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Never had to read tenor clef, but I guess now I can.
Chalk it up to my ignorance about so VERY many things, but - actually - I sort of assumed it always is.Not all music arranged for brass band is in treble clef.
What?!? Brass Band music should only have ONE Bass Clef part, and that's the Bass Trombone. To be pushed out of a traditional British Brass band because someone doesn't read bass clef is a shame. 2nd Baritones of the world unite!! (We have lots of time because we have all the rests).Mary Ann wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:45 am The brass band that I'm in just sort of eased out a newish baritone player because he could not read bass clef -- and wasnt't interested in learning. He would just sit there if his music was in bass clef. If he had bothered to try to learn it, it would have been different. People are strange. Not all music arranged for brass band is in treble clef.
If you're the "Uber-traditionalist" I will have add a few Ubers to the front of yours. I am proud to call myself a British Brass Band snob. (Still refuse to consider French Horns as real brass instruments, trumpets are stupid, and Eb alto horns are creepy but still better than a French Horn any day of the week). My daughter is starting to play baritone/euphonium and I am making the school teach her Treble Clef. There will be more opportunities for her reading Treble Clef as a euphonium player as compared to Bass Clef. She's a cello player. She can read bass clef there. She's a piano player. She can read both clefs. For wind related instruments she can read Treble. There is a reason why the euph part for concert band comes in both clefs. That's because of the British history behind the instrument and composers like Leidzen and others in the early 1900s who were staring to be huge in teh American band scene. Being a bass clef only euphonium player is a dead end.bloke wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:55 am ...but I'm the "uber-traditionalist" (and tends to assume too much) guy who - were I invited to participate in one - would only consider bringing a full-size English-made B-flat or E-flat top-action tuba (preferably: 4-valve compensating). ...but yes, I could read either clef and play either of those instruments (or - though I only seem to have fairly good luck with REALLY NICE English-style baritones, because the cheapies are so challenging tuning-wise,the euphonium or the baritone...or THIRD cornet...maybe).
Like people who show up to brass band rehearsal with C or F or Tubas(won't even call them Basses) in the key of something other than what should be played in a Brass Band.
Well at least Eb's of certain sizes sound are tuba-"lite" in sound. I was going to write something longer but eh. At least most (I wonder if anyone still makes new GG thingamajigies) tubas are in flat keys 
's and tuning to 440-443 Hertz (who does that?). Small tuba shank, or even smaller (
) is the truest way. Yup, 
at my own humor, that doesn't mean everyone else will.
Well if you happen to be coming to NERTEC (super close to me)
