Re: Re: CC/G double tuba - possible/desirable?


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Posted by Norm Pearson on August 24, 2001 at 10:08:47:

In Reply to: Re: CC/G double tuba - possible/desirable? posted by Bill on August 24, 2001 at 06:15:40:

Tommy’s tuba is pitched in F/CC cut down from F/BBb but it’s not really a full double tuba. It’s actually a compensating tuba with single rotors and a huge switch valve in the middle of the horn. There is a long 3 port rotor that adds the extra length to the first three valves and a single extra valve for the 4th. It was made in the 1930’s by Lehman, a German company, and was played by John Bambridge (studio musician and former Saint Louis Symphony Tubaist). It’s quite a contraption and you have to look at it a long time to figure out which way the air goes through the horn!
Norm Pearson


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