Specifications:
- Give players free rein to express their own musical personalities
- Especially good center and projection
- Accurate intonation and comfortable quick response have made this one of the world's most popular french horns
- Quick responsive motions is provided by the articulated key levers
- This Horn is known for accurate intonation and comfortable, quick response
- Great tone color flexibility with rich, focused core
- This marching horn is perfect for beginning marching band students
- The technological and acoustical flexibility enables the artist to perform in a wide variety of playing situations
- Bb tone
Details:
- Give players free rein to express their own musical personalities
- Especially good center and projection
- Quick responsive motions is provided by the articulated key levers
How to Begin to Play the Tuba:
- Practice your embouchure (mouth formation). Relax your throat, jaw and chin and rest your tongue on the bottom of your mouth, "anchoring" the tip on the backside of your lower teeth. Gently touch your lips together. Keep your cheeks flat and the corners of your lips firm as you blow air out through your lips. Allow your lips to flap, making a sound like a horse
- Repeat Step 1, but this time try placing the tuba mouthpiece to your mouth prior to blowing air out. The mouthpiece should be centered both horizontally and vertically. Practice keeping a relaxed, open throat and oral cavity
- Assemble the tuba. Secure the mouthpiece into the receiver with a gentle twist. If your tuba also has a removable bell, place the bell section into the receiver and gently tighten the screws
- Take your tuba and sit in a straight-backed chair with no arms
- Sit straight with your legs slightly apart. Rest the tuba in your lap with the bell pointing up. Angle the tuba as needed to bring the mouthpiece to your mouth
- Support the tuba with your left hand. Holding the tuba, if the valves or pistons are to the right of the leadpipe, the left arm and hand will reach around the front of the instrument to support it. If the valves or pistons are to the left of the leadpipe, the left hand will rest over the top curve of the tuba, nearly parallel to the floor, gently holding the tuning slides
- Position your right hand for fingering. Holding the tuba, if the valves or pistons are to the right of the leadpipe, the right arm remains behind the tuba with the fingertips on the valves, fingers slightly arched and thumb resting below the tubing and behind the valves. If the valves or pistons are to the left of the leadpipe, the right hand will reach to the front of the tuba with fingers slightly arched and thumb placed in or near the thumb ring
- Produce sound on your tuba. Any sound will do at first. Try making small adjustments to your embouchure and breathing until you achieve this step
- Join a beginning-level ensemble or invest in private lessons to continue advancing on the tuba
About Tubas:
- Description - The tuba is primarily a conical brass tube--conical because the tube diameter increases the farther away it gets from the mouthpiece. The tube ends in a large bell shape. The tube wraps around on itself, otherwise the instrument would be too large and unwieldy to handle for one person. The tuba's tube length controls its deep sound, so different tuba types have different lengths of tubing. The main tube of the F tuba is 12 feet, the E-flat 13 feet, the C tuba 16 feet and the B-flat tuba 18 feet. Tubas have valves that players press, diverting air through the tubing and thus effectively changing the length the tube to achieve different notes
- Types According to Pitch - Tubas are tuned to various notes, especially F, E-flat, C or B-flat. The C and B-flat tubas are known as CC and BB-flat tubas. These two, as the deepest, are the contrabass tubas (contrabass refers to an instrument with a range that extends lower than the usual bass range). The bass tubas are the F and E-flat tubas. One of these is usually the standard tuba used in symphony orchestras. The tenor tuba in B-flat is tuned an octave above the BB-flat tuba. Another tenor tuba is the French C tuba
- Types According to Shape - Tubas that have the tubes wrapped so that the player can rest the instrument on his lap as he plays are called concert tubas. Tubas that have the bell end pointing forward are called recording tubas. The sousaphone has the bell pointed up and then out to point forward, as well as having the tubing wrapped so that it can go around the body for marching. The sousaphone was named after John Philip Sousa, an important wind band conductor and composer of marching tunes often heard in parades
- Valves - Tubas usually have three to six valves that come in two types: piston or rotary. The piston type needs more care than the rotary valves, though the piston valves are easier to access. Tubas with three valves are popular among amateur players and in marching bands (the sousaphone has three valves). When a valve is pressed, the air can flow into more tubing so that lower notes are achieved
- Uses - Latin for "trumpet" or "horn," the tuba appeared in the nineteenth century and now provides the main bass voice in many musical instrumental settings. It was an important invention, because as concert halls got larger, the need for a instrument to project a bass voice became acute. Symphony orchestras usually use just one tuba, while military and symphonic bands use more. The tuba is also used as the bass voice in brass quintets, and can be used as a solo instrument
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