Compensating F tuba

[michael_glenn]

My teacher, Tucker Jolly, has a compensating F tuba. It's set up like a 3+1 Eb. But it's in F. I've never seen anything like it. Has anyone else seen something like this, or cut a compensating Eb to F?

[bisontuba]

Hi-
Boosey & Besson made them.
Mark

[michael_glenn]

Just saying.... I want one. Tucker's plays basically perfectly in tune and sounds amazing. I am hoping one day he will sell it to me. *fingers crossed*

[Ulli]

http://www.walternirschl.de/sites/sites ... rschl.html" target="_blank

[MaryAnn]

I don't think those Nirschls are around any more.

[eupher61]

I already have given Tucker my dibs on HIS F. the school's is ok but the 4th valve would have to go. BTW, Tucker said I'd have to talk to his daughter about it after he's gone
..it's going nowhere until then.


Steve..
MM '86

[michael_glenn]

I already have given Tucker my dibs on HIS F. the school's is ok but the 4th valve would have to go. BTW, Tucker said I'd have to talk to his daughter about it after he's gone
..it's going nowhere until then.


Steve..
MM '86

Well in that case, can I have dibs on it after you? Haha

[eupher61]

does Tucker still have the orange? I don't think I asked last time I was there.

Seriously...is his email the same? I'd love to get a couple of charts from him.

That Besson is the single best tuba I have ever played, period. Those have bad reputations, but it's obvious there are gems. Have you played his Alex? another beauty if pitch can be rustled.

you're in a great situation. but the old faculty was absolutely amazing across the board. Get with Larry Snider about Inner Game stuff...it will come in quite handy. I'm proud to be a Zip!

[michael_glenn]

His email is the same. Last I checked, he had two CC tubas and his F. Which CC's, I'm not sure. I think one of them is his Hirsbrunner.

[Art Hovey]

I saw Tucker give a recital on a british-style compensating 3+1 F tuba many years ago when he was teaching at the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven. He pulled his first or third valve slide on almost every note, and not just a little. He had all of his pulls planned and worked out, and the performance was flawless. I just couldn't help wondering if the compensating system was worth the price if all that pulling was necessary. (But there were not many F tubas available back then.)

[eupher61]

same one, Art, but I never have seen him pulling or pushing on it.

[michael_glenn]

For those of you who are unsure about this horn... Listen.
http://www.dwerden.com/SoundFiles/Tuba/ ... Horn-1.mp3" target="_blank
http://www.dwerden.com/SoundFiles/Tuba/ ... Horn-2.mp3" target="_blank

[dwerden]

I don't mean to complicate this discussion, but the recordings posted above were done on a Miraphone F that Tucker was handed when he flew in to play at T.U.B.A. conference in 1980 in Denton, TX. He was a Miraphone clinician at the time, I believe. My memory of hearing that was that he would have sounded even better on his Besson F, which I had heard him play many times. Part of that could have been due to the fact that it was a brand-new horn that he had not played before.

One of these days I'll try to post Tucker's recording of the entire Capuzzi Concerto with the USCG Band, which WAS done on his Besson. It was great!