00:02Hi, Sam.
00:03Hi, Fred.
00:03I'd like you to know my television neighbor.
00:05Hi.
00:05Sam Palafian.
00:07Come right in.
00:07Good.
00:10I want my friends to hear your tuba.
00:13Oh, a tuba's a great instrument.
00:14It's a big one.
00:16This tuba weighs more than 30 pounds.
00:1830 pounds?
00:20Sure.
00:20Pull up a stool here, and I'll play it for you.
00:35What low note that is.
00:37Yeah, it really is.
00:39But you play more than just boom, boom, boom, boom.
00:43Right.
00:43You can play songs, but when you play songs, you have to really breathe a lot.
00:48Watch.
00:48I'll play you a song on the tuba, but it takes a lot of air.
00:52A lot.
01:25Oh, does that make you feel good when you play like that?
01:28Oh, it's really relaxing.
01:30It's like going out and playing real hard on the playground, and then afterwards you're
01:34real tired, but it's a really nice kind of tired, just like when you play the tuba.
01:39Same feeling.
01:40Wish I knew how to do that.
01:42Well, how would you like to try to do it?
01:45Be glad to try.
01:46Well, come on.
01:46Sure.
01:47Sit in the tuba chair.
01:48All right.
01:50And hold on to it.
01:51Good, because I told you it's heavy.
01:53There you go.
01:54That's good.
01:55And then you've got to change this, because this is a mouthpiece, and each person has
02:01their own.
02:02I see.
02:02So that's mine.
02:03And I have a spare here, and we're going to let you use this right here like that.
02:07You put it in the tuba, and then remember that you have to take a big breath to blow
02:11it.
02:14Nothing comes out.
02:16Well, that's because when you blow it like that, it's okay.
02:20You know, that fills the tuba out, but in order to get sound, you blow through buzzing
02:24lips.
02:29That's right.
02:30So you take a big breath and buzz your lips like that.
02:41Oh, that makes your lips tickle.
02:43Did you know that?
02:45But this is such a big instrument.
02:46I don't see how a child could play that.
02:49No, when you're a child, you play a real small tuba.
02:52And then when you get to be 12 or 13, you can fill up a whole tuba with air.
02:56Oh, who's that?
02:57Oh, that must be Dave.
02:59We have a rehearsal today.
03:00Come on in.
03:04This is really heavy.
03:06Hi, Sam.
03:06Hi.
03:07Hello, Fred.
03:08Hi, Dave.
03:09I've been playing the tuba.
03:10It's fun.
03:11I'd like you to know my television neighbor.
03:13Hi.
03:14This is Dave Ohanian, and this is his French horn.
03:17This is a French horn.
03:19Let me play a few notes for you so you see what it sounds like.
03:21Please.
03:31It has a very mellow sound.
03:33Oh, it's beautiful.
03:34We should get going to rehearsal, Dave.
03:37Well, before you go, would you play something together?
03:39I'd like to hear both the French horn and the tuba together.
03:42Sure.
03:42You know, that song that I played for you on the tuba is part of a piece that we all
03:47do together.
03:47And we could play you that right now.
03:49Oh, good.
03:50Want to hear that?
03:51That's the handle piece we were working on.
03:53Listen for the tuba and the French horn together.
03:58Here we go.
03:58Alright.
03:58Hold on.
03:58Oh, my God.
