Six valves on a tuba? Piece of cake. Check out this trumpet with lots of keys, a keyed bugle in effect. Haydn's trumpet player reportedly used a keyed bugle in the first performance of the new Concerto in Eb. The instrument depicted must have been a nightmare to produce.
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Lots of Keys
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bort
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Re: Lots of Keys
And a nightmare to play.
And listen to.
And...
And listen to.
And...
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IsaacTuba
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Re: Lots of Keys
Just wait until the serpent makes a comeback...
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LibraryMark
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Re: Lots of Keys
Pretty amazing sound for a horn with holes in it.
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WC8KCY
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Re: Lots of Keys
...like the ophicleide?IsaacTuba wrote:Just wait until the serpent makes a comeback...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG5pbPcXnC0
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iattp
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Re: Lots of Keys
The ophicleide is making one!!! It's slow, but now more of us are learning it
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Ann Reid
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Re: Lots of Keys
Sounds fine to me, but I’m guessing that the tempo may be faster than it was originally played.
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LibraryMark
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Re: Lots of Keys
Just a funny-shaped saxophone with a cornet mouthpiece.
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windshieldbug
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Re: Lots of Keys
I've played ophicleide in symphonic settings.
They actually make things easier to play, not harder.
Trust me: if a sax player can handle more keys, you can handle a few!
They actually make things easier to play, not harder.
Trust me: if a sax player can handle more keys, you can handle a few!
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
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Donn
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Re: Lots of Keys
Though part of the saxophone's facility with keys comes from its ability to produce an effective tone corresponding to the 1st partial, and the easy key stuff is in the two octaves corresponding to 1st and 2nd partials. Which I guess would be be a valve nightmare. My very casual impression is that this trumpet thing is running more in the typical brass range in that respect, as by most accounts the ophicleide does as well. Which is not to say keys are not a valid way to design such an instrument, but not exactly analogous to the woodwinds (and I wonder if that could be done, i.e. keyed brass with a larger bore that can function effectively in its pedal range.)