Now a Schleppy-sized BBBb - Bumblebee video

[Rick F]

Bumblebee video 1.49 - not very loud recording:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8DV3cPhKkU

Here's a better link:
Flight of the Tuba Bee

[imperialbari]

Yes, a much better link!

Still, Schleppy would be much better armed to play that tuba.

[Steve Marcus]

Here's another presentation of Prof. Jörg Wachsmuth playing the Reisentuba, posted on New Year's Day 2013, with TV introduction in German:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... JDUp2PlT2s

I'd still like to hear more of the unique low sounds of the Riesentuba.

[bort]

I don't speak German very well, but did I hear them say that it costs 130,000 Euro?

If so, that's a LOT of money. Now, I'm sure that it's an expensive tuba to make. But more than anything, it sounds like the manufacturer saying "we don't want to make another one!"

[imperialbari]

Here's another presentation of Prof. Jörg Wachsmuth playing the Reisentuba, posted on New Year's Day 2013, with TV introduction in German:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... JDUp2PlT2s

I'd still like to hear more of the unique low sounds of the Riesentuba.

Americans not knowing German: Please always spell the German ei and ie constellations counterintuitively, as that is your only way of getting the right spelling. I went to the link and looked in vain for a Reisentuba, which means a travel tuba. Assumedly a miniaturized instrument in the sense of the Martin Backpacker plucked strings. What I saw was the Riesentuba.

Klaus

[Jess Haney]

I wonder how many farts per minute i.e wavelengths, that 4th valve cranks out.

[imperialbari]

The videos so far only have presented the BBBb playing in th BBb range.

Klaus