Why are tubas large?

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:40 pm

Because they are not small.

That is all.

Ken Crawford · Post by **Ken Crawford** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 10:46 pm

More core.

bort · Post by **bort** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:06 pm

"Big boned"?

PMeuph · Post by **PMeuph** » Sat Dec 16, 2017 11:31 pm

High-fructose corn syrup?

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 12:27 am

They haven’t smoked enough to get small...

humBell · Post by **humBell** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 9:25 am

Because their size is proportional to the wavelength of the sound they are designed to produce?

(Consults periodic table.) Now if my tuba were filled with Argon or Xenon...

bort · Post by **bort** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 10:18 am

Xenon... The proverbial lead balloon.

humBell · Post by **humBell** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:25 am

bort wrote:Xenon... The proverbial lead balloon.

Obviously i have not read enough proverbs.

Must remedy this.

humBell · Post by **humBell** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:24 pm

Aye.

The Proverbs of Xenon, right after the Psalms of Heracles on your local tv.

Another thing i am not up on is pop cultures...

And between them, i may yet figure out what makes a tuba large...

Donn · Post by **Donn** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 2:58 pm

bloke wrote: yeah... The one to which he refers is about a somewhat mannish-yet-sexy mythical woman who played an overpriced Yamaha replica of an ancient instrument...

...or something like that...(??)

Not sure what she's doing with it, there. "Don't put that in your mouth - you don't know where it's been!"

Heavy_Metal · Post by **Heavy_Metal** » Sun Dec 17, 2017 11:30 pm

Because size matters.

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 12:12 pm

Because.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeH-vLMfYYw

bigtubby · Post by **bigtubby** » Mon Dec 18, 2017 10:25 pm

I suppose that the answer lies in how well one is able to use it ...
https://youtu.be/hXQENMn6GYI

apkujala · Post by **apkujala** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 3:18 am

I had to buy big tuba because I need to compensate. So in fact my Bb Kaiser is compensating.

tubapix · Post by **tubapix** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 9:28 am

So our girth looks smaller in comparison to the instrument

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:10 pm

tubapix wrote:So our girth looks smaller in comparison to the instrument

That's why I stuck with tuba! (and it works!)

Heavy_Metal · Post by **Heavy_Metal** » Tue Dec 19, 2017 10:58 pm

Stryk wrote:I like big BATS, I cannot lie....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ImZTwYwCug

Wrong clip. Try this one- the one with the tuba:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w59e20ijOpE" target="_blank

Ace · Post by **Ace** » Wed Dec 20, 2017 1:53 am

A little-known fact is that the very first large tuba created a standard for all that came thereafter. That huge tuba was the "Ulence" with five valves. The BB flatUlence was a gas to play, particularly blastissimo.

Ace

humBell · Post by **humBell** » Wed Dec 20, 2017 11:24 am

Corralary question...

Why are other instruments (by and large) small?

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