Switching from euphonium to tuba

van · Post by **van** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 2:14 am

I did the same thing about 5 years ago after playing euph since high school. I was in my early 60's when I made the switch. It was a similar situation - we had no tubas in our community band but we had two euph players, the other one a very good player. I bought a used tuba on ebay for under $2000 and started playing at home. After a few weeks practice I brought it to band and have hardly picked up the euph since. I was fortunate that I played bass clef euph so it was just a matter of getting used to reading the lower octave and becoming comfortable with the larger mouthpiece. Our band has since had other tuba players come and go but I've stayed with it and don't want to switch back.

hurricane_harry · Post by **hurricane_harry** » Sun Nov 21, 2004 9:21 am

i made the same switch on my freshman year of high school. the low notes came as a problem to me when i first started. just play a whole bunch of pedal notes

daktx2 · Post by **daktx2** » Mon Nov 22, 2004 12:14 am

make sure to take lessons on the instrument that you are switching to. after making the switch from baritone to tuba i had some bad embouchure problems for several until my teacher straightened me out.