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Re: Wide slots
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:01 pm
by Mary Ann
Somebody explain small bore big body tuba; I can get the small bore, but a BBb is a BBb length wise and so forth, so what does "big body" mean?
Re: Wide slots
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 8:46 pm
by LeMark
big wide bell expansion, 19.5 inch bell on a bore size of around .668
that's a monster conical flare
Re: Wide slots
Posted: Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:10 pm
by jtm
That looks like euphonium tubing around the valves! Almost.
Re: Wide slots
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:56 am
by Mary Ann
Can anybody say "French horn?" Talk about big bell on small bore, that is it. However, it seems that the science of tapers has pretty well fixed slotting problems on horns. Thank Walter Lawson for that.
Re: Wide slots
Posted: Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:58 am
by donn
Mary Ann wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 11:56 am
Can anybody say "French horn?"
Does anyone dare?
I guess it's funny that it's the one sort of conical brass that has a specific, distinct form. A casual observer would never notice any difference between any one of them, right? But the normally-known-as conical brass - flugelhorn down to contrabass tuba - the field is so wide open that we define different instruments in the same length (Bb tenor vs. bass.)