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In less than two weeks, there's an brass choir concert - under the auspices of an orchestra, of which the players are members.

The encore (not listed on the program) is Star & Stripes, Forever.

This arrangement features the tuba (covering the piccolo solo/soli in the trio)...ha-ha-ha...

I was thinking of using my Besson E-flat recording bass on that number (as a hoot) and then (duh!) began to realize how incredibly EASY that little solo is on E-flat tuba (vs. F - which I've used in the distant past (when I've played that same passage - as an F tuba offers good trills with alternate fingerings involving the 5th and 6th valves)...

...but I'm not that great of an E-flat reader (OK...I know how it goes - and can nearly fake the whole thing...but I'd RATHER read it...
Then (I'm so dang dumb) I suddenly remembered that I can play it as if "in C", reading "trumpet treble clef" (which I can read VERY well)...

...so I read though this, and (its a cinch) that's exactly what I'm going to do.

The only very minor trip-ups (reading thing it the first time) were when I needed to use the (left-hand) 4th valve for some of the trills (as trumpets usually don't have a 4th valves)...but two or three more times though it (perhaps a pencil-mark or two...??) and it's ready-and-done.

Again...WHY PRACTICE when there's an EASIER TUBA...??

bloke "...and now I PARTICULARLY understand the value - in the heyday of wind bands - of the D-flat piccolos ! "

with apologies for the phone-pic, instead of an honest-to-goodness scan...

Hope it's streamed/recorded again!

Written C (treble clef) is Eb. Like reading an Eb part in British brass band, yes?

Doc wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:42 am Written C (treble clef) is Eb. Like reading an Eb part in British brass band, yes?

yup.

A bari-sax part would be handy, but (LOL) there's no piccolo solo written into the bari-sax part on this march.

bloke wrote: ↑Mon Oct 05, 2020 11:25 am there's no piccolo solo written into the bari-sax part on this march.

^^^ Further evidence that God loves us and wants us to be happy.^^^

That's just how I felt when I realized I could play French horn duets on C tuba by reading them as bass clef with Bb fingerings. If I had an F tuba, I'd read them as treble clef with C fingerings, but I don't.

I've played that solo on a C tuba. It's much more suited for Eb

The Indy Brass Choir has played that arrangement several times with yours truly playing it on euph. I'll see if I can find a recording.
That arrangement is "interesting," as are several others by the same person.