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Almost 70 assembled and assorted tubas serenaded us Saturday at the Polk High School auditorium. This is one of about 20 "Tuba Christmases" that appear around the nation in December. The best-known was in Rockefeller Center in New York City, where they all started in 1974.
This was the 10th year for a Tuba Christmas in Polk County. The music was good, we all sang along on some of the carols , and we learned something about different kinds of tubas-- such as the Serpent at left. There were three guys playing serpents in the group. Some of the bells on the tubas face the front for recording or projecting to an audience while some face to the rear for leading a parade.The ages of the tuba players ranged from 12 to 86. This video shows some of the kinds of tubas.Listen to the tuba fans ooh and awh over the types.We'll go again next year.

Moonshine

While we were musing about the music the County Sheriff's guys made a domestic dispute call and found Phillip Pierce with 144 pints of moonshine at a house out on Henderson Road. The deputies decided that was more than he was likely to consume in one sittin' so they took him to jail. No word about where the still is located.Oh, and by the way, the last line in the story in our local paper says the sheriff's office plans to destroy the 'shine.
There was an "old time moonshiners reunion" down Highway No. 9 at New Prospect, SC in October but we missed it. There were a lot of bluegrass bands pickin' and singin' and, I guess, talking about moonshine. Surely they wouldn't be drinking it.