Blue bells

[ajmtuba]

Really lame question. I can't find my booklet for the Gene Pokorny Tuba Tracks CD. What horn does he use on Blue Bells of Scotland? Just curious.

[Tubaguy56]

I bought mine off of itunes.....I don't get a booklet.....

[The Big Ben]

Here, I'll say it...

That's the great thing about when you buy a CD, you get that neat little booklet. Aren't they cool?

I know you bought and misplaced yours, but this is just for the cynics...

IMHO.... That little booklet ought to be in pdf on the CD...

[NickJones]

Really lame question. I can't find my booklet for the Gene Pokorny Tuba Tracks CD. What horn does he use on Blue Bells of Scotland? Just curious.

I am going to take a stab in the dark here....
maybe a metal one with either valves or rotors , It might be pitched in Bb or C , and is big...
Thank you all , next week the lottery numbers ( but at the end of the day , who cares about the instrument , the outstanding playing on the disk should be the point in question)

Nick " not getting a friday feeling / pedantic" Jones

[eupher61]

I'm 90% sure it's the F.

[james]

well, last time I answered a question about Gene I was mistaken. However, I'm pretty sure he played Blue Bells on his B&S Symphonie F tuba. No clue about mouthpiece. I don't think it would matter what piece he had in there. It would sound great. He did tell me that he did the "whistle sound" in the cadenza on his Schilke Helleburg II. He said he got the right "color" for the whistle on that mouthpiece. Maybe he was highly influenced by all those train whistles he loves and wanted a deeper sound from his "whistle mouthpiece"......LOL! Also, that arrangment is available through Chicken Scratch Press on Brian Fredickson's WindSong Press site. Just make sure to choose the right version (Eb or F).

-james (who's advice would be to take a lesson from Gene, put your horn down and, for a full hour, listen to how a tuba player should approach the instrument, ask him at the end of the lesson on your way out so you don't waste any valuable time or money....oh yeah, and record the lesson)

[Zade]

He plays on an F Tuba- B&S Perantucci Model(number not specified) I just checked the booklet.

[Casey Tucker]

i agree. take a lesson and rush the question as your walking out the door.

personally, i think if you're paying as much as you are through itunes you should get the pamplet in pdf along w/ the provided cover art.

the arrangement is good but why go buy it when you can copy the trombone part and read it down the octave. that's what im doing right now and it's working great on my CC. only thing, at the beginning with the A-G octave line repeat one of the combos so you're not stretching thin to play the pedal A/G. and you can stilll add in the nifty alterations seeing that it is, in the nature of the piece, very liberal with time and dynamics.

-casey
(i'm playing this at the SRCTEC. just my worthless plug )

[james]

The arrangement Gene did (for F tuba) is in the key of Bb. It is not down an octave in F major. (At least this is according to the copy sent to me from Chicken Scratch Press.) The Eb tuba version is in the key of Ab. This was a surprise to me as I learned the original Pryor version on euphonium in middle/high school and the fingerings are NOT the same if played in Bb on an F tuba. This made learning that last variation a real task as my brain has trouble "unlearning" stuff already stored in muscle memory. I put the original Pryor in the key of C and it works a little better for me even if it is a little higher pitched.
-James