Posted by Rick Denney on December 20, 2002 at 22:21:37:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: tuba keys?? posted by Dan Schultz on December 20, 2002 at 13:14:52:
A tenor tuba is a tenor tuba. It looks like a tuba (four rotary valves, identical except for scale to any rotary tuba), it sounds like a (small) tuba. It's the tuba Pokorny used for the Bydlo on his excerpts CD. It just happens to be pitched like a euphonium (which is also a tenor tuba, but the tenor tuba in question is definitely not a euphonium). So "Bb tuba" doesn't quite cut it for organologists, even we pedantic amateurs. We could call it "tenor tuba" but then someone is bound to be confused by that, too.
Rick "who doubts Dan is as confused as he claims, heh, heh" Denney