Good to hear from you Big Al just stumbled across this page when i was researching bands in Belfast, and read your post. Seems an eternity since we all piled into my Dad's old escort estate car and headed off to the band practice on a Friday night, my grandfather Bob was still alive then in the mid-seventies and as you rightly pointed out still playing the tuba although i believe that he originally played cornet when he joined the band i guess it must have been in the late thirties or early forties? Dad known as Bertie is still going at the right old age of 87 this year and living in Portrush. Sadly when the band disbanded mainly due to the troubles i joined Ballyduff Silver who had just won the 2nd grade brass November contest. Just reading some of the other posts i remember meeting Malky and hearing him play he was a hell of a drummer, Bob Agnew was conducting the band then and Robbie Adair took the band for the November contest the only won i played in with the band and i played timpani for the piece Overture to Rienzi can't remember what year it was but we lost to Grosvenor Hall, keep safe best. look forward to keeping in touch, now living in England