Civilization for the day 😳🎶

20 posted on 09/19/2020 5:17:05 AM PDT by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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