Why not a D tuba?

[MartyNeilan]

Here is a thread from the Old TubeNet about D/DD tubas. Personally, I think they woud be a good thing. Especially if you have a big ol' 3 valve Eb tuba that is chronically flat. By the time you are done adding 2 more valves and any necessary tuning slide rerouting to fit in the valves the horn will probably be close to D anyway.
http://www.chisham.com/tips/bbs/mar2000 ... 25039.html

[TexTuba]

You know the next logical question is the G tuba.

Ralph

[Biggs]

I've always preferred the B# models.

[MartyNeilan]

You know the next logical question is the G tuba.

Oh, you mean one of these?
http://www.rogerbobo.com/instruments/g_tuba.shtml


And the page on his D tuba:
http://www.rogerbobo.com/instruments/d_tuba.shtml
Maybe you could email Rose for more info on it.

[Eric Fritz]

Roger in fact used his D tuba in the orchestra on pieces like Franck D minor. It´s a mirafone with a Besson bell. He also played his G tuba on pieces like Lohengrin and B Cellini. The G was a stock tuba that Mirafone had. No one knows why they had made it but Roger was at the right place at the right time. I am quite sure that these instruments are still for sale. I too think this practice of using ¨"not so standard" pitched tubas could be very useful. I´m personally still saving to buy his contrabass french horn which is truly a fantastic instrument.

[Eric Fritz]

I justed checked out the link that Marty put up and see that Mike Lynch has the French horn. Mike, we need to talk in a few years!

[Steve Oberheu]

Roger in fact used his D tuba in the orchestra on pieces like Franck D minor. It´s a mirafone with a Besson bell. He also played his G tuba on pieces like Lohengrin and B Cellini. The G was a stock tuba that Mirafone had. No one knows why they had made it but Roger was at the right place at the right time. I am quite sure that these instruments are still for sale. I too think this practice of using ¨"not so standard" pitched tubas could be very useful. I´m personally still saving to buy his contrabass french horn which is truly a fantastic instrument.

While studying in Lausanne, Roger let us play on his instruments for fun whenever we could (and even let us take some of them on a gig). He would even occasionally give some students assignments...like playing the first Bach cello suite on G tuba or learning the Hindemith Sonate on F, Eb, D and CC tubas, then choosing which sounded the best. Hmmm...I don't seem to remember anyone completing them...

I really liked the D tuba a lot. Great response, really interesting tone color. Plus, it was the first tuba I'd ever seen with quarters glued to the paddles. I remember he mentioned Franck D minor and Dvorak New World (gotta do something to make it more interesting!) as pieces that the D sounded great on. I wanted to buy that horn from him, but never could pull enough scratch together.

Oh, and Eric...I think the bass horn already sold. I wonder if the current owner ever plays it?

[joshwirt]

Unfortunately, most of Roger's instruments have been sold. The D tuba (which is a fantastic instrument...just strange playing F with a 2-3 fingering!) belongs to Rose Schweikhart of TubaNews fame, the G belongs to someone in Japan I believe, the tenor tuba now belongs to James Manganaro (also of TubaNews), the contrabass horn belongs to a private collector somewhere in the Texas, the prototype Yamaha F belongs to an Italian tubist, the contrabass trumpet belongs to a Swiss tubist in Lausanne, and the contrabass trombone now belongs to Murray Crewe of the Pittsburgh Symphony. I think that the Minick cimbasso is the only instrument that hasn't sold, although that may have changed since Roger and I last spoke about the instrument.

-Josh

[TexTuba]

You know the next logical question is the G tuba.

Oh, you mean one of these?
http://www.rogerbobo.com/instruments/g_tuba.shtml


And the page on his D tuba:
http://www.rogerbobo.com/instruments/d_tuba.shtml
Maybe you could email Rose for more info on it.

I do!!

Ralph

[Steve Inman]

D-D D-D-D D D

What key was the theme music in? (D?)

[MartyNeilan]

Marty,
I think that picture might be misplaced on R. Bobo's website. That looks more to me like an Alex Bb tenor tuba.

His "D" tuba had very much a tall-bell Mirafone look to it (formerly a very sharply-built 184-CC...or something )

That pic was of his "G" tuba in response to the query of why not also a G. You are right, it is almost a tenor tuba (only a minor 3rd lower). Plus, ALL tubas look small compared to Roger

Here is a pic of the Besson-belled D:


And, in comparison, the tenor tuba looks almost like a toy in his hands

[geomiklas]

Harmonicas come in all chromatic keys, so why not tubas? However, it would be quite difficult if all tuba players carried 12 tubas to a gig.

[hurricane_harry]

last i checked all conrta bass tubas are bugels, making them in the key of G