Dean E wrote:Ask yourself if your tuba is more of a feminine instrument. Or is it masculine? I would follow classic Latin style conventions:
tuba-singular female
tubus-singular male
Probably female, right? Then use:
tubae-plural female, or
tubi-plural male or plural of both genders
Oh, come on! Tubas are boys; I mean, look at the tubes....look at the valves....do you see anything female-ish on there? I mean, where are the boobies? None! No Where! Maybe they are boys named Sue, but they are boys!
JTJ wrote:Wish we had another name for it. Wish the word baritone wasn't preempted (among the faithful) for the small bore saxhorn used in brass bands.
Tenorium?
Instead of talking to your plants, if you yelled at them would they still grow, but only to be troubled and insecure?
JTJ wrote:Wish we had another name for it. Wish the word baritone wasn't preempted (among the faithful) for the small bore saxhorn used in brass bands.
Dean E wrote:Ask yourself if your tuba is more of a feminine instrument. Or is it masculine? I would follow classic Latin style conventions:
tuba-singular female
tubus-singular male
Probably female, right? Then use:
tubae-plural female, or
tubi-plural male or plural of both genders
Oh, come on! Tubas are boys; I mean, look at the tubes....look at the valves....do you see anything female-ish on there? I mean, where are the boobies? None! No Where! Maybe they are boys named Sue, but they are boys!
MA
OK, MaryAnn. I understand your point, and I'll take the bait.
Warmup time, listening and making tone adjustments, digital and mouth techniques, sympathetic harmonics, frequency adjustments, and bore and bell aperture data would be on my list.
Dean E
[S]tudy politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy . . . in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry [and] music. . . . John Adams (1780)
