Ray Drummond discusses his decision to become a musician

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Ray Drummond discusses the tuba

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Ray Drummond discusses his musical influences

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Q: “Did you ever play any tuba?”

A: Ray Drummond: “No, I never played tuba or sousaphone. The closest I ever came to that was playing baritone horn. So you know, it's just kind of like trombone range, you know, French horn also which is about the same range. So I never gave, you know, the bass a real, serious glance. I always enjoyed, you know, I grew up listening to a lot of jazz. My father had been a jazz musician before he went back in the army because I grew up as an army brat.”

Interviewer: “Oh, yeah?”

Ray Drummond: “And so we were moving all over the place and et cetera, et cetera, you know, whatever that entails and I just wound up being asked to do the bass for my concert, the summer concert. He had too many French horn players and not enough string bass players and he knew if I said yes, this is my instructor, that I would take it home and learn it well enough at least to make it through the concert. You know, which is what I did and it took. It's just something that I guess I was fated, you know, I was just a natural kind of bass player.”