Posted by Tom Railsback on December 15, 2000 at 21:44:24:
In Reply to: Re: Re: 3-valve Eb/low range/function? posted by ken again k on December 14, 2000 at 23:15:14:
I have done extensive research on post-Civil War army bands in the U.S. They all had only Eb tubas. In my photo collection, there is not one BBb in over 100 military band
photos. Like Steve Bloom said, the American Eb had an entirely different history that
the European horn of the same key.