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TUGGER meet up! Jan 18! Orlando

ronandjoan said:
Nice to have a good group coming and perhaps some more?

Let me also tell everyone that The King’s Brass group will be performing Jan 17 in Kissimmee. They are excellent, we go whenever we can. Free concert too ( donation only, if you want.).

They’ll be at
Good Samaritan Community Church
1441 Hoeger Circle
Kissimmee, FL 34746
7 pm.
Www.Kingsbrass.org

We have 7 brass players in our immediate family so we love hearing brass ensembles
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We're looking forward to going to the concert! Our son plays the tuba in the Parma (Ohio) Symphony. Our DIL is a music teacher. She plays the French horn, the piano, the banjo and a number of other instruments. Our granddaughter started playing the trombone this year in her school's 5th grade band.
 
Jan M. said:
We're looking forward to going to the concert! Our son plays the tuba in the Parma (Ohio) Symphony. Our DIL is a music teacher. She plays the French horn, the piano, the banjo and a number of other instruments. Our granddaughter started playing the trombone this year in her school's 5th grade band.
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Wonderful! Our grandson auditioned for the tuba place in Kings Brass this year and was the runner-up. So maybe another year. We have a Dungey brass quartet and quintet sone of whom are professionals too, so much fun!!!

Alan Cole, AwayWeGi is a great French horn player and will be attending too!!
 
ronandjoan said:
Wonderful! Our grandson auditioned for the tuba place in Kings Brass this year and was the runner-up. So maybe another year. We have a Dungey brass quartet and quintet sone of whom are professionals too, so much fun!!!

Alan Cole, AwayWeGi is a great French horn player and will be attending too!!
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The Dungey family is musical for sure, with a number of accomplished players in the clan, including a granddaughter who was an experienced trumpet soloist as a tiny tot & now is an accomplished player as a young adult.

As for me, at age 80 I still play. I may be over the hill, but at least I'm not yet all the way to the bottom of the downslope. The peak of my accomplishment was when I was in my early 40s & taking lessons from Dan Carter, who played 4th horn in the National Symphony Orchestra at the time. Near the end of a lesson, Dan turned to me & held the tips of his thumb & forefinger about an inch apart & said, "Alan, you're about that far away from being a good horn player."l I took it as a major serious compliment & was virtually walking on air all the rest of the day.

Playing horn is featured in a 2006 TUG-BBS game I participated in -- Two Truths & A Lie.

Click here for my 2 + 1.

For my confession about what's true & what's false, click here.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
TUG Meet-Up Reminder --

Place -- Golden Corral, 8707 Vineland Avenue, Orlando FL 32821
Date -- January 18, 2023
Time -- starting 3PM & staying till they throw us out.

The Chief Of Staff will be bringing re-usable name tags, to help everyone keep track of who's who.

Plus, every time you come back from the serving area with seconds or dessert, etc., go to a different table from where you sat before. That way, everybody gets face-to-face time with more different TUG folks than by staying anchored to the same place.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
We are here in Orlando. You picked a day when our favorite restaurant has two-for-one on our favorite meal, it's BOGO pulled pork at Smokey Bones. It's every Wednesday. Darn! But we will forgo our usual Wednesday meal and attend.

Better to have name tags with our TUG names because I don't know many people by their first names.
 
rickandcindy23 said:
We are here in Orlando. You picked a day when our favorite restaurant has two-for-one on our favorite meal, it's BOGO pulled pork at Smokey Bones. It's every Wednesday. Darn! But we will forgo our usual Wednesday meal and attend.

Better to have name tags with our TUG names because I don't know many people by their first names.
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Smokey bones is great! I wish I was in Orlando next weekend.
 
CPNY said:
Smokey bones is great! I wish I was in Orlando next weekend.
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I would love to meet you.

Looking forward to next Wednesday. Rick says I will be dragging him to this meetup. Not really, he had a good time before and will again.
 
rickandcindy23 said:
I would love to meet you.

Looking forward to next Wednesday. Rick says I will be dragging him to this meetup. Not really, he had a good time before and will again.
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Same! One of these days we will in Orlando!
 
For those going to hear the Kings Brass performance 7PM on Jan. 17, I phoned the church office to make sure the event is still happening as scheduled.

It is. (Yay ! )

There is just one -- 1 -- security station for entrance to the church neighborhood, the church office person said.

The address for that is 4197 South Orange Blossom Trail, Kissimmee FL 34746 -- not Orlando FL, where the same street number is someplace completely different.

-- Alan Cole, McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.​
 
Looking forward to everyone Wednesday afternoon 3 p.m. !
We will be meeting at the Golden Corral On Vineland for early dinner:
8707 Vineland Avenue
Orlando, FL 32821
At 3 pm..
we can stay as late as we wish!!!

Look for us in a group in a corner. We'll try to be looking for people looking for people -- LOL.

Remember try to meet everyone by moving to another table with every new plate of food.

Ron and Joan
 
We probably will not be there for personal reasons. I wish all of you the best. Enjoy the food and fellowship!

We need to get back home as soon as our car will get us there. Our family needs us.
 
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We are unable to go today. Have a great time and take photos!
Frank and Terry Castiglia
 
Oh my, so sorry
 
It is fellowship time in Orlando. Please enjoy your dinner and the fellowship time.
 
Oh oh, too busy talking , talking.. forgot about the photos
 
There were about 15 attendees. Six of our regulars had last minute personal almost emergencies to take care of and thus, we’re unable to come. It was a very friendly group and we all talked a lot.
 
So glad you all had a good time! Hope the missing six who had family emergencies find that things are improving back home.

Dori
 
Sorry we missed it this year!

Any rough guidelines for the date of next year’s TUG meetup, so I can book our WDW visit around it? Such as, third Wednesday? We’ll be booking in February for January 2024 so we can get our Boardwalk view!
 
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