tooba: can't promise a link until this weekend. The sample recordings are at my studio, and I won't be able to make the AB comparison tape until then.
Did you mean to say 163? the 164 is truly a 6/4 BART - 0.846" bore. 163's (5/4) while mine has the 16.75" bell, still has 0.810" boretooba wrote:My CC tuba (M-W 5/4 rotary) is probably somewhat similar to the Alex 164
Don't get me wrong, the 164 doesn't sound like a 345, it is much more direct than that... But there is a definite girth to the sound.
mp3 link to ensue... words are failing me!
Probably true - will work on anything from large F to 6/4 CC if played well. We often get far too focused on equipment to use, while everyone else (other than tuba players) just wants a good sounding in tune, in time tuba. So best to just play on whatever instrument you feel you can do the most competent job, regardless of historical 'correctness', whatever that may be.
) necessary as a point of fact, so a bass tuba would work, especially with some of the higher voicing in the last movement. The big horn is in fact (to me) a little disruptive... but it's not half as bad as "Great Gate of Kiev".
