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tuba tootling
Jan. 26th, 2006 12:49 amThis evening was the first concert of the three+ day Army Band Tuba-Euphonium Conference, down at Ft. Myer Army Base near the Pentagon. I know I am going to get a whole lot of crocheting and knitting done, since I will not be watching the mouthpieces and fingering techniques and whatnot nearly as closely as S will. This evening's concert was fun, and we got a chance to meet up with an old friend we hadn't seen in over 10 years, back when he used to play tuba in the Austin Symphonic Band with us - he's living in WV now, so he's only 75 miles or so away from DC also. I suppose we may eventually get tired of devoting so much of our retirement years to chasing band music around, but it hasn't happened yet!
Oh, and my new Pro-Tec soft case for the baritone saxophone finally arrived, too - which will make carrying that to rehearsal a lot easier. Weighs about half what a hard case does. When I ordered it, I used my PO Box address, as I usually do; they delayed shipping to tell me they had to have a street address, couldn't ship to a PO Box. So where did they finally ship it to, two weeks later? You got it, the post office. Ah well, it's here. It's got zipper pockets, and padding, and stuff!
Now to go make a quart of iced tea for tomorrow - the base only has one place that will sell iced tea to civilians, the base bowling alley, and they were out of tea this evening! Must not let that happen again.
Oh, and my new Pro-Tec soft case for the baritone saxophone finally arrived, too - which will make carrying that to rehearsal a lot easier. Weighs about half what a hard case does. When I ordered it, I used my PO Box address, as I usually do; they delayed shipping to tell me they had to have a street address, couldn't ship to a PO Box. So where did they finally ship it to, two weeks later? You got it, the post office. Ah well, it's here. It's got zipper pockets, and padding, and stuff!
Now to go make a quart of iced tea for tomorrow - the base only has one place that will sell iced tea to civilians, the base bowling alley, and they were out of tea this evening! Must not let that happen again.
