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Tuba or not tuba

Tubacabura

Americans pronounce it too-bah, in case you didn't get the joke. (we say chew-bah in my country)

@@firstnamelastname4752 Then how would you pronounce tubaka?

have you listened to Patrick WIbart play it? Oh my gosh! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qp-ddZpjuamce6s.htmlsi=ZoHqrPJzl9hRmjgC

Is it really? I mean look at the thing? This is why it is the Forerunner of low brass and not the sought after today.

I have a cheap plastic Jhorn which tunes better on the whole although this serpent does have interesting deep notes. I would expect: hard to play but still with a somewhat exotic, rich and full sound. That the volume and projection would be less good is no problem musically speaking.

You guys are talking well tempered tuning. This instrument existed way before well tempered.

@@southfloridaarcheryguy114 I believe we are talking about the ability to control the pitch of an instrument you are playing, but you raise a fair point. It was at least a hundred years before bach's WTC that these were first used.

Please tell if you manage to recall the name!

Little do you know the rabbit hole you sent me down. Now Im researching history of durch cape colonies and their civilization in south africa. And found pictures in a article of the serpent your most likely talking about in a church that is now a museum in south africa. Since the europeans were using the serpent in churches back then its cool to see they brought it with them to south africa most likely.

Punishment for playing this beast 😂😂😂😂

The giant iguana oh so scary!

Yeah, a sort of Tuba-Bassoon hybrid.

Hello! This image came from a 19th-century French periodical called Université illustrée, and the print is titled "Chantres au lutrin," by Henri Brispot.

@@ForgottenClefs Fabulous, thank you!

To be fair, basically as soon as valves were invented for brass instruments, people started trying to make them free-er blowing and larger bore, and tried to make low brass instruments. Berlin pump valves were invented in 1833, and the first bass tuba (with five valves!) was patented just two years later in 1835. Within a couple decades, tubas had largely replaced other low brass instruments, and huge contrabass instruments were being made. Everyone knew the serpent and ophicleide sucked, but they didn't have the tech to do anything better. Long trumpets were manageable, but a valveless 32 or 36 foot tuba would not have worked well.

TMI…

Haha my husband plays this song on the toilet _aaaallll_ the time! 💩🚽🤣

The shofar and related instruments made of animal horns are so old, predating the serpent by so much that we can't really say that the shofar is a direct ancestor to the serpent but humans experimenting with putting holes into animal horns and wood horns to get different notes likely slowy developed into the idea of instruments like the serpent, cornett, zink.... Atleast the idea of it. There is much controvesy over who actually invented the serpent let alone where the idea came from so thats really the best answer.

Um… “they” can be a singular pronoun? “Oops a random person dropped THEIR wallet” like that

Pretty sure it is

If you're curious: that's "dies irae", a very old motif that symbols death. Its used in music throughout history all the time and you can hear it in movies pretty often!