At 12:13 AM +0100 10/24/05, Ken Moore wrote:
John Howell wrote:
There's also another factor that no one has mentioned. Bass clarinet
is one thing, but EEb contra-alto is another. Most educational
arrangements do not have separate parts for the EEb contra.
Therefore, EEb players are stuck reading a concert pitch bass clef
part as a normal thing--either bassoon or tuba, I would assume, or
even bari sax in treble clef.
EEb clarinet and baritone sax players presumably do the same as Eb
tuba players faced with bass clef, concert pitch: add three sharps
and read as treble. Accidentals need either quick thinking or
memorising, of course.
As it happens, I play Eb tuba in our community band. (I played BBb
in Jr. High, but an Eb is the instrument that was available to borrow
from our conductor.) I know the theory that you suggest very well,
but it simply doesn't work for me. Somehow my mind rejects using
pretend trumpet fingerings. I simply had to learn a second set of
fingerings for Eb tuba. (And then a third set when the best compact
pit tuba I could check out for "Annie" turned out to be a CC!)
John
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