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One of the other tuba players at my school (Lee University) is performing the Waltz for Mippy III by Lennie Bernstein. He is playing it out of the Herbert Wekselblatt "Solos for the Tuba Player" book, and wants to know if that is the original edition or if it is edited. In the book the piece only goes up to the top of the staff, but he says he heard a recording (Warren Deck, maybe?) that goes considerably higher in some spots. I told him I would try to find out as much as I could about it.

Thanks,
Marty Neilan

The Wekselblatt book is an edited edition. The original version, the one Deck recorded, is in fact mostly up one octave. I have worked with many mnay students on the version from the solos book, although I play the original when I play it in recital.

It is a very nice tune.

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MartyNeilan wrote:One of the other tuba players at my school (Lee University) is performing the Waltz for Mippy III by Lennie Bernstein. He is playing it out of the Herbert Wekselblatt "Solos for the Tuba Player" book, and wants to know if that is the original edition or if it is edited. In the book the piece only goes up to the top of the staff, but he says he heard a recording (Warren Deck, maybe?) that goes considerably higher in some spots. I told him I would try to find out as much as I could about it.

The Wekselblatt is edited. I have that book and it still has the markings Richard Frazier put in it 30 years ago to correct the editing. One of the other posters is correct, Wekselblatt dropped a lot of it down an octave.

I played it a little while ago and I can tell you that it goes up to a high Eb above the staff if that helps.

Sou

I played it a little while ago and I can tell you that it goes up to a high Eb above the staff if that helps.

Wierd! I've got the Boosey & Hawkes edition & that goes up to E natural.

Eb/E natural, what's the difference? Everybody knows that tuba players don't look at key sigs anyway.

By the way, it is an E natural, I looked it up and I was wrong. I'm glad that I'm not playing that one anymore.

Sousie