The Cellar - What's making you happy today?

There's a local trad jazz band that I'll prolly tag along with ... Sousa wrote some great bass lines for his marches but this instrument is not allowed in the brass band line up so the Sousa'll have to wait!
And next August I'm going to play a duet ("Land of the lonesome pine" with another sousaphone player - only he doesn't know it yet!:D

Undertoad

08-31-2009 03:14 PM

Awesome. What's the lowest note it can play?

limey

08-31-2009 03:34 PM

It's pitched in Eb but with practice, in theory, the valves'll take it down to an A. That'd be the lowest A on the piano.:eek:

Oh and it makes a LOVELY sound! Good, rich and velvety!

dar512

08-31-2009 04:21 PM

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Originally Posted by limey (Post 591594)

It's pitched in Eb but with practice, in theory, the valves'll take it down to an A. That'd be the lowest A on the piano.:eek:

Oh and it makes a LOVELY sound! Good, rich and velvety!

That'd be an A0 - 27.5Hz. Impressive.

limey

08-31-2009 04:29 PM

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Originally Posted by dar512 (Post 591600)

That'd be an A0 - 27.5Hz. Impressive.

Realistically I'll only ever make it to the Eb above that, and that'd just be for special occasions!

ZenGum

08-31-2009 07:46 PM

Wow, that is approaching the bottom range of human hearing.

dar512

08-31-2009 10:02 PM