[Trombone-l] Cimbasso or tuba?

[Walter Barrett]

On Sep 11, 2006, at 5:36 PM, d. sleeman wrote:

> Listmates,
>
> I have been asked to play the tuba part in Verdi's opera I Lombardi.
>
> Shouldn't that be a (contra)bass trombone or a cimbasso instead?
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick Sleeman, Lelystad, Holland. <d.sleeman at hccnet.nl>

According to James Gourlay's excellent paper on the use of Cimbasso  
in Verdi, the instrument most likely used in 1843 in La Scala would  
have been ophicleide, so whatever gets you closest to that. Small F  
tuba, cimbasso, even a euphonium can work.


Walter Barrett

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