Posted by Art on February 16, 2001 at 16:05:13:
In Reply to: Historical Methods for Tuba posted by Jason Ladd on February 15, 2001 at 17:29:30:
No such thesis should omit the "Fundamental Method for the Tuba and Sousaphone, a graded elementary course" by Howard Hovey, edited by Milton James, published by Universal. It first came out in 1942, and my father used to get little royalty checks from Universal every year. Eventually the checks stopped coming, but it was still being sold a few years ago. If you can't get a copy from Universal I could lend you my copy. My father used it for all of his beginning tuba students for at least 30 years.
There was also a method book by C.L.Barnhouse which I have never seen and which may be out of print. When my father decided to start playing tuba some time around 1925 in Oskaloosa, Iowa, he went to see Mr. Barnhouse, who was his sunday-school teacher. Mr. Barnhouse gave him a tuba method book and autographed it for him. Unfortunately, that copy has been lost.