Re: Re: Re: Re: t.u.b.a. forever


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Posted by Jim Andrada on July 05, 2001 at 04:47:22:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: t.u.b.a. forever posted by Tracy H. on July 05, 2001 at 02:13:42:

Well, maybe it would help to

a) Distinguish between baritones (British) and euphoniums (which are quite different)

b) Think of a euphonium as a B-flat or tenor tuba ie pitched one octave above a BB-flat tuba, because both euphoniums and tubas are conical bore instruments, unlike trombones, trumpets, British baritones etc

And a tuba quartet is commonly made up of 2 euphoniums, a bass-tuba and a plain vanilla tuba, sometimes known as a contrabass tuba

And probably more to the point, a lot of people do play both.

Of course we could confuse things even more by thinking about Wagner tubas (normally played by french horn players) and fluegelhorns, which while sharing the conical bore with tubas (Could we think of them as b-flat or piccolo tubas?) are normally operated by trumpet players. And there's always the occasional French tuba in C to worry about. Not to mention the BBB-flat monster sub-contrabass tuba like the one I played so long ago. And if inclusion in an orchestra as opposed to a band were the criteria, where would that leave the Sousaphones, helicons etc?

Real life is never as neat and orderly as we'd like!




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