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"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish) 01/06/2014 at 19:47 • Filed to: None

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And now I want my bari back, great. I needed to spend more money.

pdthedeuce > gmctavish needs more space 01/06/2014 at 20:09

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I played bari , too ... probably not as good as him .

MountainCommand > gmctavish needs more space 01/06/2014 at 21:06

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i used to play tenor, and alto. I wasnt cool enough for the bari...

gmctavish needs more space > MountainCommand 01/06/2014 at 23:13

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I went alto, tenor, then bari. So much fun, especially playing alto parts on it

MountainCommand > gmctavish needs more space 01/06/2014 at 23:18

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haha i think i still have permanent teeth marks on the inside of my lip from the mouth piece. Looking back, it really was fun. Maybe ill pull it out of the closet one day and play again. Still have my old alto.

gmctavish needs more space > MountainCommand 01/06/2014 at 23:27

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My favourite to play belonged to my high school, I wanna buy it from them. Like 50 year old bari that didn't have a low Ab, with the most wonderful patina of rust worn smooth. Best tone I've gotten out of anything

Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder > gmctavish needs more space 01/07/2014 at 05:38

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MountainCommand > gmctavish needs more space 01/07/2014 at 12:25

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The tenor i played belonged to my highschool too. As used as they were, youre right, they did sound much more impressive than the instrument i owned.

The bari always sounded much better when played impromptu, rather than piece music during class. The bari sax doesnt need rules, it needs to be let loose.

gmctavish needs more space > MountainCommand 01/07/2014 at 15:14

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I usually played the tenor in regular band class for that very reason, the bari was what I played in jazz band, it's way more in its element there

MountainCommand > gmctavish needs more space 01/07/2014 at 20:54

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Not to mention its awkwardly large to play for everything. Tenor is just right, alto is for short people haha.

I did jazz band for a year. But 2 years into HS i quit band cause of the new band teacher, and went to woodshop and robotics classes. Cant say i regret it, but every so often i have the urge to play again.

gmctavish needs more space > MountainCommand 01/08/2014 at 00:07

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I spent most of my time doing music stuff until I wound up in woodshop in gr12, was massively overqualified and bored, and happened to have a teacher with a thing for cars....we wound up doing a mild build on a rabbit cabrio with the intentions of racing it. And thus began my working on cars. Yay origin stories

MountainCommand > gmctavish needs more space 01/08/2014 at 13:26

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Dang, woodshop teachers are always interesting. Mine was this massively jacked younger guy in his early 30's, who had a big done up lifted dodge ram that he converted to run on biodiesel. He actually got to park the truck inside the school during winter haha. In the summer he rode in on his custom chopper. Also he was the only teacher in my memory to be able to show his tattoos (he had a sleeve). He let us get away with so much crap, but also let us do awesome things in wood shop.

Besides that, i never had a teacher i could talk with about cars. With one exception, my pysch college professor races in a 300hp class with a golf gti. He used to race vipers apparently but he said it got too expensive. He offered for me to go to the track with him for a race, but i flaked, and now i sorta have some regret...

gmctavish needs more space > MountainCommand 01/08/2014 at 22:18

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haha the last person I would expect to be converting to biodiesel would be a lifted truck owner, that's so random....

Also simply a golf gti being in the 300hp class sounds epic.

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gmctavish needs more space > Pabuuu, JDM car enthusiast & Italian parts hoarder 01/09/2014 at 15:27

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Goddammit I forgot this was a thing haha