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Posted by Tim on January 09, 2003 at 18:12:26:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: is the Conn 56j posted by Rick Denney on January 09, 2003 at 17:17:40:

Just read something interesting thought I'd share it here.

This is from Schilke website

performers with different sized oral cavities will play the over all pitch of the same instrument differently. A good example of this occurred when Mr. Arnold Jacobs and Mr. A. Hirada of Japan were in my studio trying tubas. To obtain the same pitch, Mr. Jacobs had to have his slide all the way in, making the instrument on the extremely sharp side as his oral cavity was of such a tremendous size it lowered the pitch to the given pitch. However, Mr. Hirada, whose oral cavity is very small, had to pull his tuning slide to give approximately eight additional inches of tubing to the instrument in order to play in the same pitch.



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