Tuba Or Not Tuba
“We can’t all be first-violinists! Someone has to push wind through the tuba.”
“Take it easy, Bob. We’re just a little brass band. There are no first-violinists, and you’re the blowhard who volunteered to play the tuba.”
“Okay everyone, I know this is our first actual public concert, but we’ve been rehearsing for weeks. You guys are ready; I know you are.”
“I’ll tell you what though, if any of you are unsure that you can do it, just fake the motions until you feel comfortable to join in.”
The conductor dropped his baton….and was greeted with a crashing silence.
Got to Rochelle’s Addicted to Purple site and use her Wednesday photo as a prompt to write a complete 100 word story
Archon's Den 
That’s hilarious, Archon. 😀 — Suzanne
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Some of it might even be true, but it’s true that it is funny. 😀
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Yikes!
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Like a steer, they can only try. 🙂
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LOL They need to work on their confidence. Great story. 🙂
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I’m confident that they’ll improve. Thanx for reading. 🙂
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I spent the last summer in a small town in Vermont that had just such a band. Still laughing.
DJ
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My small Ontario town had a little band like this, but not since the 1940s/’50s. 😦 Glad you enjoyed yourself here. 🙂
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Sounds like some of my experiences, albeit none of them musical.
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….?? Nah! If I asked, you might tell me. 😯 La, La, La. (fingers in ears) 😉
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back in high school, I was quite the Triangle player. They even let me play the cowbell once!! Nice story
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Is that what they call the ‘rhythm method?’ 😕 🙄
I’m about halfway through ‘The Tomb,’ the first Repairman Jack book. I knew it was written in 1984, so I couldn’t understand references to I-Pods, CD players, and a 6-foot flat-screen. When I looked closer, I found I had the ‘Author’s Definitive Version’, rewritten in 2004 and originally re-released, titled Rashoki. 😯
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Enjoyable read.
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Thanx for stopping by. Feel free to sample any of my other stuff. It’s an eclectic mix, a little humor, some social commentary, a bit of old-time small-town history. 🙂
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Will do!
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Funny story!
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It is….if you didn’t pay for tickets to this concert. 😦
APPEARING HERE NEXT WEEK – Milli Vanilli. 😯 🙄
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Silence is golden but not from a band… great one!
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“Is this a mime show, or did I just go deaf??!” 😕
Thanx for stopping in. 🙂
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I was afraid this was going to happen when the conductor gave them permission! Funny – only not when you expect a little bit more from your band.
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What’s the critical mass for insecurity??
Thanx for stopping by. 🙂
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They could have made use of a CD backing track to cover the silences. Funny.
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Joe Biden reciting ‘The Advantages Of Obamacare?’ Or George W. Bush’s Greatest Hits?? 😕 😯
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Dear Archon,
Music to the public’s ears. Great story and illustrative of what happens when no one steps forward to lead.
Aloha,
Doug
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Let George do it….but George is off sick today. 😯 Thanx Doug.
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Dear Archon,
Now there’s an honest group of musicians. Classy title. Good story.
Shalom,
Rochelle
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The next one in iambic pentameter. 🙄
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Had the opposite experience as a spectator at my first proper football/soccer match – realised my daughter and I were the only ones in the entire away-supporters’ stand holding on the last note of one of the (relatively clean) chants, like we were in the church choir.
Lovely story!
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Thanx. So is yours. New definition for soccer hooligan – “Lady, will you please shut up?” 😯
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LOL, time for a rethink. Very funny, enjoyed this 🙂
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Mission accomplished then, 🙂
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Are you taking potshots at motivational speakers, Archon?
😉 Nice one, drew a sincere laugh, Tay.
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I wasn’t….but it sounds like a good blog theme. 😕
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Great title, great story! I loved it! I may also have been a suspiciously silent player of the synthetic tuba on the keyboard at a one week summer camp where I didn’t know I was going to be in a band concert…my volume was turned all the way down.
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Where did my reply go??! 😕
That story is wayyy funnier than mine. Thanx for stopping by and laying it on me. 😀
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Oh my, you made me laugh. Again. Thank you!
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