The Bluebonnet Brass, a group nominally based here in Fort Worth, played a dynamite concert a couple of weeks ago with their lady tuba player showing off in full splendor. She said that in junior high school she switched to the tuba so she could sit in the back row where the boys were. A decision she never regretted, and a style indistinguishable from that of the men she was playing with. That same concert series is presenting a renaissance concert next month. I'll have to watch for any men playing the virginal. Aaron J. Rabushka [log in to unmask] http://www.cowtown.net/users/arabushk/