I'd say a big patch- maybe to reinforce an area badly damaged by a "young scholar" as @bloke would say.

https://www.baltimorebrasscompany.com/p ... -tuba.aspx

All I know of its history is it once belonged to a Chicagoland band director.

no name on it- maybe the bell was replaced at some point. Wrapped something like an Alex:

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Hindemith Symphony in B-flat.

James Barnes wrote nine symphonies, and I believe that they are all for wind band.


My to-do list just got longer.


On the topic of "serious" works by major composers written originally for band (and not transcribed from orchestra), Suite Francaise by ...

That deMeij symphony is a great piece, and was a lot of fun to play. It's one of two symphonies I know of that the composer scored for concert band- the other being James Barnes' third, which I've also played. Anyone know of any others?


Hindemith Symphony in B-flat.

James Barnes wrote nine ...

That deMeij symphony is a great piece, and was a lot of fun to play. It's one of two symphonies I know of that the composer scored for concert band- the other being James Barnes' third, which I've also played. Anyone know of any others?

humBell wrote: Tue Aug 20, 2024 12:20 pm Bombardon is a seriously under used term these days...

ISTR Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, played the Bombardon.

Well, I bought @MikeS 's small-shank Shallowberger and it fits this little Lehnert Eb nicely- the shank goes into the receiver a bit more than halfway.

And I had to download an Eb fingering chart. Feels like grade school again..............

But it works. Nice job, @bloke .

I'm too ignorant to be able to answer the question about the Lord of the Rings Symphony, but it well could be from that. There's a B flat treble clef part and a C string base octave bass clef tuba part. Of course, I'm reading off the latter.

If it's the last part of this, at 30:05, it is indeed ...

I've got some "Jedi"...blah-blah band (not arrangement, but) original-keys transcription of some movie music (that's probably the note-y-ist piece in the folder...lots of runs of notes with double flags, etc...), along with some other John Williams transcriptions, a set of J.P. Sousa pieces (four ...

Easter service. We played the Gregor "Hosanna Anthem" arranged by Craig Garner, and the Marcello "Psalm 19 (The Heavens Declare the Glory of God)" arranged by Michael Allen. And we used the John Rutter brass/organ arrangement of the Easter Hymn that bloke introduced us to some years ago, which I've ...

Any video?

What a beautiful.............. car, a late 1950s Mercedes. Probably a 300 but I can't be sure. Looks like the poor guy is having trouble shifting gears.

Too bad- I was recently gifted one of those little Eb horns, and it takes a small shank. BBC got it into playing condition, but now I need a proper mouthpiece for it.

You might try one of @bloke 's recently-introduced pieces.

But not as scary as cloning me...............

the elephant wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 9:39 am Euro Shank — Allow me to be the first in line, sir.

I'll join that line.

bloke wrote: Mon Apr 07, 2025 1:50 pm ...not hearing much tuba on those other recordings...

C below the staff with a C tuba...??

more carrying power...??

Play it 5-1-3

Maybe we need to clone you so you can be in all those different places on Easter Sunday?

Maybe some of both- see: Erik Leidzen's transcriptions for the Goldman Band, etc. These transcriptions brought this music to folks who might not have heard it otherwise.

Four weeks to Easter!