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Re: Symphonic Sound

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Subject: Re: Symphonic Sound
From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 23 May 1998 15:33:16 +0100 (BST)
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On Fri, 22 May 1998, Matt LaFontaine wrote:

> Orchestral tuba playing requires the tubist to have a wide range of
> dynamic and tonal levels. They can be required to play as delicately as a
> violin playing pizz or as heavily as a bass drum playinf fff in a Sousa
> march. Also, orchestral tuba playing requries the musician to blow

And there we go worrying about peoples misconceptions of brass bands!  Did
you know that Sousa's bass drummer was the highest paid member of the
band?  He could obviously do much more than just whack things hard....

> significantly louder at all except the highest and lowest dynamic ranges
> since he/she has many more instruments to play against than in the brass
> band (and there's only one or two tubas in an orchestra also!). Very
> rarely does the brass band tuba section need to blow their b---s through
> the bell of the horn (although that doesn't stop some of them ;).

<snip> 

> Regards,
> Matt LaFontaine

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  Alastair Wheeler	 
  Euphonium & Trombone				   Fundamental Brass
  Bass Trombone				  City of Oxford Brass Band
  alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx	http://www.new.ox.ac.uk/~alastair
  "I am following my fish"


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