Posted by Gareth on May 10, 2001 at 14:50:57:
In Reply to: Re: Re: When did F become Eb? posted by Lew on May 10, 2001 at 05:54:52:
Basically English Brass Bands hastened the change to EEb Tubas,as previous followups have said,every village,town,factory had Brass Bands,at one point in the early 20th century there were over 60,000 of them.No recorded music you see.
So it makes sence that with that many people playing EEb tubas they would find themselves being used in orchestras.Incidentally the band i used to play for has pictures of serpents being used in the late 1800`s ,but as another contributor has said the Tuba projects so much better,but many bands clung on to them for a while because of the cost of replacing them.village bands did not have a lot of dosh.