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Hi Everyone,
one of the reasons, after listening some Tuba's recordings, why I've decide to start to play the Tuba is that
actually you can play a Tuba with a Didgeridoo's technique and it can sounds really like a didgeridoo !
I think many of you do know about it !
Talking about a tuba's mouthpiece that can reflect better the wooden sound of the didgeridoo I thought perhaps
a plastic one, actually plastic has sometime similar density as wood, like those Kelly ones should be the most suitable
and the one that get a closer sound to a didgeridoo !?!?
What do you think ?
Any of you have some experience with playing the Tuba as Didgeridoo ?
Cheers

It all has to do with tongue placement.

I've noticed that material has very little to do with it.
The bore profile has more, but the throat of the mouthpiece has the most effect on the actual sound produced.

Removing the main tuning slide helps.

Here's the master, IMHO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_D0vQWdTIc

circusboy wrote:Here's the master, IMHO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_D0vQWdTIc

I'd like to see the sheet music for that.

windshieldbug wrote:It all has to do with tongue placement.

I've noticed that material has very little to do with it.
The bore profile has more, but the throat of the mouthpiece has the most effect on the actual sound produced.

I was in a Tucson record store a while back - they had just recorded and produced a CD for David Hudson (one of the leading didge players in the world.) They had great stories about him poking around the pipe and tube department of the local hardware store, trying out all sorts of plastic and metal pipes of various diameters, lengths, and wall thickness.

He could get good tones out of almost all of them!

circusboy wrote:Here's the master, IMHO:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_D0vQWdTIc

Wow, the master sounds very good on that black tuba !!!

Thank you for the link, I really appreciate it !

David Richoux wrote:

windshieldbug wrote:It all has to do with tongue placement.

I've noticed that material has very little to do with it.
The bore profile has more, but the throat of the mouthpiece has the most effect on the actual sound produced.

I was in a Tucson record store a while back - they had just recorded and produced a CD for David Hudson (one of the leading didge players in the world.) They had great stories about him poking around the pipe and tube department of the local hardware store, trying out all sorts of plastic and metal pipes of various diameters, lengths, and wall thickness.

He could get good tones out of almost all of them!

Yes, Mr. Hudson is indeed one of the leading didgeridoo's world players and one of the most inspiring to me as he always tried to
experimenting new ways to play the didgeridoo !

If I remember correctly it was the first didgeridoo player that made some recording with a PVC slide didgeridoo, the same concept
as the slide trombone !

David Richoux wrote:

windshieldbug wrote:It all has to do with tongue placement.

I've noticed that material has very little to do with it.
The bore profile has more, but the throat of the mouthpiece has the most effect on the actual sound produced.

I was in a Tucson record store a while back - they had just recorded and produced a CD for David Hudson (one of the leading didge players in the world.) They had great stories about him poking around the pipe and tube department of the local hardware store, trying out all sorts of plastic and metal pipes of various diameters, lengths, and wall thickness.

He could get good tones out of almost all of them!

I have that Dave Hudson CD and it is downright fantastic.
MA

I once saw/heard a guy play what sounded to me like a split tone or perhaps a dual tone sort of like playing a Bb and an F at the same time and was able to sustain it into a long tone, he wasn't humming into the horn it was all lip and one of the weirdest things I've ever heard coming out of a brass instrument. Wish I could do it.