Re: "cimbasso"/"Verdi hated the tuba"/etc.
Posted: Tue May 15, 2018 2:42 pm
Maybe Verdi kept them so busy, that the instruments were all used to death and none survived to be collectors' items.bloke wrote:...to date, no one has shown me a photograph of one (much less "some") that were made during-or-before the time period that those pieces of music were written that requested a "cimbasso".
Check for something like "Non preoccuparti troppo se non esattamente en accordo, il resto della sezione sono stesso tromboni a valvole."OK...so not "cimbasso", and it isn't immediately apparent (at least, not to me) why valves would be "implied", but (again) not cimbasso-related, but tangential.I took a look at the scores of Verdi’s 2 last operas, Otello and Falstaff. Both scores specify Trombone Basso as their bottom instrument of the brass section. The Otello opening implies valve trombones being meant.