Rubberlips wrote:
...Baadsvik looks to be a big man. For us normal or undersized players I would like to add that the levers of the rotary valves can be grouped so that they are closer to one another, nearly like the fingers of the hand, while the buttons of the piston valves have to be farther from each other to accommodate the thickness of the tubing, forcing a normal-size player to splay his fingers....
FWIW he is a fairly average sized guy. When I stood next to him at the USABTEC a couple of years ago he was at least a few inches shorter than me and much thinner. I would guess he's right around 6' tall. His hands didn't look particularly large to me. Of course he can make magic with a tuba, but I think that his comments on how a rotary tuba plays can be attributed to someone of rather average size.
