Word: tuba
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...many of our parents made us take music lessons? Many of us endured piano lessons and some were even forced to take tuba or clarinet lessons. (Now that's something most of us should be thankful for avoiding...
...many, our love for music as a generation was catalyzed by our music lessons as impressionable youngsters. We either fell in love with tuba music and ran into the sores to buy Yanni CD's or we were dying to run the heck away from music like that, rebelling by listening to rock and roll bands, especially groups with very different ideas of how to use musical instruments...
When we come home and we retreat to our bedrooms after saying a short "hello" to the parents, we don't necessarily run into our closets and find that old tuba and play it while dad sings a nursery rhyme along with us. Instead, we usually run into our backpacks, where can find the convenient walk- man and drain our parents' complaints away with the distorted sounds of Pearl...
...1940s bandleader with a Dead End Kid's mug and a wardrobe of cacophonous checks and plaids. Jones had fun with music. He took a sedate standard like Laura or Chloe, played it straight for a minute and then revved it up double-time and orchestrated it for tuba, kazoo and other instruments that mimic indiscreet bodily functions. Then he set this raucous pastiche to a junkyard syncopation of washboards, cap pistols, Klaxon and bicycle horns, pie pans and garbage cans -- augmented by bird whistles, brays and tag lines from radio ads ("Super Suds!" "Bromo Seltzer!" "Beeeeee Ohhhhhh!") -- until...
...only non-Christmas tune the band played was a stirring version of "The 10,000 Men of Harvard." Apparently stirred by the rhythms himself, a tuba player marched out into the audience, putting the mouth of the instrument over several audience members' heads...