Re: Re: Basses and Contra B.


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Posted by Frederick J. Young on May 23, 2002 at 16:43:45:

In Reply to: Re: Basses and Contra B. posted by Rick Denney on May 23, 2002 at 16:22:37:

The fundamental of the tubas is undoubtedly lowest among brass instruments. However, F tubas posess almost no fundamental below the bass clef staff. CC tubas fail badly about two lines below the staff and BBb tubas are almost as poor. The reason is that the ratio of the bell diameter to the tubing diameter is much smaller for tubas than for cornets or euphoniums. If you take the typical tuba tone and reproduce it two octaves higher it sounds like a bad harmonica rather than a cornet or flugelhorn. Tuba designers have broken the well established principles of similitude to make light and compact instruments. As Tucci once said a tuba is a brass rather than a bass instrument!


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