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Yamaha YEB.. EEb has the 4th valve and they sound bauetifull especially when playing in top register for renaisance suite, I found boosey n hawkes Eb does well also. the low end on yamaha sounds good as well can almost match the BBb, EEb was my main instrument in home bands in regional Queensland where everyone else was Bb though I just read Bass clef no transposing except when played small Eb (boosey n Hawkes) transpose up the octave as music would get too low

I read the first couple words and immediately thought you were gonna jump into a story about how you literally fell into a tuba bell

Except for the Alto trombone, It's read in Alto clef.

Hey now, the key signature will be totally different, because your note names are the same as treble clef

Well.. not ANY Eb instrument. Trombones learn to read in concert pitch. And because trombone players first learn to play the Bb tenor trombones in concert pitch, the trick to Eb (alto) trombone is that it does better reading in F.

Clef. Cleft is the past tense of cleave, to cut something. As in cleft in twain, cut into two pieces. Clef is a register of a musical staff, as in bass clef or treble clef.

@@drmikegallant Yeah that's fair! i did post this 5 years ago and was definitely wrong at the time, but I was basing it on my experience with alto sax-- shouldn't have spoken for all Eb instruments though

Yeah just read the Eb transposed music like bass clef. I do it with my Bari sax when I read tuba music

I'm BBb tuba

I'm a BBb Sousaphone

Weird I am a human

Bb Tuba but I want to play euphonium and eb tuba. Maybe Alto horn as well.

I'm a BBb Tuba and I'm also the only tuba lol

I just got a YEB 321 to learn E flat as a secondary and I love it. I really don't even mind it is a top 4v and non-compensating.

Tuba is a hard instrument to start off learning, although I don't necessarily approve of the 'heavy blasting horn' comment, I must admit that I have been known to utter the sentiment that excellence comes through volume.

no no what I mean is I compose music .... you can hear it on my youtube channel....It is done on synthesizer, but I want to add real tuba in (absolute must) and mutitrack notes through a reverb (echo) unit ... for example a low C chord an octave below middle C and that is what gives the low tuba notes this fog horn sound ...I love that sound....

If you want a really good fog horn sound, get two euphos, have one play pedal Bb, and the other play C, a 9th higher.

Jamane Jope-Neligan his primary instrument is Euphonium

None he is a conductor

They're all written in concert pitch - the player of an Eb tuba would have to memorise a different set of fingering compared to a Bb tuba player.

Trent Hamilton that sounds weird. I play Bb Tuba and tried an Eb today and the only difference was size and the Eb had a sound I can only describe as like between a trombone and a Tuba, but otherwise everything else (including fingerings) is the same

The fingerings on Eb tubas are different.

Soprano euphonium?

Benjabenja77 yeah, isn't there a euphonium higher than an alto horn?

+NostalgiaKarl A euphonium higher than an alto horn would effectively be a flugelhorn, but that's considered a completely different instrument and is held and played like a trumpet or mellophone. It's really rather amazing how quickly the 1/f scaling law makes low wind instruments large. Euphoniums certainly _look_ like they'd be more than an octave lower than flugelhorns, but they're not. Baritone saxophones look similarly huge compared to altos, although there is only an octave between them, and the reason is the same. It's not just the length that doubles, but also the width of the cone before the bell flare. Certainly the weight is much more than doubled.

ComedyDude1231 i think Eb horns are used commonly in Europe not so much anywhere else. oh there's plenty of other treble clef brass instruments: alto horn, both alto and tenor cor, most of the saxhorns, all G bugles (even contrabass!), alto and smaller trombones, just to name a handful. who's the maker of your horn? the better horns have compensating valve systems

pds tech Eb horns are popular in the UK, but for other European nations such as Germany they use Bb. For treble clef instruments I was going off common instruments. Professional tubas here have a filth valve to mimic the compensating system, and you don't need a compensating system to sound good it just takes practice to memorize what that note sounds like and how to play it correctly. I wouldn't say instrument with compensation valve systems are better, i mean anywhere outside the UK you don't find any high reputation professionals using a compensating valve Eb horn, also not very many companies make professional Eb horns and i also find a lot of professional Eb horns not having compensating systems but rather 5 front action rotary valves.

yes, i have not seen anyone I know use Eb. just not enough of them made over here to attract anything other than a collector. Im a fan of compensating valves on euphonium since you can rely on it to help. but yes, you can adjust your playing certain notes without. I love uncommon horns :) thanks for clarifying who and where Eb horns are used!

