Clifford Bevan: "The Tuba Family"

[ThomasP]

I believe Clifford Bevan himself just put an advertisement in the new ITEA Journal that talks about issues with people selling the book very overpriced. Piccolo Press is the publisher (correct me if I'm wrong) and the book is available directly from them.

[Chuck(G)]

I agree---it's an amazing book with a lot of neat information--what edition are you talking about being that expensive? It'd better be the first edition!

At that price it should be from the 12th century with woodblock print...

[tubamirum]

Take a look at abebooks.com

[Rick Denney]

I agree---it's an amazing book with a lot of neat information--what edition are you talking about being that expensive? It'd better be the first edition!

I'd be happy to sell my first edition for $1000.

It is better in some ways than the second edition, because the images are printed better. The second edition's images are in some cases traced from photographs in the first edition. This is because the author did not apparently have access to the first edition materials any longer.

The second edition has been significantly updated, and it's currently available directly from the author's publishing house and perhaps a few other places, but not from the big distributors. For anyone interested only in the information it contains, the second edition is more useful.

Rick "who has both" Denney

[BVD Press]

Publisher and book info:

http://piccolopress.info/tuba_family.htm

[brianf]

And I thought someone was gouging selling my book for $75!!

[LoyalTubist]

Yeah, I bought mine in Germany about 25 years ago for DM75. I thought that was high. (75 marks was about $55 US.)

Some of the data in the book was outdated when it came out, but this is usually the case in survey books.

I think it's a great book. But a thousand bucks? I don't think so!

[tubiker]

Try looking on www.amazon.co.uk rather than the USA site - it comes up with a much more sensible price. The best is bet is still probably direct from Cliff at :-

http://www.piccolopress.info/


Clifford Bevan
THE TUBA FAMILY

The second edition of the standard work on the tubas and their predecessors. 640 pages about baritone, euphonium, tubas, sousaphone, helicons, ophicleides, serpents and countless more with 100 illustrations and 100 music examples in 16 chapters. It includes 8 appendices, 23-page bibliography and 33-page index.

‘. . . a veritable wealth of information on the tuba, its variants and its predecessors’. —ITEA Journal. Dr Bevan writes beautifully . . . a must for tuba students everywhere’. — Galpin Society Journal. ‘The book is that rare delight, a scholarly reference work and a good bedside-table read!’—Winds.

ISBN 1 872203 30 2. 640 pages. £35; US $60.00; €50.00.

Hope this helps

Andrew Murray

[Lew]

I checked out this great book from my school library, and would like to purchase a copy. I looked on amazon and a used book was selling for $1072! I seriously hope this is a misprint. Anyone know where I can find this book without having to sell my kidney to get it?

This is clearly high, but it is for the first edition, which is out of print. I have seen copies of this version sell for over $400 on eBay, and it's been a while since any were listed there.

The other advice about where to buy it from the publisher is for the second edition, which is what you probably want anyway if you want it as a reference. I should cost less than $100 including shipping from the UK.

[katfey]

Use the Piccolo Press link that BVD Press posted above.
It will cost $80 (paypal) and your money will go to the UK
but Mr Bevan will ship it to you from here in the US

I got a copy from him that way last fall - and he even signed it!