the French tuba thread
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the French tuba thread
Since we tend to troll each other when a tread immediately goes off on some nutty tangent (and I'm the least innocent), here's a thread whereby everyone can stick to the topic of "French tubas".
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Re: the French tuba thread
Arpthark wrote:Just as Ravel intended.
now THAT système de plomberie français...I could figure out...
to your supposition:
Historical documentation demonstrates that Revel (though Italian) was actually more of a German tuba advocate.
Re: the French tuba thread
numpy.ravel() in Python*
The numpy.ravel() functions returns contiguous flattened array(1D array with all the input-array elements and with the same type as it).
So with one simple function, you can turn this,
into this.
Perhaps this reveals what Ravel really thought about tubas.
*A programming language for the non-nerds here. Real pythons generally don’t bother flattening tubas.
The numpy.ravel() functions returns contiguous flattened array(1D array with all the input-array elements and with the same type as it).
So with one simple function, you can turn this,
into this.
Perhaps this reveals what Ravel really thought about tubas.
*A programming language for the non-nerds here. Real pythons generally don’t bother flattening tubas.
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Re: the French tuba thread
I have a few French words in mind with this statement.
Nick
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Re: the French tuba thread
I slept on it (not literally...actually my cat, Covid-the-cat, slept on ME), and have decided that I really don't need to be owning all of these different contraptions, whereby my B-flat French tuba can be my one/do-anything tuba...
...so all of these other gadgets/contraptions/etc. are FOR SALE !!!
https://imgur.com/vvWDDzE
' sounds just a little rough, then...??
Come on...Give me a few weeks to become accustomed...SHEESH !!!
...so all of these other gadgets/contraptions/etc. are FOR SALE !!!
https://imgur.com/vvWDDzE
' sounds just a little rough, then...??
Come on...Give me a few weeks to become accustomed...SHEESH !!!
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Re: the French tuba thread
Oui-WEEEEeeeee! 
Thought Criminal
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Mack Brass Artiste
TU422L with TU25
1964 Conn 36k with CB Arnold Jacobs
Accent (By B&S) 952R with Bach12
The Fourth Estate is the Fifth Column
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Re: the French tuba thread
yeah...
That's a great French tuba-carrying car.
re: the (stuffy) excerpt...
Prokofiev (with a bit of touring mixed in) dwelt in Paris (perhaps fleeing the newly-formed Soviet Union) from the early 1920s into the early 1930's, did eventually return to the Soviet Union around 1935, but I believe that French tuba apologists would point out that a decade of French tuba influence would define that the Soviet-composed Ромео и Джульетта should probably be played with a French tuba.
That's a great French tuba-carrying car.
re: the (stuffy) excerpt...
Prokofiev (with a bit of touring mixed in) dwelt in Paris (perhaps fleeing the newly-formed Soviet Union) from the early 1920s into the early 1930's, did eventually return to the Soviet Union around 1935, but I believe that French tuba apologists would point out that a decade of French tuba influence would define that the Soviet-composed Ромео и Джульетта should probably be played with a French tuba.
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Re: the French tuba thread
I just went back with an edit and posted the excerpt.
Most will not get the yoke.
What if some are taking this crap seriously...?!?
This could EASILY become a footnote reference in someone's paper...
Most will not get the yoke.
What if some are taking this crap seriously...?!?
This could EASILY become a footnote reference in someone's paper...
Re: the French tuba thread
Nick
(This horn list more to remind me what I have than to brag)
1984 Conn 12J
1990s Kanstul 900-4B BBb
1924 Holton 122 Sousa
1972 Holton B300 Euph
If you see a Willson 2900, serial W2177, it's been missing for a long time. Help me bring it home.
(This horn list more to remind me what I have than to brag)
1984 Conn 12J
1990s Kanstul 900-4B BBb
1924 Holton 122 Sousa
1972 Holton B300 Euph
If you see a Willson 2900, serial W2177, it's been missing for a long time. Help me bring it home.
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Re: the French tuba thread
The hell I didn't !!!
You looked right past the expression marking ( жирный шрифт ).
Re: the French tuba thread
I had to get Google to translate. I guess you followed the marking.
Nick
(This horn list more to remind me what I have than to brag)
1984 Conn 12J
1990s Kanstul 900-4B BBb
1924 Holton 122 Sousa
1972 Holton B300 Euph
If you see a Willson 2900, serial W2177, it's been missing for a long time. Help me bring it home.
(This horn list more to remind me what I have than to brag)
1984 Conn 12J
1990s Kanstul 900-4B BBb
1924 Holton 122 Sousa
1972 Holton B300 Euph
If you see a Willson 2900, serial W2177, it's been missing for a long time. Help me bring it home.
Re: the French tuba thread
Also...I guess this is on the nose for the conversation.
Nick
(This horn list more to remind me what I have than to brag)
1984 Conn 12J
1990s Kanstul 900-4B BBb
1924 Holton 122 Sousa
1972 Holton B300 Euph
If you see a Willson 2900, serial W2177, it's been missing for a long time. Help me bring it home.
(This horn list more to remind me what I have than to brag)
1984 Conn 12J
1990s Kanstul 900-4B BBb
1924 Holton 122 Sousa
1972 Holton B300 Euph
If you see a Willson 2900, serial W2177, it's been missing for a long time. Help me bring it home.
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Re: the French tuba thread
' interesting how the Bolsheviks convinced Russian composers that it was a really good idea to relocate in Paris, eh? 
Now that the Bolsheviks have taken over my own country, I am continuously reminded of a couple of lines from a speech given by the first President for whom I myself bothered to vote.
Sadly, [1] he was primaried out four years earlier (when younger and more vigorous), or I would have voted for him then, and [2] - a month after being elected - he was shot, and - thus - not a particularly energetic/effective presidency.
Now that the Bolsheviks have taken over my own country, I am continuously reminded of a couple of lines from a speech given by the first President for whom I myself bothered to vote.
You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness...
Sadly, [1] he was primaried out four years earlier (when younger and more vigorous), or I would have voted for him then, and [2] - a month after being elected - he was shot, and - thus - not a particularly energetic/effective presidency.