Posted by Rick Denney on March 05, 2004 at 14:10:06:
In Reply to: Re: tenor tuba in The Planets recording posted by David Carter on March 05, 2004 at 12:42:05:
Furthermore, I'd bet that finding a rotary tenor tuba in England in the 1920's when Holst composed the work would be quite a challenge.
According to Bevan, Holst wrote the part originally in treble-clef, so there's not much doubt that he intended it to be played by a brass-band euphoniumist. He was a trombonist, and would have known the difference.
Rick "who suspects that 'tenor tuba' was intended in the general sense rather than the possibly then-proprietary term 'euphonium'" Denney