If you are used to play the Wagnertuba OFTEN, not once a while - but this is quite impossible in orchestras outside Germany, Austria, Scandinavia & GB, as these have THE RING in their repertory - speaking of opera orchestras -, you would know HOW to play the Wagnertuba in tune, using several kind of alternating fingerings, using the ear & the lips to produce correct & fine sounding pitches. That is your problem, not the tuba. Missing experience .......
=========================================================================================================== -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: horn-bounces+hans=pizka...@music.memphis.edu [mailto:horn-bounces+hans=pizka...@music.memphis.edu] Im Auftrag von ardee...@comcast.net Gesendet: Mittwoch, 29. April 2009 21:59 An: The Horn List Betreff: [Hornlist] Wagner Tuba-Unsafe at Any Speed jw...@mvps@org wrote: > I retreated to the relative safety > of one of the Wagner Tuba parts. It was a challenge getting used to > the unfamiliar instrument, but at least the transposition didn't > change as often! >not the case when you play Wagner Tuba in Bruckner's 8th and you have that >very fast page turn, coinciding with a tuba-to-horn swap; and ending with a >horn blast tutti. In my case, I slam down the tuba, grab my horn, and immediately bashed the poor guy next to me right in the horn wrap with the bell of my own horn. Later on (the conductor of that group was not pleased), another conductor who was in the audience came up to me and asked 'if I was learning to play cymbals'. be that as it may, I consider Wagner Tubas (although fun to play if done right) are almost impossible to keep in tune. Granted, I was using borrowed crap instruments, so if anyone else with a good tuba wants to set me straight, I am listening. _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka.de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
