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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8kXa_EvcZU&NR=1" target="_blank" target="_blank

Enjoy

This is great! I missed this one before.
Bravo, Alan!

If you haven't gotten his 2nd CD, get it. Amazing playing and it's a bunch of great music, too.

CJH

AL's new CD can be found here:

http://www.baertracksmusic.com/index.ph ... baertracks

not only great playing, but a very cool cover as well!

Interesting to see Mr. Baer using a tuba stand even for a small F

that tuba is by no means a, "small F". It is quite possibly the largest F tuba I have ever played. I can see it working well for a large orchestra like the New York Phil, but in my opinion it sounds and plays too much like a C tuba. When I get an F tuba, I want something that SOUNDS like one too.

Neptune wrote:Interesting to see Mr. Baer using a tuba stand even for a small F

Yes. I did not think that I wanted one of those. When I got my heavier horn, I decided to give one a try and now wouldn't like to go without it. It holds the mouthpiece right where I want it. I don't need to 'fight gravity' to keep the horn where it should be.

Regarding another thread:

Mr. Baer has *no* problems with his low C.

Tubaguyjoe wrote:that tuba is by no means a, "small F". It is quite possibly the largest F tuba I have ever played. I can see it working well for a large orchestra like the New York Phil, but in my opinion it sounds and plays too much like a C tuba. When I get an F tuba, I want something that SOUNDS like one too.

That's probably why they make so many different types and styles. To each their own....

Wade, you put up an interesting post that "got deleted(?)" If you are starting a new thread, I'll be curious...

I tend to agree with you on 98%+ of what you say, but...

To be continued
C

bttmbow wrote:Wade, you put up an interesting post that "got deleted(?)" If you are starting a new thread, I'll be curious...

I tend to agree with you on 98%+ of what you say, but...

To be continued
C

I also was lucky enough to also read that post before it was deleted. I have very much come around to that way of thinking too. My choice of using my Neptune or Melton Eb is largely made on what I perceive as the appropriate tone for the music. Bass tubas and contrabass tubas should have their own distinctive tone. I have never heard a Kodiak live, but it certainly sounds like a bass tuba on that video with Alan Baer behind the mouthpiece.

It is a very big F tuba. Very big.

In his masterclass at ITEC this past summer, Mr. Baer talked a little bit about using stands.
Playing with the tuba on a stand as opposed to resting on legs allows for more resonance due to less dampening on the bottom bow. Also, you can get precise with a stand so that you tuba is placed exactly where you want it each time.

bloke wrote:

Youtube video with Alan Bear on the Kodiak

oops. Thats embarrassing.