John Howell wrote:
(And of course current practice is to omit the key of the instrument anyway, at least in the band world: We know that Alto Sax is in Eb, Trumpet is in Bb, and Tuba is in Bb, so the pitch is not needed to identify them.)
Question: why do we say that the Tuba is in Bb, when it's actually in C. I mean, I know that the fundamental of the tuba's tube is Bb, but it's a C instrument, just like bassoon or cello, isn't it? (and unlike the other instruments you mentioned, which transpose)
Instruments are named for the pitches produced by their basic scale, not whether they read concert pitch music or not.
-- David H. Bailey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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