FRANKENTUBA: A Home-Brewed Tenor Tuba in High Ab

TheHatTuba · Post by **TheHatTuba** » Wed May 04, 2011 8:02 pm

the elephant wrote:Junked, incomplete horns that contributed to this so far:

Reynolds TB-12 BBb tuba
Mirafone 186 BBb tuba

. Oh well, their going towards a really cool little tuba

SousaSaver · Post by **SousaSaver** » Wed May 04, 2011 11:33 pm

WHOA!

arpthark · Post by **arpthark** » Thu May 05, 2011 2:20 am

Awesome. I love projects like this. Good luck with this one, sir.

I'm considering doing something similar with parts from my GG blat-weasel... some day.

the elephant wrote: However, being in Ab is also pretty good as that places the fingering pattern of the Bydlo solo into that of C minor on a CC tuba. That is not quite as solid, pitch-wise on many tubas as B minor, but I will take it.

How do you reckon?

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Thu May 05, 2011 5:19 am

Why would you want a tenor tuba in A? After al there are some many players out there able to make a Bb euph sound a semitone flat.

K

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Sat May 07, 2011 1:10 am

One might guess this one will be a straight shooter.

K

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Sat May 07, 2011 1:24 am

Have you tried to put in the valves and play the open bugle of this incarnation?

K

imperialbari · Post by **imperialbari** » Sat May 07, 2011 3:12 am

Hello Scottye, I know you are looking!

Just stirring the pot a bit:

From very similar parts, only narrower and longer, you could get a Wagner tuba in F. Straight bell and pistons shouldn’t hurt the musical function.

Klaus

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