Vienese tuba


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Posted by Oshima on November 04, 2000 at 00:53:10:

I have seen correspondences on Mr Jacobs OTHER tuba (during March 2000) on DEIML, DHAMELS tuba, which was brought to CSO by F Reiner. Mr Jacobs and Richard found interesting tone possiblility and marverous sound quality. Looks Mr Jacobs had a probelm in finguring and intonation. In other note, Tony Clemens added fingering.

In Austira, the same system (Vienese system) instrument is used in several orchestra. It was used till 1995 in Vienna Philharmonic by Mr Hunmel. This tuba is best in intonation, as revealed by scientific measurement. Maybe, right fingering was not known by Mr Jacobs. Left whole/half/short half / Right 1.33/0.66/perfect 4th. The detail is in Mr Zechmeister text published in 1998 from Doblinger. The tonal quality is best in tuba instrument. Current tuba (in C etc.) is based on military system and of difficulty in tone quality for symphonic performances. Musika (UMI, Austria), Alexander, Hursburner etc. produce Vienese systems. The Vienese tuba can cover both F-tuba and contrabass tuba region, if well trained. Worth to try !! Different world will come.


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