Re: Fun Tunes (Helicon)- I Found a Million Dollar Baby
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:41 am
by The Big Ben
Doc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:24 am
Having some fun on the helicon with a classic standard. I hope you will play tunes and songs by ear for fun and improved musicianship!
Sounds good. That helicon has a nice tone. Does the 4th valve reeeeelly help getting down low on the Eb?
Re: Fun Tunes (Helicon)- I Found a Million Dollar Baby
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:01 pm
by Three Valves
Now those is finger buttons!!
Re: Fun Tunes (Helicon)- I Found a Million Dollar Baby
Doc wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 7:24 am
Having some fun on the helicon with a classic standard. I hope you will play tunes and songs by ear for fun and improved musicianship!
Sounds good. That helicon has a nice tone. Does the 4th valve reeeeelly help getting down low on the Eb?
It is the same fourth valve set up as on any other non-compensated four valve tuba. The pedal Eb is open/no valves.
Re: Fun Tunes (Helicon)- I Found a Million Dollar Baby
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:18 pm
by Doc
Three Valves wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:01 pm
Now those is finger buttons!!
With those buttons, it is Mardi Gras every day.
I will be using it in a second line procession in a wedding next month. Apropos, methinks.
Re: Fun Tunes (Helicon)- I Found a Million Dollar Baby
Posted: Fri Oct 08, 2021 4:24 pm
by Doc
My good friend, band mate, and long time piano/sax man (retired Navy bandsman) Don Carroll surprised me with this spruced up version:
