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Re: Aw jees Norm...

On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, Adrian Drover wrote:

> On 13 Jun, Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > D'oh!  The rite has 2 bass tubas.  The second player needs a range from
> > pedal D to super Gb, quite hard.... (concert)
> 
> Geez!, I hope that's not the same super Gb that Maynard plays.

Not quite, but it's still over 3 octaves range, and the Gbs are approached
by loads of octave leaps from middle F (yes, I know :)

I just bought a Maynard CD, actually.  Loads of gratuitous silly notes,
and your arrangment of McArthur I take it too.

> > Ignoring works with tenor & bass tuba, as someone is bound to be
> > offended (well, I refuse to play in a wind band if the conductor calls me
> > a baritone :)
> 
> You're singing with a wind band now?
> 
> > Wagner tubas.... 
> 
> Quite a different instrument to the present day tuba. I've never
> understood why Wagner envisaged that these instruments should be built for
> horn players rather than a heavy brass team, especially since they were
> designed to combine with the wide bodied contrabass in C. I would be
> interested to hear how Wagner's music would adapt to say 2 euphs, 2 Ebs and 1
> BBb in the symphony orchestra. Now I guess I'll get into trouble with the
> S.O. traditionalists.  

Only one snag, in the movments without the tuben Wagner/Bruckner only
wrote for Bass tuba, this would work better on Eb than BBb

Actually, Strauss originally wrote Don Quixote with a single Bb tube in
mind, but changed this to tenor tuba (=euphonium) after hearing how much
better it sounded.

Next point, should this brass band tuba quintet play with any vibrato?

> > let's not get on about french horns again, please.
> 
> Nah, saxhorns (only 8 harmonics) are much better at chromatics.

I was just being disparaging about tuben.  Even french horn players don't
like them (though there's nothing wrong with horn players :)

> Adrian ;-)

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


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