[TPIN] Bass trombone (for tuba) in a brass quintet?

[Thomas Meacham]

Brian,

I believe the Victor Ewald quintets were originally written for (and 
played on) all conical-bore instruments--two cornets, E-flat flugel 
(?), baritone, and tuba.  I'd like to hear a performance or recording 
of these quintets on "original" instruments.

Tom Meacham
Anchorage, Alaska

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On Nov 11, 2006, at 6:15 AM, Brian Frederiksen wrote:

Interesting responses, not what I expected to hear but interesting.

First off, I'm one of the tuba-lurkers on the list. When I play a 
quintet, I bring a tuba and a smaller valve instrument - valve bone, 
bass, trumpet or euphonium. The bone player brings a tenor and bass 
bone. When it comes to most anything from the Baroque or earlier, we 
usually switch parts using a bass bone on the bottom and whatever horn 
I use playing the bone part. This seems to lighten up things helping 
out the trumpets. It also changes the sound characteristic so the 
quintet does not sound the same for everything.

Here's one for you. There are times that it works out better going with 
a conical sound where the trumpet parts are played on a cornet - what 
do you think of that one??


Brian Frederiksen
WindSong Press
PO Box 146
Gurnee, Illinois 60031
Phone 847 223-4586 Fax 847 223-4580
www.windsongpress.com
brianf at windsongpress.com

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