Posted by Rick Denney on May 11, 2001 at 13:47:04:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Anon posted by Chuck on May 11, 2001 at 11:40:32:
Can you obtain pictures? Maybe side-by-side with a euphonium? I've never seen an instrument pitched in Bb that was bigger in the ways you describe to a modern euphonium, but I have seen instruments pitched in F that were so much smaller than modern F tubas that it may have appeared that it was a tenor tuba. Were the horns you mention really pitched in Bb?
Even so, I would still recommend that we use the term "tenor tuba" to describe the class, rather than these rare outliers. Certainly this was not the instrument that, say, Holst had in mind when he marked his part "tenor tuba." After all, the part he provided was, as I understand it, written in brass-band treble clef, putting it squarely in the euphonium domain.
Rick "curious" Denney