[Trombone-l] VERY unusual brass band performance!

[Phil Burton]

I received this from the TubaEuph mail list. 

Phil 
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> From: TubaEuph at yahoogroups.com [mailto: TubaEuph at yahoogroups.com ] On Behalf 
> Of David Richoux 
> Sent: Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:13 PM 
> To: tubaeuph at yahoogroups.com 
> Subject: [TubaEuph] VERY unusual brass band performance! 
> 
> Hi all, 
> 
> I posted this over on Tubenet, but I figure some of you don't go 
> there... 
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYykpRRuHQM 
> 
> I especially like the highly modified Sousaphone, but the whole group 
> is quite fascinating! 
> 
> the designer of the costumes is a street performer called "Ulik, the 
> Mechanical Clown" and there are some clips of his performances (some 
> that are actually tuba related) at 
> www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvL5DOu3G2o 
> 
> The performers are Fanfare Le SNOB from France and you can see many 
> more clips and photos at their website http://www.fanfarelesnob.com/ 
> click on the Glissando button (top right) for this particular 
> variation of the band. Lots of photos, TV clips and info about the 
> instrument design - unfortunately the site does not seem to translate 
> into English using standard web translators, but you can figure most 
> of it out even without knowing French. 
> 
> Looks they are in London right now... 
> 
> Dave RIchoux 
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