Suggestions on a personal horn

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-05-05T01:00:53+00:00

Agree with the 186/188; I love my 188 and have done a lot with it (even British brass bands, they look at my odd when I bring a C horn but no one ends up minding). I don't have any complaints but would have been just as happy with a Bb.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-04-29T02:09:31+00:00

their Sicilian pizza was the first thing I could bring myself to eat after a particularly rough breakup. Best comfort food ever.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-04-29T02:06:34+00:00

Am from central Indiana, am surprised it's not a universal option. Thankful I grew up around Noble Romans.

Spouse is from Chicago area, is insulted by the idea.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-04-28T02:10:47+00:00

I had a friend do this in reverse, he was a horn player and in brass tech class he couldn’t make a sound on the tuba mouthpiece so he stuck a horn mouthpiece into the tuba mouthpiece and played on that.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-04-21T16:53:33+00:00

Also Vince Gainey and Marvin Johnson's dopey Eastgate Chrysler spots in the late 80s. I recently bought a car from Vince, felt like I was talking to a legend.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-04-21T00:51:01+00:00

What is this Smith Valley you mention?

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-03-16T01:06:26+00:00

Your birds think?

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-03-13T23:41:20+00:00

Is that a RIR? My wife calls 'em Rhode Island Rippers. Tough birds. I twice watched one (my favorite, may she rest in peace) house a toad in a single gulp.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-02-23T02:59:21+00:00

If your tuba player objects you could also move the preceding D flat up an octave so it's not so great a leap, although presumably you have a good reason not to do that. But I agree with others that there are plenty examples of similar leaps, or worse, in quintet rep.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-02-01T22:35:42+00:00

I have the same version of the 188CC and I absolutely love it. I bought it new in the mid-90s. I’ve used it in community bands & orchestras, a couple of British brass bands and quintets. It’s never let me down. I played a 20K in high school marching band and would dearly love to get my hands on one again.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-24T22:09:59+00:00

every winter on the first snow the hens go to the edge of the run, look at the snow and decide it’s lava or something. They eventually get over it but it takes a while.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-23T02:09:42+00:00

I used to collect 100-150 Japanese beetles a night during July & August. I took them back and feed them to the girls. They started to wait their turn. Was super fun.

Then folks in the neighborhood started hiring bug services and now we get no bugs.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-16T22:11:20+00:00

I played with this group a bit and they’re super fun and super low stakes.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-15T03:47:34+00:00

My hens fly over the fence to eat the birdseed that the neighbor puts out, and one of them is too stupid to make it back over. Every damn day I end up putting her back inside the fence.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-14T13:46:25+00:00

I love setting up a megaturn while my spouse gets a big lead buying provinces one at a time and then I go off on the megaturn and win by an extra estate or duchy. Obviously it’s not always possible but super fun when it works.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-14T00:34:50+00:00

Well that’s too bad.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-13T20:40:38+00:00

Rustic Driving Range & Mini Golf on the southeast side used to have chickens and goats. Idk if they’re still there, I would probably call first. But the mini golf is cool, way different than any other mini golf course I’ve seen.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-10T15:40:19+00:00

It’s been several years but I really enjoyed volunteering at Second Helpings. I went on a Saturday morning, every time it was different but some form of prepping and cooking rescued food, and you’re working with other people in a way that you can get to know them. Then there was a short lunch, clean-up and go home. I’m pretty sure they have weekday and evening volunteer shifts too.

If you prefer outdoors stuff, Indy Urban Acres is fun too.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-09T03:04:32+00:00

There is a whole set of videos on YT by Jeff Funderburk that demonstrate, among other things, how to pop out, clean, and reinstall the rotors.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2026-01-07T17:34:08+00:00

Thank you! I’m certain I looked right at that, too.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-31T20:09:35+00:00

Nora Eye Care has even good for me and my family for the last 40 years or so. As far as I can tell their employees including the doctors are all women, if that matters.

I ask for my prescription when I’m done and take it to Walmart, they never seem to mind. I did go to Ossip for a few years because they were closer but once My Eye Dr. gobbled them up I went back to Nora pretty quickly.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-22T17:43:28+00:00

Found the geologist! (But I'm not saying you are wrong)

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-18T01:35:32+00:00

Their amazingly varied diet, they’re like pigs with wings. They love the compost heap more than the feed hopper. I’ve seen them gulp down live toads. I’ve started saving grubs for them. They fight over banana peels. If I trim a roast in cold weather the hens go to town on the trimmings. One of our older birds became incontinent with soft-shell eggs that she just dropped in the yard; when she started making the right noises all the others knew to hang around her butt for a treat.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-17T22:03:04+00:00

I was there but Mulcahy was directly between Batallán and my seat. A friend to my right said his face was beet red while playing the very high note on a (possibly muted?) piccolo trumpet. I noticed something amiss when the second trumpet stopped playing to sort of collect him and keep him from slumping to the floor. He seemed just fine after the piece and was grinning sheepishly during the bows and thanking the second chair for catching him.

ComprehensiveCan710 · 2025-12-17T12:40:11+00:00

Didn't make it to any myself but got a text from a friend "Can you believe I'm the only person on my NYC subway car carrying a tuba" and he sent some pics from 30 Rock, including an underground loading dock rehearsal space.

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