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I am told that the Royal Welsh Fusiliers March, by Sousa, has three distictly separate tuba parts!

Can anyone verify/deny this claim? If it is indeed true, does anyone have suggestions for a source, from which to borrow a copy of the first tuba part?

I'm looking at the parts right now from our community band library. There are indeed three tuba parts but they appear to be the same except for some octave splits. The II and III parts go down to the F an octave below the staff. It does not appear to be a particularly difficult piece for the tubas.

I have extra parts I could send or I guess I could scan the Tuba I part and email it if you don't tell the copyright police. The arrangement I have is published by Theodore Presser and is in Bb/Eb at the trio. PM me of you want the part.

Band librarian (and tuba player) for the Santa Clarita Valley Concert Band

van wrote:I'm looking at the parts right now from our community band library. There are indeed three tuba parts but they appear to be the same except for some octave splits. The II and III parts go down to the F an octave below the staff. It does not appear to be a particularly difficult piece for the tubas.

Isn't III more or less I & II combined?

Isn't III more or less I & II combined?

Mostly true. For a couple of measures III is down an octave from both I and II. Nevertheless, the only differences in the three parts are octave splits.

FWIW, we've never been able to figure it out, either. It's like the editor was getting paid by the part. In our march books, I believe we have the I and II parts pasted together back-to-back.