Posted by Bill on December 16, 2000 at 10:26:03:
In Reply to: Euphonium music posted by Pat on December 15, 2000 at 15:23:48:
First, everything I have read seems to be mostly correct but, when you are playing string bass parts on a tuba, to achieve the same pitch, you must play them down an octave. String bass parts are written one octave higher than they sound. But they are in concert pitch.
Second, Tuba Christmas books are published in bass clef and treble cleff for all instruments, tubas euphoniums, whatever. If you wanted to do it, you could play the carols with a brass band (but the alto horns would be playing Eb tuba parts). Eb tubas play the same fingerings for the notes regardless of cleff but the sharp-flat paradigm shifts between cleffs. An Eb player would have no trouble reading any Bb part on a BBb tuba or/and C part on a CC tuba. The weird thing to me, in doing this, is the pitches change for the different note "pictures" and that creates initial uncertainty.