FRANKENTUBA: A Home-Brewed Tenor Tuba in High Ab

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Re: FRANKENTUBA in A (or maybe Ab?)

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the elephant wrote:Junked, incomplete horns that contributed to this so far:

Reynolds TB-12 BBb tuba
Mirafone 186 BBb tuba

:cry: . Oh well, their going towards a really cool little tuba
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Re: FRANKENTUBA in A (or maybe Ab?)

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WHOA!
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Re: FRANKENTUBA in A (or maybe Ab?)

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Awesome. I love projects like this. Good luck with this one, sir. :tuba:

I'm considering doing something similar with parts from my GG blat-weasel... some day.
the elephant wrote: However, being in Ab is also pretty good as that places the fingering pattern of the Bydlo solo into that of C minor on a CC tuba. That is not quite as solid, pitch-wise on many tubas as B minor, but I will take it.
How do you reckon?
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Re: FRANKENTUBA in A (or maybe Ab?)

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Why would you want a tenor tuba in A? After al there are some many players out there able to make a Bb euph sound a semitone flat.

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Re: FRANKENTUBA: A Home-Brewed Tenor Tuba in High Ab

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One might guess this one will be a straight shooter.

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Re: FRANKENTUBA: A Home-Brewed Tenor Tuba in High Ab

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Have you tried to put in the valves and play the open bugle of this incarnation?

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