The french horn can read in bass clef too. It's fun playing real low on a horn. :)

Who would even know what kind of tuba is being used?

that's actually a false tone!

+Indy HotDog If I ever meet someone who calls identifies themselves as Maddie, I'll be sure to mention that Indy HotDog says hello :)

Yes, but you might have to have it taken apart and reassembled in a mirrored fashion to get a good position for your left hand. It has been done on several occasions.

Add three flats C,B,Bb D,Db,C etc.

Practice and learning fingering.

+cian Kelly Yes, Bb tubas can have either piston or rotary valves, and have a minimum of three valves. I've seen some tubas that have 6 or more.

This is generally speaking

I play a little Bb Tuba, and I'm pretty sure it would be bass clef since its a base instrument. My main instrument is a Tenor Trombone and it's even in bass clef.

In practically every avenue of of brass playing (Orchestra, chamber, concert bands) you read Tuba, trombone and euphonium in concert pitch regardless of the key the instrument. But when you play in a traditional English style Brass Band, Tuba, trombones, Euphonium and horns read treble clef transposed to either Eb or Bb depending on the instrument.

C. Clerc As the bass trombonist in my jazz band, from my time sneaking some notes from the bari sax, yes you can.

+Mike Liu Just search for Arban's carnival of Venice, if you're wanting the version I usually play. Although there are other good arrangements out there, such as that by Clarke.

Mike Liu both the arban or Clarke version are written for the Bb cornet or trumpet and you will have to transpose down one whole step as you are reading treble clef in order to be in concert pitch; it's a challenge but worth it if you can't find a version for tuba in bass clef. It's very satisfying to be able to crank out a great rendition of this tune for the skeptics, if they had any doubts as to your playing abilities this will make them true believers...

Michael Kirby I wouldn't know sorry, I didn't set it up, it was my band teacher

Yes indeed, you just subtract 3 shaprs instead of add them. Useful for bass trombone players to nick Eb parts if you forget your music!

okay thank you!

5 months late, it is compensating as I recognize the horn he's using, but you can also tell because of the tubing in both in front and behind the instrument

Compensating. Almost all 4 valves (and quite a few 3 valve)tubas are compensating.

+Emperor_Xenolius no they're not. That's pretty much a British convention, as evidenced with his Besson.

Ok, almost all GOOD tubas are compensating :)

+Emperor_Xenolius XD I don't know that I would necessarily consider Besson as one of the really good tubas... but hey Fletch could make them sing!

You do in a brass band.

Trent Hamilton wow... I did not know that... Thanks!

Michael Kirby I played Trumpet for two years and recently switched to Bb tuba, and I replay my old music in treble clef all the time with my Tuba.

BRAYAN AMAYA mires en ingles

Learn ENGLISH

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It's the British Brass Band system of music where all the instruments (except bass trombone) reads treble clef and is transposed to sound in their appropriate register. Think this also means, everyone can read each others parts and can switch instruments as needed. Unrelated to the brass band, but this is also how all saxophones parts are written as, no matter what their fundamental pitch is, a saxophonist read their fingering in C Major on the treble clef and can therefore switch amongst the sax family without having to learn new fingerings or read a different clef. Still, since I learned in a different system (in America) I'm used to reading BBb tuba written as sounds in bass clef and therefore generally play bass trombone parts whenever I play in a silver band. Although, I like not having to worry about transposing, I can see the benefits of the system when switching to euphonium or trombone written as sounds as, since I'm primarily a contrabass tuba player, I'm not as quick reading ledgers above the bass clef as I am reading notes below it, lol

dennis brown shut up. he is a great musician