Actually, I think I just found it here.

It's the version from Theodore Moses Tobani for Military Band.

Since the opera itself dates before the invention of the instrument, I doubt it.
Maybe it's a bar counting test

Joke aside, it might be a wind band arrangement, because it's an audition for a wind band.

Not sure any of you would/could candidate, but I think you might find 4 things interesting:
- Position for contrabass tuba, doubling on bass tuba
- Position title is for "contrabass saxhorn", but the required instrument is actually "contrabass tuba" (historic legacy)
- Contrabass tuba can be Bb or C ...

That tuba is so beautiful and sounds so good...
I listen to it every day

Where is Charlie Vernon's one-page treatise, when we really need it?

:laugh:


I'm missing the reference there, can you elaborate?


juvenile coarse humor, which is way more true than funny - describing some symphonic low brass players attitudes

It's 100% true then, but don't blame them ...

bloke wrote: Sun Mar 29, 2026 1:04 pm Where is Charlie Vernon's one-page treatise, when we really need it?

I'm missing the reference there, can you elaborate?

@the elephant check your MP.

@russiantuba not until the end, but for a few measures, yes.

@Schlitzz the conductor did not notice when I used my bass trombone on one tune at last rehearsal, not sure he will notice a high tuba note

Depends, maybe it's an arrangement error.

bloke there is no tuba in the original, the orchestration was the following:
- 2 flutes
- 1 oboe
- 2 clarinets
- 1 bassoon
- 2 horns
- 2 cornets
- 1 trombone
- percussions
- chords

I will see at next rehearsal where it fits in the orchestration, but from all the versions I can hear online, it is ...

Hello friends,

Just got a new part to play in the wind band and ... I'm troubled.

For the context, it's a wind band arrangement of "Galop Infernal" from Offenbach's "Orphée aux enfers".

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I can play the notes (low Bb to high Eb) because I'm playing an Eb ...

Is tuba a double for a trumpet player ?
Mostly same fingerings, same instrument family (brass), and you can even have them in the same key (some octaves apart).

Edit: no offense meant and no offense taken, I just like debating

4-5. My F tuba has six valves with two on the left. Not only are the fingerings all different than, say, Bb, but the fingering patterns are also different in many spots. Is that any easier than the different positions between a symphonic tenor with one trigger versus a bass with two triggers ...

I think that playing "at the highest level", tenor trombone and bass trombone are definitely different instruments and worth the doubler "title" if you play them both proficiently.
However, I do agree with you that we could (and maybe should )certainly say the same for a tubist playing both bass and ...

I have to play Scheherazade quickly then

I wonder if the reason is just that trombone players better negociated the terms with the union than the tuba players

Yes, but I found the difference between a DW 3L huge compared to the PT.
My tuba was very hard to play with the DW: unfocused and sucking a lot of air. When I tried the PT it was instant win, and it never faded.

I hop to try some Wessex tubas at some point (Mahler, Anton, Wyvern, Elgar, Gnagey & Tubby).
I was wondering about their shank size.
Is it the same for all their models ? What size is it ?
My current mouthpiece is a Perantucci PT-84 (large euro shank) and I would prefer to try other tubas with the ...

No problem, you are probably true most of the time in here

I would love an Eb sousaphone, but it's rarer than hens' teeth in Europe...