Gene Pokorny Tuba ID

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Gene Pokorny Tuba ID

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What tuba is Mr. Pokorny using in this video?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b14hs-KT ... re=related" target="_blank
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Interesting. I just bought the violin sheet music for this thinking it might make a nice tuba solo. I guess I was right.
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What song is this?
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TheHatTuba wrote:What song is this?
Ashokan Farewell by Jay Ungar. It was used extensively in Ken Burn's Civil War series.
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Last year at the Chicago Tubachristmas, he played that same arrangement in honor of Harvey Phillips; I've actually been looking for a copy of the arrangement he used, does anybody know where to find it?
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thezman wrote: ...been looking for a copy of the arrangement he used, does anybody know where to find it?
Arrangement? Isn't he just playing the melody?
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Z-Tuba Dude wrote:
thezman wrote: ...been looking for a copy of the arrangement he used, does anybody know where to find it?
Arrangement? Isn't he just playing the melody?
Yeah, I'll bet he didn't use a printed arrangement.
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thezman wrote:Last year at the Chicago Tubachristmas, he played that same arrangement in honor of Harvey Phillips; I've actually been looking for a copy of the arrangement he used, does anybody know where to find it?
The violin arrangement I bought works just fine.
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Fiddle Tunes for Cello by Lucy Reuter (in bass clef) includes Ashokan Farewell. You can get it here: http://www.jayandmolly.com/prodbook.shtml" target="_blank" target="_blank. Straight from Jay Ungar no less.
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LJV wrote:Hirsbrunner HBS 394 (aka HB20).

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The difference between the HB20 and the HB21 is what?
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