On Jan 7, 2006, at 10:56 AM, Andrew Stiller wrote:
It wouldn't surprise me to find that, now that low B natural has become standard for professionals (it wasn't, back then), that the low B flat has become rarer, or vanished altogether from new models.
The heavy classical symphony players with the local orchestras here (including the Montreal Symphony) all claim that the low B joint ruins a flute's tone and response in high-end flutes. When they have to play a low B in a concert, they pick up another flute to play it on, then put it down at the earliest opportunity to pick up their regular instrument. This might be more a function of available instruments than something inherently bad about low B joints, but there it is.
Baritone saxophonists tell me the same thing about the low written A key that is standard on almost all new bari saxes, and I have never played a BBb tuba that was anywhere near the quality of the best CC tubas.
I don't get it myself, but I know I have idiosyncratic notions about MY instruments, too, that I wouldn't expect a non-low-brass player to understand.
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