[Trombone-l] Calling all musicologists... slightly off topic...

[thetubameister@adelphia.net]

Okay, I'm suddenly unsure about something I've always been sure of :-)

On wikipedia, I read that Berlioz had at some later point rescored the Symphonie Fantastique for two tubas instead of ophicleides.  I was aware that he changed an earlier vbersion with a serpent to two ophicleides, and my understanding was that Berlioz had never used tube without an ophicleide also present.  I was also pretty darn sure that he had okayed the _use_ of a tuba for the second ophicleide part, but not for both.

Who's right?  And is the tuba being refered to one of the "french" high c instruments or some saxhorn variant of the larger pitches...

Howard?  Anyone?  Claiming two tubas sounds just wrong to me - but Wikipedia isn't exactly a scholarly site.