Posted by Christian Klein on September 26, 2002 at 21:50:09:
In Reply to: Quint Valve posted by Doug on September 26, 2002 at 21:42:39:
The easiset way to think of it (for me) is if your fifth valve tubing was as long as your fourth valve plus a flat whole step fifth valve. On a F tuba, you could play the b flat below the staff with the fifth valve by itself.
Christian Klein