What's the lowest thing you've ever played on tuba (euph..)?

[jbaylies]

wow!

[jbaylies]

[tubatooter1940]

wow!

That's a really low blow.

[Highams]

I needed 3 octaves for each verse in my arrangement of the Tchaikowsky Cradle Song, so started fairly low down in the register;

http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=606071&t=6081

CB

[jeopardymaster]

Benjamin Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem (NOT the War Requiem)has a wicked little passage in it, one that occasionally shows up on audition lists but probably should be on every one. Very low and slow, extremely exposed. I think it goes down to CC#, don't remember for sure. Much different kind of lick from the one in Jupiter -- that one is doubled or tripled at the octave, though nasty in its own right.

I don't have the music - but someone who posts else might.

[OldsRecording]

[quote="EuphManRob
Uh... can humans even hear CCC as a distinct pitch?
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Is it really a 'distinct' pitch when you can count the individual cycles per second?

[Quicksilvertuba]

I'm trying to remember something in H.S. physics about how a black hole has such a low frequency that it sounds 32 octaves below middle c. ... Might be wrong though.

[Quicksilvertuba]

found it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3096776.stm

Though I was wrong about how many octaves it was ...never would have guessed b flat

[Steve Marcus]

In his BP CSO Radio interview on NPR, Gene Pokorny demonstrates how low the tuba can go. After heading down from the GGG in the "misprinted edition" of Edgard Varese's Arcana, the interviewer asks Gene,

"What note was that?"

"Well, I don't know. It was kinda nasty. You can call it anything you want."

One of the lowest notes in a melody is FFF in Beth Lodal's arrangement of Prokofiev's Vision Fugitives as recorded by her husband, Mr. Pokorny.

That same FFF is in the tuba solo in the "Hoch" movement of Goff Richard's Homage to the Noble Grape. When I played that note in a Chicago Brass Band performance of that piece, our conductor made a motion to the audience as if he were...ummm...having "gastric distress."

[Dean E]

. . . . When I played that note in a Chicago Brass Band performance of that piece, our conductor made a motion to the audience as if he were...ummm...having "gastric distress."

Yeah, I know the sign from a rehearsal where I nearly got mooned from the podium.

[TubaRay]

check this out, this is for a HS band camp over at TCU, check out the low B natural......this is definitley a poor arrangement (taken an octave below the bass trombone part)...there are going to be alot of HS kids struggling

[url]http://www.band.tcu.edu/band%20cam ... mpTuba.pdf

That should make it possible to separate the men from the boys(or women from the girls). The low register stuff should be pretty challenging to all.

[Todd S. Malicoate]

check this out, this is for a HS band camp over at TCU, check out the low B natural......this is definitley a poor arrangement (taken an octave below the bass trombone part)...there are going to be alot of HS kids struggling

Agreed...ridiculous excerpt for a high school audition.