RE: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-11 Thread Steve Freides
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[Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-11 Thread Brass Arts Unlimited
Steve, Look for a 3/4 sized tuba for your son. There are even some models out there with 4 valves, like the Meinl Weston model 11, which is even convertible to a marching bass. Yamaha makes the YBB 103 and 105, but they only have 3 valves (at least I think those are the model numbers.) The Mein

RE: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-10 Thread Richard
Steve Freides wrote: Size is something of an issue in that he's 5 feet tall now (that's about a 1.53 meters) and just 12 years old. --- In our orchestra we had a tubist for a couple of concerts who was a petite young woman barely 5' 2" tall and of slender build. She played a very large i

Re: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-09 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Jerry Houston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C > To: "The Horn List" > Date: Sunday, November 9, 2008, 11:10 PM > On Sunday 09 November 2008 13:24:15 Steve Freides wrote: > > &

Re: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-09 Thread Jerry Houston
On Sunday 09 November 2008 13:24:15 Steve Freides wrote: > > Is there any reason not to start on a CC tuba instead of a BBb? Makes perfect sense to me. When I played Sousaphone for one "marching season" in high school, bass clef was easy enough for me to read, due to 3+ years of piano lessons

Re: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-09 Thread Debbie Schmidt
2008 2:42 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C Of course, Klaus is right about the tuba usage in most respects. In the US, almost all elementary and secondary playing is done on the BBb contrabass tuba. Serious students acquire a CC contrabass either in high school (

RE: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-09 Thread Steve Freides
> -Original Message- > From: Brass Arts Unlimited [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 09, 2008 2:42 PM > To: horn@music.memphis.edu > Subject: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C > > Of course, Klaus is right about the tuba usage in most > respects

[Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-09 Thread Brass Arts Unlimited
Of course, Klaus is right about the tuba usage in most respects. In the US, almost all elementary and secondary playing is done on the BBb contrabass tuba. Serious students acquire a CC contrabass either in high school (almost exclusive if one has a private teacher preparing one for college audit

Re: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-09 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Steve Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C > To: "'The Horn List'" > Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 11:40 PM > Apologies for a brass- but not horn-related query. > >

Re: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-08 Thread Ben Reidhead
]> > Subject: [Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C > To: "'The Horn List'" > Date: Saturday, November 8, 2008, 3:40 PM > Apologies for a brass- but not horn-related query. > > I know trumpet players start with a Bb instrument and often > continue with a &g

[Hornlist] OT: Tuba in Bb or C

2008-11-08 Thread Steve Freides
Apologies for a brass- but not horn-related query. I know trumpet players start with a Bb instrument and often continue with a Bb instrument for band work but a C instrument for a lot (most?) orchestral work. My son is a high-school trumpeter and, for now, his teacher prefers he practice transpos