Pfft, at least you played a large role in most of your pieces, Forest Bro. I played the tuba and loved it.... and I shattered the shallow belief that the prerequisite for playing tuba was to be fat. For some reason, people thought "LOL TUBARS ARE BIG SO THE PLAIERS MUST BE PHAT TOO!"
But.... the bullcrap with it was all our parts were backgrounds or support, of course. We did have some valve-rippin' solos throwing 16th and 32nd notes EVERYWHERE or we got the song started off surpassing epic proportions in the process, but other than that, it wasn't much. Also, I did like the fact that we out-ranged virtually all the brass instruments. (I'm speaking of the range of notes we could play, staff-wise. Correct me if I'm wrong, but being 8-10 ledger lines below the staff [for our typical F-tuned tubas and also nearing a sub-sonic state] or 7-8 ledger lines above the staff was definitely possible and sometimes required in select pieces.) That's some hella range. Of course, skilled players could and probably already have extended that range.
