Re: Re: Re: Re: does marching band messup your sound?


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Posted by Klaus on November 04, 2002 at 19:26:38:

In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: does marching band messup your sound? posted by Rick Denney on November 04, 2002 at 17:54:46:

Of course a discussion on marching versus seated playing could/would/should end up in a discussion of "real" tubas versus sousaphones.

I have been taught enough of the fake science called psychology to know, that visuals inflict on aural impressions and vice versa.

But still the fact is, that the difference between sousas and tubas basically is to be found in the wrapping. There are immense numbers of other quality parameters, but they are the same, no matter whatever wrap a maker might present.

A small bore lightweight 3 valve instrument very likely will be inferior whatever the wrap might be.

A large bore acoustically sound design of medium or heavy weight very likely will provide a good tool for music-making, if there is a reasonable number of valve (please read: no less than 4).

One capacity of this board once outed, that the more desirable orchestral tubas of US origin basically were rewrapped large sousas.

Another capacity of this board at another time outed, that the most popular ever US sousa plays like a tuba (despite its lack of a 4th valve), whereas the Yamanese rehashing, that he was provided with, played like a sousa.

Which more or less explicitly says, that an instrument playing like a sousa is a bad sousa.

Klaus
(who himself never marched anything larger than a bassbone. Highlights being leading a 10.000+ piece strong students' demonstration through Copenhagen during the early spring of 1970, playing an old B&H 8.5" Academy . And winning a band battle over a huge Polish military band, in Poland, in 1993. A more recent, true cutting edge bassbone sound does not come out of anything made east of Cleveland. Of course a literal parable, as my King 7B was not made in Cleveland).


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