Re: Re: Best Professional BBb Tuba


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Posted by Greg Crider on August 09, 2001 at 00:23:34:

In Reply to: Re: Best Professional BBb Tuba posted by anon on August 08, 2001 at 22:20:59:

CC chauvinism gets very, very tiresome. In much of the world, professional players use BBb horns just fine. If you're talking consistency of intonation, etc., why does it make more sense to have a CC horn when the trombone sections you play with use Bb horns instead of C? I agree that the fingerings of a CC horn make sharp-key music easier to finger, and that shorter tubing makes for quicker response on many (but not all) instruments, but many, many people are happy playing BBb horns professionally and see no need to go CC. This is a debate that's been going on before I began playing in the '60's, and it's not going to go away, and is not going to be settled any time soon.


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