Among brass instruments, the contra-bass tuba is in C . A pedal harp tuned to C major has all of its pedals in the middle position.
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He started to play the piano while in elementary school, then moved on to bass tuba and violin before settling on cornet and then trumpet at the age of thirteen.
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Chester Schmitz had to be muscular of lungs and body to make the intimidating bass tuba behave melodically _ and gently when he used a mute the size of a cheerleader's megaphone.
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Contemporary works featuring this instrument are D�sir?Dondeyne's " Tubissimo " for bass tuba or saxhorn and piano ( 1983 ) and Olivier Messiaen's " Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum " ( 1964 ).
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The composition is scored for a mixed chorus with soprano, alto, tenor and horns in F, three trumpets in F, three trombones, one bass tuba, timpani, cymbals, one harp and a complete string section.
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Foard has been heard twice on NPR's Performance Today : once as a soloist performing Ralph Vaughan Williams "'Concerto for Bass Tuba " and again performing William Bolcom's " Virtuosity Rag " with brass quintet.
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Thus, your Euphonium is only a fourth away, not an octave and a half, and your Bass Tuba that can get down to D1 is adequate on the low end by more than a fifth.
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London's transparent sound brings out myriad details of instrumentation : the fluttering of flutes, the grunt of the bass tuba, the eerie sparkle of harp or pizzicato strings or xylophone, the subterranean slithering of the contrabassoon.
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In general, after the advent of the more conical bass tuba, the term " cimbasso " was used to refer to a more blending voice than the " basso tuba " or " bombardone ", and began to imply the lowest trombone.
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This means that all bell-front brass instruments are legal to play in competition, such as Bb trumpets, F mellophones, Bb Contra Bass tubas, etc . However, keeping with tradition of older drum corps, Tradition fields a corps of almost all G bugles.
