Them Basses in Hi Def

[Tuba-G Bass]

My section mate and I just performed Them Basses by Getty H. Huffine,

I had a co-worker tape the performance and I have uploaded it to Vimeo
Enjoy/Trash

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hint, click then pause to get it to start downloading, once the grey bar goes all the way across, it will play a lot smoother.
These HD files don't stream very fast.

[imperialbari]

My section mate and I just performed Them Basses by Getty H. Huffine,

I had a co-worker tape the performance and I have uploaded it to Vimeo
Enjoy/Trash

http://www.vimeo.com/1404056" target="_blank" target="_blank" target="_blank

hint, click then pause to get it to start downloading, once the grey bar goes all the way across, it will play a lot smoother.
These HD files don't stream very fast.

Thanks for the better than usual video. Probably taken with a rather stationary camera, so that artistically minded amateur photographers haven't spoiled the concert. I once had the behind-the-neck slides of my bass trombone rammed by a professional camera team on a stage in Poland. While I was playing. I was not amused.

The tuba playing is fine, but I wonder whether the layout of parts wasn't a bit too ethnocentric towards tubism?

Your two tubists played all of the notes, but I heard no trombones or euphs in the upper octave. Of course the tubas are the important factor, but the addition of the more medium sized horns after all add some definition to the bass line.

Klaus

[Tuba-G Bass]

Thanks for the kind words Klaus!
The Trombones and Euphoniums are sitting on opposite sides of our band, and I guess they
were holding back to not show the tubas up!

The cameraman sat in the front row, using a tripod, the junk down in front of the stage is parts
of a portable movie screen, they showed the film "Independence Day" after the concert.

[Tuba-G Bass]

Thanks Wade for the constructive comments!
I actually thought that I didn't move enough, that I was being stiff, since I still had to read the music,
and Andy had it memorized.

I have lived in the Lehigh Valley since 1981, being a transplanted New Englander, [Vermont born],
Bethlehem is a great city and has weathered the closing of Bethlehem Steel pretty well.
They recently filmed scenes for Transformers 2 at the old steel location.

Beside the Bethlehem Municipal Band, I play Contrabass Trombone with
the Bethlehem Moravian Trombone Choir. I actually went to High School in nearby Northampton,
I always wanted to be in the Liberty Grenadier Band, huge group 4 band styled
after the Coldstream Guards,
complete with bagpipers, red tunics and bearskin hats etc.
[Liberty and Freedom are the two high schools in Bethlehem]
But hey, I had fun being a Northampton Konkrete Kid instead!

[imperialbari]

After viewing your profile I am less surprised about the high quality of the video. Each soloist named and all.

The movements of your fellow solist didn't disturb me, and after all he doesn't initiated earthquakes by shifting his weight from one leg to the other.

Which are the tubas you play? Yours is fairly high and slim, which might point towards an older Rudolf Meinl. The S-links also point towards an older instrument which is no bad thing (I have played 3 basses from before 1930 within the last hours, one from 1870). Your mate's might be a Weril or another more recent model.

Klaus

[Tuba-G Bass]

Ah, now we turn to the equipment used!
Mine is a 2004 vintage M&M BBb [made by Songlin in China] w/ miniball valve linkage,
using a Giddings & Webster Bayamo stainless steel mouthpiece,
I would guess the MM is cloned from a Schneider or similar stovepipe east german horn.
.750 bore btw.
Andy is playing his Conn 4 piston BBb 5J. Not sure what mouthpiece he uses.

The rest of my active stable consists of my Conn 24J in satin silver that I leave at the band hall,
My Miraphone BBb Contrabass Trombone, and my Harv Hartman restored FrankenSousa,
Keefer Silver horn with a Reynolds laquer valve cluster.

Other horns owned but not played, a Boosey and Hawkes G Bass Trombone,
Besson Stratford BBb tuba, and a Blessing Marching Baritone.