[Trombone-l] Cimbasso or tuba?

Tue Sep 12 09:31:20 CDT 2006

Hmmm.... Maybe I'll throw the euph in the car in case our conductor insist's on a "tuba".  Good idea.

J.c.S.

---- Walter Barrett <walttrombone at optonline.net> wrote: 
> 
> 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
> 
> "so does the sound exist somewhere in your head
> and you try to find a brass funnel that fits ???
> OR do you fit your head into the brass funnel
> ????????????? "
> 	-DJ Kennedy
> 
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