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Message: [QUOTE="CaliCuse, post: 131686, member: 324"] Thank you. I appreciate thatWe here changed up oue Christmas tradition a bit ent to a fine steak House i La Canada named Taylor's You ca Google the pace . We had a semiprivate room decorated gracefully with lights to look like th night's stars and crystal snow flakes After on excellent martini with Beefeaters I was among the stars at warp speed . The prime rib was excellent if not a tad over cooked but otherwise up to their standards of excellence. I was thinking of you when the great tuba heist was in the news Being a trumpet man I fully respected the guys in the big wrap around brass and thequalit of ound thy create . Did the news make i back East? I on' believe thy wee ever found I'm guessing they are gracing om band' section outh of the border now.When I wa in chool. I neee 2 ceit fo my meter and found a beginning bras course. h neve aked ifI played before o I signed up Blowing past the tumpet and cornet piees. When I got to th Tuba my problem was that I couln't read the b muic. It s oun thi tim of ya o th impl ong were hritma thmd. I could play by ear and used the trumpet valve position. The professor figured out byy something I did that I wasn't reading the music and called me on it . I would lie to the guy so I admitted my stunt. He laughed and gave me my two credits anyway.With the deception over I always warmed up on a trumpet and blew my cover with the other students by pumping out some trumpet stuff of the day . Alittle Herb Alpert and Midnight in Moscow . Soon I got most of thekids trying to play along on some chord background. Lots of fun. I wanted nothing to do with the formal band in those days I was recently married and my career in banking wasabout to take a giant step as soon as I graduated so I declined all offers including one from my father-inlaw who was a drumcorp freak with the Reading Buccaneers who are still to this day a major player in that subculture [/QUOTE]

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