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What's the extra tubing for?

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:37 am
by Tubaryan12

Re: What's the extra tubing for?

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:55 am
by Donn
Beats me, but it isn't for that horn.

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 3:18 am
by quinterbourne
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Yeah, french horns have things like this. Usually they are used to bring an F horn down to Eb. A lot of brass band music is written for Eb horn, so the F horn player just jams that extra tubing in there and reads the Eb music as if it were for F horn. It is, essentially, a leadpipe extension.

Also, historic brass instruments (such as natural horn or natural trumpet) use different "crooks" to put the instrument into a different key (the instrument doesn't have valves).

I've never seen such for euphonium/baritone/tuba. It doubt it is as effective as the higher pitched trumpets and french horns. Correct me if I am wrong, but an extension in the leadpipe to lower the pitch of the euph/bari/tuba would need to be combined with an extension of all the valve slides. I believe using the extra tubing on this particular instrument would make it an intonation nightmare (if it isn't one already).

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 2:47 pm
by Tubaryan12
Thanks. :D

Posted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:41 pm
by Kevin Hendrick
Tempting to get it just for the "hard case mouth piece tuner" -- I have a couple of hard case mouth pieces that are badly out of tune ... :P

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 6:17 am
by LoyalTubist
Q: Does the horn play? It appears to have all connections with the exception of a valve button. ???
A: Hi, sorry, I really don't know how it play or if it play. Thanks.
:roll:

Posted: Tue Apr 18, 2006 12:00 pm
by windshieldbug
Its like the old fight/hockey game joke;

What if you were watching someone play a baritone and a mellophone part broke out? :shock: