Posted by js on June 11, 2003 at 23:58:04:
Can anyone site uses of the terms "6/4" or "grand orchestral" prior to the blurb found in the original (and current as well) Hirsbrunner model 510 ads run by their American importer?
Joe "who thinks it's sorta funny that (1) various so-called "5/4" tubas are larger in several different ways than some "6/4" tubas, and that (2) some folks seem to believe that "Grand Orchestral" is a very specific descriptive term - yet they don't notice that some "Grand Orchestral"-ish tubas are *three-loop tubas while others are **four-loop tubas" S.
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*bell + 5 bows/branches...then tuning slide/valve section/mouthpipe
**bell + 7 bows/branches...then tuning slide/valve section/mouthpipe