What's the lowest thing you've ever played on tuba (euph..)?

Quicksilvertuba · Post by **Quicksilvertuba** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:40 pm

I'm trying to remember something in H.S. physics about how a black hole has such a low frequency that it sounds 32 octaves below middle c.

... Might be wrong though.

Quicksilvertuba · Post by **Quicksilvertuba** » Tue May 15, 2007 10:48 pm

found it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3096776.stm

Though I was wrong about how many octaves it was

...never would have guessed b flat

Steve Marcus · Post by **Steve Marcus** » Wed May 16, 2007 7:06 am

In his BP CSO Radio interview on NPR, Gene Pokorny demonstrates how low the tuba can go. After heading down from the GGG in the "misprinted edition" of Edgard Varese's Arcana, the interviewer asks Gene,

"What note was that?"

"Well, I don't know. It was kinda nasty. You can call it anything you want."

One of the lowest notes in a melody is FFF in Beth Lodal's arrangement of Prokofiev's Vision Fugitives as recorded by her husband, Mr. Pokorny.

That same FFF is in the tuba solo in the "Hoch" movement of Goff Richard's Homage to the Noble Grape. When I played that note in a Chicago Brass Band performance of that piece, our conductor made a motion to the audience as if he were...ummm...having "gastric distress."

Dean E · Post by **Dean E** » Wed May 16, 2007 9:50 pm

Steve Marcus wrote: . . . . When I played that note in a Chicago Brass Band performance of that piece, our conductor made a motion to the audience as if he were...ummm...having "gastric distress."

Yeah, I know the sign from a rehearsal where I nearly got mooned from the podium.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Thu May 17, 2007 5:35 pm

tubashaman wrote:check this out, this is for a HS band camp over at TCU, check out the low B natural......this is definitley a poor arrangement (taken an octave below the bass trombone part)...there are going to be alot of HS kids struggling

[url]http://www.band.tcu.edu/band%20cam ... mpTuba.pdf

That should make it possible to separate the men from the boys(or women from the girls). The low register stuff should be pretty challenging to all.

Todd S. Malicoate · Post by **Todd S. Malicoate** » Thu May 17, 2007 6:45 pm

tubashaman wrote:check this out, this is for a HS band camp over at TCU, check out the low B natural......this is definitley a poor arrangement (taken an octave below the bass trombone part)...there are going to be alot of HS kids struggling

Agreed...ridiculous excerpt for a high school audition.

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What's the lowest thing you've ever played on tuba (euph..)?

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