The Tuba and Piccolo
A takeoff on The Owl and the Pussycat18 total reviews
Comment from Spitfire
What a toot--I mean hoot. Favorite line: "The thought that he loved her? He towered above her!" I think you invented a new word: tubalos. Inspiration comes from weird places.
reply by the author on 05-Mar-2023
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What a toot--I mean hoot. Favorite line: "The thought that he loved her? He towered above her!" I think you invented a new word: tubalos. Inspiration comes from weird places.
Comment Written 05-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 05-Mar-2023
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Thank you so much for the great review and the stars! I'm trying to picture what a tubalo would sound like. Probably a strange sound.
Comment from Ric Myworld
As I've often said, when it comes to poetry, I wouldn't know a sonnet from sorbet. But even an untrained ear can read and enjoy the rhyme, meter, and verses they can't write. To be touched my another's sensitivities. Every time I heard about a piccolo, it takes me back to an old joke I heard as a kid.
Thanks for sharing.
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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As I've often said, when it comes to poetry, I wouldn't know a sonnet from sorbet. But even an untrained ear can read and enjoy the rhyme, meter, and verses they can't write. To be touched my another's sensitivities. Every time I heard about a piccolo, it takes me back to an old joke I heard as a kid.
Thanks for sharing.
Comment Written 04-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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Thanks for the great review, Ric! Alright, I'll take the bait. What's the piccolo joke you heard? (And please use whatever language you learned it in!)
Comment from Wayne Fowler
Very clever. Nice work.
I like the 'feel' of it, rhythmic.
I'm not too sure what a tubalo would look or sound like, though. Maybe a band unto itself?
But the ring, pray tell, the ring?
Best wishes.
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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Very clever. Nice work.
I like the 'feel' of it, rhythmic.
I'm not too sure what a tubalo would look or sound like, though. Maybe a band unto itself?
But the ring, pray tell, the ring?
Best wishes.
Comment Written 04-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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Thanks very much, Wayne. The ring was a nose ring worn by the horn player (as opposed to the horn). These instruments don't play themselves. :)
Comment from Jesse James Doty
This is clever and I could picture the band instruments singing along. They could all sing together as one of them could narrate the piece. It is just an idea that came to me as I read this fun silly song. Thank you for bringing alive the Owl and the Pussycat poem!
I have never read it before but you can bet I will read it now!
Jesse
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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This is clever and I could picture the band instruments singing along. They could all sing together as one of them could narrate the piece. It is just an idea that came to me as I read this fun silly song. Thank you for bringing alive the Owl and the Pussycat poem!
I have never read it before but you can bet I will read it now!
Jesse
Comment Written 04-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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Thanks, Jesse. I like that idea.
It's a very old poem, but I never heard it as a child. The first time I read it was in a little Golden Book that we had bought for our kids. It has a silliness and a rhythm that just stuck with me.
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Yes, I could picture it as a song sung to little children. As I said, I will look up this book and read it. I am sure I will enjoy it immensely.
Comment from bob cullen
This is so clever. Like good music it all flows beautifully together. You've cooked up a wonderful tune here. And the lyrics roll with a rollocking beat.
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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This is so clever. Like good music it all flows beautifully together. You've cooked up a wonderful tune here. And the lyrics roll with a rollocking beat.
Comment Written 04-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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Thanks for the great review, Bob. It was that wonderful rhythm and the silliness of the original "The Owl and the Pussycat" that inspired me to write my own version. I had the idea of a tuba and piccolo getting together for a long time, but then it came to me one day to use the rhythm of The O and the P which I've always loved.
Comment from tfawcus
How well you have caught the spirit of this, my favourite childhood poem. The more often I return to Lear's poems, the more respect I have for his nonsense and the echoes that take us through the zany silliness into a deeply emotional world beyond.
I think every orchestra needs a comic instrument and your tubalo fits the bill perfectly! Gerard Hoffnung would have delighted in drawing one.
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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How well you have caught the spirit of this, my favourite childhood poem. The more often I return to Lear's poems, the more respect I have for his nonsense and the echoes that take us through the zany silliness into a deeply emotional world beyond.
I think every orchestra needs a comic instrument and your tubalo fits the bill perfectly! Gerard Hoffnung would have delighted in drawing one.
Comment Written 04-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 04-Mar-2023
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Thank you so much, Tony for this great review and the 6 stars! I never heard "The Owl and the Pussycat" until I was an adult and read it to my children. I have fond memories of AA Milne when I was a child, though. We had his book When We Were Very Young on our bookshelf, and I used to pull it down and read it constantly. I can still recite "Halfway Down" to this day.
Comment from Carol Hillebrenner
This is a cute poem that tells a fun story. Apparently, they played well together as they produced tubalos. I am not much of a poet, but this is an enjoyable poem.
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2023
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This is a cute poem that tells a fun story. Apparently, they played well together as they produced tubalos. I am not much of a poet, but this is an enjoyable poem.
Comment Written 03-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2023
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Thanks so much, Carol!
Comment from jmdg1954
Huh. A tubalo. Quite the mixture of instrument sizing!
Honestly I'm not familiar with The Owl and the Pussycat, but I didn't need to be because your poem can stand on its own.
Great flow making for an easy, fun read and unforced rhymes.
Great writing, Jim.
John
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2023
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Huh. A tubalo. Quite the mixture of instrument sizing!
Honestly I'm not familiar with The Owl and the Pussycat, but I didn't need to be because your poem can stand on its own.
Great flow making for an easy, fun read and unforced rhymes.
Great writing, Jim.
John
Comment Written 03-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2023
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I debated whether it should be a tubalo or a piccuba and opted for the former. Thanks for the great review, John.
Comment from royowen
What a magnificent ending, creating a new orchestral instrument, a tubalo, now this seems like a plan to me, you've done a super job with this free verse poem, good poetic devices to make a great poem, well done Jim, blessings Roy
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2023
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What a magnificent ending, creating a new orchestral instrument, a tubalo, now this seems like a plan to me, you've done a super job with this free verse poem, good poetic devices to make a great poem, well done Jim, blessings Roy
Comment Written 03-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2023
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There must be some software somewhere where you could mix together the sound of a piccolo and a tuba. It might be an interesting sound! Thanks for the good review, Roy!
Comment from Sarah Das Gupta
I love this. You've got just the right form and rhythm. It's a great idea of a musical affair between these two instruments. Why shouldn't you 'cross'
instruments as you do dogs?
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2023
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I love this. You've got just the right form and rhythm. It's a great idea of a musical affair between these two instruments. Why shouldn't you 'cross'
instruments as you do dogs?
Comment Written 03-Mar-2023
reply by the author on 03-Mar-2023
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If only I could draw, I might have been able to come up with a good picture of a tubalo for the artwork. Thanks for the great review, Sarah and for the 6 stars!