historical toobas

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Has anyone else considered taking up this previous-century/obsolete collegium musicum instrument as a double?
I believe the primary maker of these was a builder that went by the name of "Mattel"...so French, then...??
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> I may have read somewhere that Verdi HATED the tuba, but LOVED the tooba.
> You know, Berlioz originally orchestrated "Symphonie Fantastique" for two toobas, but later re-scored it for tubas.

Featuring hydrocarbonate construction, these were way ahead of their time, were they not?

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I'm confused...

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Three Valves wrote: Mon Nov 30, 2020 8:36 am I'm confused...

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There you go again: throwing a monkey wrench in an otherwise serious musicological discussion. :eyes:

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bloke wrote: Mon Nov 30, 2020 9:05 amThere you go again: throwing a monkey wrench in an otherwise serious musicological discussion.

Don't be so hard on Three Valves. I think he may have just mistaken the Tooba with the Twoba

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