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A rose by any other name

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Subject: A rose by any other name
From: "Mike Lyons" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2000 22:44:34 -0000
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Judith, might you consider the fact that ranges are relative?

When you speak of a tenor instrument, that doesn't necessarily mean that it
is a tenor instrument relative to the band, (it frequently does, but not
always), but only relative to a particular group of similar instruments.

If you want to draw really fine distinctions between the euph and baritone,
you need to remember that they aren't in the same family group - the euph is
a tenor tuba, the baritone is a saxhorn. Relative to the euph, the baritone
is an alto, if you consider the euph to be tenor. You might stretch a point
and compare them as heldentenor and lyric tenor, or as baritone,(euph) and
tenor,(baritone), but the tone of the euph definitely sets it as a tenor
instrument - it is the cello of the band. The baritone is more like the
viola - though baritone players generally have more life in them then viola
players do, (hi, Sue Sudworth). Can you sing as low as a viola (8ve below
middle c (concert pitch)?

By the way, saxhorns were invented by Sax, the same who invented the
saxophone. Are you going to tell me that a saxophone is a brass instrument?

Was it the thought that you might be related to a cornet that upset you?

Yours,


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