From: sasmith@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Four)
Subject: Hey!  TUBAS.....where are you???
Summary: Just a quick scan to find those sousaphones and tubas!
Keywords: lalalalalal
Reference: sasmith@mailbox.syr.edu
Organization: Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Distribution: usa
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 14:55:43 EST

Okay...I don't know about anyone else, but, I go to school at Syracuse
University, obviously I'm in the marching band "The PRIDE of the Orange",
and, well, I have a tendency to be a little too loud, and little too crazy,
and madly devoted to the tuba...which, of course, I only picked up half
way through the season.

Here's the scoop....I was playing picc (that's piccolo, we don't march
flutes!), and I was a rookie (a freshman to be exact).  I've never marched
and well, now I do.  But...I've been plahing picc for 5 years and the
tubas needed more players...so there were auditions.  Strenuous and mind
boggling....I think I've marched across the nation by the time I could
put the horn down at the end of it all...and eventually, I, and another
clarinet player, were transformed into tubas.....TADAH!!!  End of story.

So, here I am, sitting around listening to people fight about UCAL and
USC....but what about the northeast...or even the east for that matter?

SNOW...unpredictable weather...cold...I mean...DAMN COLD...but, taking that 
into consideration...it's great up here....but that's not the only reason
I'm on this newsgroup...I want to here from people...piccs..tubas..ANYBODY!!

But..I want to get in touch with tubas...because...well, I figured it out
somehow, that tubas are a different breed.   I mean...how many musical
sectionals do people go through...without playing and instead talking and
joking around...but we still overpower the band.  I guess there is a 
different bond for us--well, we sorta have an unofficial fraternity..
SIGMA TAU RHO--the Syracuse Tuba Republic...founded 5 years ago.  It
isn't chartered, and brothers and sisters from KKPsi and TBS aren't too
THRILLED with us wearing letters (we all have the same baseball hats with
our letters on the front and nicknames on the back).  We aren't anti-Greek,
but we are a brotherhood/sisterhood of musicians...more than that-of TUBAS!
It's hard...we're crazy, outa-control people...7 guys 2 girls!..and I want
to find out about other TUBAS!

Ya see, if anyone has any information about the National Tuba Organization,
please!!!  There ae a bunch of Tubas at SU that would love to join.  I
guess it's a bonding thing...like us.

Oh yeah...if tubas want to address me as a tuba...my nickname is Four...
because, as my brothers in STR said "The first time she drank with us (TUBAS)
she puked four times!"  It's true, so therefore I'm FOUR....and well,
I'm glad to be here.

Oh yeah...if there are any TUBAS on this thing from Virginia Tech, especially
from the tuba house.....I haven't gotten a chance to write!!!!  BUT PLEASE!!
get in contact with me!!!  I'm the one you kidnapped at the SU/VTech game!

So, to all of you marchers out there....catch SU at the Fiesta Bowl when
we go against Colorado (anyone out there, get a hold of me!)....JAN 1st!!

School calls....get a hold of me!!!  I'm not frightening, I'm just a TUBA!

Yep!!!
Love ya all with a shovel and many layers of clothing in Syracuse!

Four...the second girl in the tuba section!

(sasmith@mailbox.syr.edu)