Re: bass guitar or 6/4 BBb
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 9:31 pm
Both- put an amp on the 6/4 BBb to compete.
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Re: bass guitar or 6/4 BBb
Posted: Sun Jun 14, 2015 10:57 pm
Which one gets the most gigs?
Re: bass guitar or 6/4 BBb
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:21 am
bloke wrote:pro'lly a small one - so-as to avoid risking denting the bell..(??)southtubist wrote:Both- put an amp on the 6/4 BBb to compete.
Re: bass guitar or 6/4 BBb
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 1:30 pm
Bagpipes....
Re: bass guitar or 6/4 BBb
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:02 pm
Hijack (sorry):
Our local community band does a concert called "Across The Big Pond" every spring, and we always have a bagpipe band or two as a supplemental group. One year we had five or six pipe bands, and we had 50+ pipers and drummers in an arc around the back of the band for the finale. Also, it was indoors in a small arena.
It wasn't the loudest sound I've ever heard, but it was the most piercing. Needless to say, we've never had that many bagpipes again. The most surprising thing was that they were fairly well in tune with each other and with the band.
Original topic:
It all depends on the amplification. Take a bass guitar without an amp vs and unamplified 6/4 BBb tuba, and there's no contest.
Our local community band does a concert called "Across The Big Pond" every spring, and we always have a bagpipe band or two as a supplemental group. One year we had five or six pipe bands, and we had 50+ pipers and drummers in an arc around the back of the band for the finale. Also, it was indoors in a small arena.
It wasn't the loudest sound I've ever heard, but it was the most piercing. Needless to say, we've never had that many bagpipes again. The most surprising thing was that they were fairly well in tune with each other and with the band.
Original topic:
It all depends on the amplification. Take a bass guitar without an amp vs and unamplified 6/4 BBb tuba, and there's no contest.
Re: bass guitar or 6/4 BBb
Posted: Mon Jun 15, 2015 3:12 pm
We played at the local highland games a couple years, and on one occasion did a combined number with the very fine Simon Fraser pipe band from BC. We set our chairs in columns some distance apart, and during the tune they marched through the band. That was memorable. Felt completely drowned out.