Can a BB-Flat Tuba Used For A Music Education Major?

tubaribonephone · Post by **tubaribonephone** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 11:52 am

I'm a music ed. major and I'm on a BBb. And about being a performance major, I've always been told that if you sound good, it doesn't matter. You can get any gig, any orchestral job as long as you sound good.

tubathig · Post by **tubathig** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 4:31 pm

If you are going to be a band director a BBb will do just fine. Personally I play CC, and I am a band director now, but it is a sound preference issue with me. If you are pleased with your sound on BBb, don't waste your time switching, However if you have any aspirations of grad school at any time you should strongly consider learning CC if your teacher feels it nescessary, if not don't worry with it - my $0.02

Leland · Post by **Leland** » Mon Mar 28, 2005 5:57 pm

UF_pedal_tones wrote:Now before you blow a gasket, let me tell you that the reason he told me to switch is because my school's CC tubas are MUCH higher quality and it dramatically improved my sound. (Not saying that because it was a CC it improved my sound)

To be fair --

Hypothetically, if your school had some high-quality BBb tubas, would he have asked you to start learning CC?

elimia · Post by **elimia** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 8:03 pm

As long as you are comfortable with the 4th value and the occasional uncomfortable 2+4 to 3 to 2+3 combination, you're cool! There are some great deals on BBb tubas out there.

Just asking because I don't know - does anyone make stock CC euphoniums?

Rick Denney · Post by **Rick Denney** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:19 pm

elimia wrote:Just asking because I don't know - does anyone make stock CC euphoniums?

Amati makes one or did until recently, and it was actually not that bad. It was in the rotary style, though.

Purveyors of the BBb=suitable only for band myth will tell you that the only reason euphoniums are still in Bb is because they are only played in bands. But I think it's because no famous player really made a C euphonium famous by his choice of it.

Rick "who has nothing against C tubas, but who didn't mind getting a first-class grand orchestral tuba in playable (though not beautiful) condition for well under $5000" Denney

Tubaryan12 · Post by **Tubaryan12** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:28 pm

UF_pedal_tones said:

P.S. - if anyone's interested....his little horn is a Marzan 4/4

I was wondering if he still played the horn...it's makes me smile to see he does