Posted by Bill on May 11, 2001 at 07:22:55:
In Reply to: Encounters II on F tuba posted by Yutaka Kono on May 10, 2001 at 10:17:48:
My son played this on an F tuba, a PIPER (stencilled Cerveny sold by Pacific Music, in Vancouver , BC). It was a 4 valve horn and had a fine lower register. I never thought much about how he accomplished the piece and overcame the various intonation problems but he did. I heard him play this on his Senior recital at East Tennessee State. He was the finest young tuba player I have ever heard until he encountered Sumner Ericksen at the ITEC in Texas when Sumner won the HS Tuba prize.
This 4 valve Cerveny was a remarkable horn; I also used it for some work in the 70's and 80's before I switched back to EEb. The receiver was a small European one and I used a Holton Revelation #47 mouthpiece on it. It was stolen in 1985, or so, from his car at Georgia State University, in Atlanta.