7.06.2011

Blog for a work research - 15 days: Tuba 9, the flugelhorn

The last major section of the curriculum is the ''hobbies'' one as it's the first eye into your personality.
The advices are to add value with it so my paper curriculum provides my ''theory'' activities about my expertise (I write blogs on design and urban design, I speak for conferences...) and my association's activism as a proof of my ability invovlment.


I guess that being pincipal treasurer of an association for former students AND board-member in a 24 workers structure may be a risk of scaring a recruiter if he thinks that I would spend my time for these. Sure that my evenings are loaded but I won't let one of these associations to stop my work.


Note that some people can entitle this section ''others'' which would give me the idea of finding in anything and everything. Some of them have this problem as they say that they love movies, or music, or watching the poppies grow. If I were a recruiter I would ask about the preferred music, but if I have an answer like ''I have very eclectic tastes, I listen everything from hip-hop to RnB and Djs...'' I would find no personality and I will fly away!

However, I deleted the initial wrotes about sport (I prefer in the mountains, but you know, in Nantes, there is no mountain) and music (I have neither a national diploma neither a well-known band). But music is my really hobby as I play for 23 years and it's my social life as I meet people (outside a professionnal context) only with bands.
All that is why I started a ''gonzo'' section on this curriculum-blog with the story of a tuba bought in a flea market but with a serious work to do. Since that purchase we have tuba players for the band so the tuba wasn't restored! Now I have a good idea to revive this story as I offered a little brother for my tuba: a flugelhorn!


It's a 1932 Bb Couesnon, when it was the absolute for jazzmen (before the valve trumpet).


It could be a Monopole, the most prestigious model, or a Conservatoire, the studies model. In any case I falled in love with this soft appearance, for both visual and sound.

It needs care but I will do only the strictily necessary to play. One valve was really hard to have then someone who knows someone who knows Attila (not the barbarian but an instruments careover) took it to him... and it seems not to be the right valve (in fact, not for this model, but it's enough to play). As I understood, the musical specialist could think it's a Monopole, so I'm still more happy!


Now I have to take out the slides because the condensation is concentrated in here before to arrive at the water-key (so I can not play more than 5 minutes without a water-sound). And also the low fixation rings, which were not seized but Attila has screwed it too strong for me (I now know why it's his name)!


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