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At ca 2:00 min. you'll see the tubist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wuf0WnT5kYM" target="_blank

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It's pretty easy to tell that is an F-Tuba. As for the manufacture, probably "home-cooking" since it is the BPO, and that should mean B&S, at least to me.

Another example of how Die Meistersinger is an F-Tuba piece. The entire prelude at least.

wow...what lousy conducting technique. Bet he didn't have that gig much longer!

eupher61 wrote:wow...what lousy conducting technique. Bet he didn't have that gig much longer!

Hey. Der Führer got him that gig!

eupher61 wrote:wow...what lousy conducting technique. Bet he didn't have that gig much longer!

And that tuba is obviously too small for this piece...



J.c.S. (who thinks its an old Alex)

Matthew Gilchrest wrote:It's pretty easy to tell that is an F-Tuba. As for the manufacture, probably "home-cooking" since it is the BPO, and that should mean B&S, at least to me.

Would not B&S have been in the GDR then? Could be an Alexander?

Nicely present tuba sound, although I am not sure if I take to its tone?

Where did they hide the women in that orchestra?
-Must have been a pretty grim gig.

Art Hovey wrote:Where did they hide the women in that orchestra?
-Must have been a pretty grim gig.

Both the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic have only allowed woman to join in the last few years. Grimethorpe Colliery Band here in the UK I believe is still male only! I also do not understand that attitude

Neptune wrote:Grimethorpe Colliery Band here in the UK I believe is still male only!

There's a famous brass hangout in NYC from back in the day: McSorley's Ale House, founded in 1854. Women weren't allowed in 'til 1970, when the Supreme Court lowered the boom. Their motto was "Good Ale, Raw Onions and No Ladies".

1. Too small for a B&S.

2. West Berlin was an outpost island of West Germany. No West German tuba player of real prominence would have played an East German tuba (as the B&S was). The BPO was in West Berlin. Even though the Berlin Wall hadn't been built yet, there were still four sectors, one of which was the Russian sector, as divided by the WWII victorious powers. In 1961, the Russian occupiers built the Wall to prevent East Berlin (and East Germany) subjects from emigrating to the west, but the boundaries were there before that time.

3. B&S as a state-owned company was formed in the 1960's, after this concert.

4. Probably an Alex.

Rick "who would never play Meistersinger on anything but an F tuba" Denney

Neptune wrote:

Art Hovey wrote:Where did they hide the women in that orchestra?
-Must have been a pretty grim gig.

Both the Berlin Philharmonic and Vienna Philharmonic have only allowed woman to join in the last few years. Grimethorpe Colliery Band here in the UK I believe is still male only! I also do not understand that attitude

Not according to "Brassed Off", it ain't!

'course, with a flugel player who looks like her, I'd make an exception too.

eupher61 wrote:Not according to "Brassed Off", it ain't!

'course, with a flugel player who looks like her, I'd make an exception too.

Alas, not in real life