Brass Player Hats: Trumpet, Trombone & Tuba

Brass players have the strongest sense of tribe in the band, and the jokes have been in print for years. The one about the trombonist who can't swing and complains about the slide has been cited since 1999. Trumpet forums say trumpet players are like pirates, murder on the high Cs. "Don't Make Me Empty My Spit Valve On You" already sits on horn and trumpet tees, and "Bad to the Trombone" is a tee title elsewhere. Among players the French horn is usually just the horn, and the tuba carries its own quiet pride. TubaChristmas gives the low brass its own holiday. Harvey Phillips founded it in the 1970s, the carols are arranged by Alec Wilder, and Portland alone has drawn 300 or more players in earlier years. As organizer Chuck Bolton told OPB, most of the people who come are bass tubas, because they never play the melody in their school bands and here they get it about half the time. These brass player hats pair BRASS PLAYER, TRUMPET PLAYER and TROMBONE PLAYER badges with the spit valve warning, the condensation correction, a sharp trumpet, a horn with cracked notes in every key and TubaChristmas itself. The spit valve and trombone lines get a second colorway. Every design is custom embroidered on an unstructured dad hat. Wear your section, or give one to the player who still owns a mouthpiece.