# question for manhattan **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 18, 2001, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359 "2001-09-18T11:56:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359/41 "2001-09-21T18:23:21Z")
And what about us Electric Bass players? The instrument is smaller than a Double Bass, for sure, but have you ever tried lugging around a Bass Amp?? Mine has to weigh over 80lbs! Ahhh, fond memories of struggling in the Montréal Bus/Métro system with my Bass and Amp… People not moving from in front of the train/bus doors… Lovely! :rolleyes: And I think it`s fair to say most lower-register instrument players are grossly overlooked in most situations… Tuba, Double Bass, Electric Bass, and all other Bass Players of the World Unite! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359/42 "2001-09-21T18:35:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by k.os \* > Tuba, Double Bass, Electric Bass, and all other Bass Players of the World Unite! [sub]Ssshhsssh!! If you’re not quiet the percussionists will hear you and then they’ll get all riled up, too.[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![k.os](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@k.os](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k.os)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359/43 "2001-09-21T18:58:48Z")
😃 ---
**Author:** ![Abe\_Babe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3ab097/32.png) [@Abe\_Babe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abe_Babe)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2001, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359/44 "2001-09-21T19:39:00Z")
> [@](#): > > SHHHHH!! If you’re not quiet the percussionists will hear you and then they’ll get all riled up, too.\*\* Yeah, but those namby-pamby percussionists don’t have to carry their own instruments around. They have that little roll-up burrito of all their sticks. There’s a sexual innuendo joke in there somewhere, but my tiny brain just couldn’t come up with one. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2001, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359/45 "2001-09-22T19:42:19Z")
Quoth **Ukulele Ike** : > [@](#): > > Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww…gross! No wonder **Chronos** gets that weird buzzing tone of his in the upper registers. You want upper registers? Play a cornet. When you want E flat four octaves below middle C, call a _real_ bass tubist. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359/46 "2001-09-23T02:50:57Z")
You can play tuba in damn near any register: check out these examples from Howard Johnson and Gravity on THIS page: [Howard Johnson and Gravity](http://www.euronet.nl/users/tubaness/stlnmts.mp3) ([http://www.euronet.nl/users/tubaness/stlnmts.mp3](http://www.euronet.nl/users/tubaness/stlnmts.mp3)) And thanks to Karl Kleinsteuber (great tubist and also a member of Gravity) for providing these pages and samples. Great hijack, folks, but if this keeps up I’ll have to move the thread somewhere else, it ain’t ATMB. Where, I ain’t sure. MPSIMS around here much? Jenny your humble TubaDiva who admits to playing bass and percussion too, so there. PS I wish all I had was “a little rollup burrito;” it’s like housemoving doing any gig! ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359/47 "2001-09-23T03:17:46Z")
I’ll open a Tuba Admiration League thread in Cafe Society if you think I can get away with it. Do you have any spicy Tuba Diva pinups to go with those other links? It might help. ---
**Author:** ![TubaDiva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tubadiva/32/507_2.png) [@TubaDiva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TubaDiva)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2001, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359/48 "2001-09-23T03:46:20Z")
Okay, Shibb my dear, enough already. You been listening to that Spoofe character again, right? I would never carry a gun in my stocking top, it’s hard enough walking in these stilettos as it is. Jenny your humble TubaDiva [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-for-manhattan/82359.md?page=2)