Posted by Chuck(G) on November 07, 2003 at 14:29:25:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Besson Tubas posted by fred young on November 07, 2003 at 13:36:31:
I said:
Except for a few scarce and notable exceptions, Besson tubas come in Eb and BBb only
The CC and F compensating tubas produced by Boosey in the 60's are very rare and scarce indeed. I own a 3-valve compensating CC and there were about as many 4-valve very small compensating F's manufactured at about the same time. My friend, Richard Frazier, used to have the one used by Arnold Jacobs to record the Vaughan Williams, but he later sold it to buy an Alexander F. From what he said about it, its intonation was pretty squirrely. OTOH, the intonation on my CC is quite good.