Rick Denney wrote:I'm trying to wean myself off of doubling the letters. Does anyone not know what I mean if I write "C tuba" or "Bb tuba"? If I meant instruments in the tenor range, I'd use other words in any case.
if you say C tuba, you MIGHT get it confused with the french C tuba
Nope, I'm not buying it.
Fred walks up to George in the music building at Enormous State University, and says, "Wow, my prof just told me ESU is buying four new C tubas for us to use!"
George will not be assuming that Fred is describing le tuba petit et ut. And if he asks, then he's even more of a pedantic know-it-all than I am.
Rick "assuming nowadays that 'c tuba' = 'contrabass' even if the subject is Bydlo, and even if the conversant is French" Denney
Serge wrote:Well I always thought that a C tuba was always considered a french tuba and a CC tuba was just a contra bass tuba pitched in C and a Bb tuba is a euphonium/baritone and a BBb tuba is the tuba I play at school.
I'm not saying its right or wrong, thats just what I assumed.
You mean that if another (non-elderly French) tuba player walked up to you and see, "Hey, check out my new C" or even "check out the C tuba I bought on ebay", you would assume he was talking about a small French C tuba?
Serge wrote:If someone walked up to me and said that, I would most likely assume its a CC. Not many people I know of in real life feel the need to say CC instead of C.
I don't think I've ever heard anyone actually talk about CC (as in seesee) tubas - isn't it only a written distinction?
Neptune wrote:But in brass bands I have often heard the expression "double bee flat bass", or just "double bee" as in "he plays double bee".
In my auto parts sales world, it's about 50/50 between customers who ask for a "PCV valve" or a "PVC valve"...just 'cause people say it, don't make it correct.
Todd "the plumbing section is in the back of the store" S. Malicoate
Neptune wrote:But in brass bands I have often heard the expression "double bee flat bass", or just "double bee" as in "he plays double bee".
In my auto parts sales world, it's about 50/50 between customers who ask for a "PCV valve" or a "PVC valve"...just 'cause people say it, don't make it correct.
Todd "the plumbing section is in the back of the store" S. Malicoate
But what if they start makinkg them out of heat-resistant plactic? Then you'd would have a PVC/PCV valve...
(but I bet they'd still put the plumbing section in the back!)
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
