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Posted by C(G) on January 28, 2004 at 13:55:06:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Anyone knows this tuba? posted by Rick Denney on January 28, 2004 at 13:17:57:

I think it depends on the application, Rick. There are a lot of instances where the siutation calls for a specific instrument.

In our brass band, initially a couple of players showed up with what they understood to be "baritones"--the bell-front American bariphonium. The sound from the mid-low section changed dramatically when they got the real thing.

Similarly, someone sitting in with the Eb basses with a 6/4 contrabass is going to sound out of place where the lighter, more delicate sound is called for.

A cornet looks a lot like a trumpet in the light of comparing an oval tenorhorn to an upright bell euphonium. Yet the sound difference is unmistakable.

Your experiment in the tuba-euph quartet most likely shows that human low-frequency directional discrimination is pretty poor. Heck, in tuba ensemble, I can't figure out where the sound's coming from most of the time.

Chuck "not disagreeing with you, just adding more opinion" (G)



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