fractional tubas

[bloke]

First of all, I think we need to reduce the fraction of 6/4 to 3/2, so the number more looks like 3.2 beer, (which is the type of beer that trumpet players probably drink). This way, 6/4 players can probably blend with the section better.

3/4 should probably be occasionally expressed at 6/8, just to make sure that people who play those can shift back and forth smoothly... particularly if they're made in America, because of Leonard Bernstein and all that.

...and it's pretty dumb to not call 4/4 tubas 1 tubas.
After all, each one of them is 1 tuba.

...It's just that no one has ever really applied logic to this before, and sat down and really thought this out like I have.

[the elephant]

I play a 1.500 tuba, or, as the cool kids in the shop call it, a "fifteen-hunnert-thou" tuba.

[je]

First of all, I think we need to reduce the fraction of 6/4 to 3/2, so the number more looks like 3.2 beer, (which is the type of beer that trumpet players probably drink). This way, 6/4 players can probably blend with the section better.

No, those are threebas. And euphoniums are onebas.

[bloke]

I believe that's also known as the 6000/4 Quadrastroke (aka C-flat tube) correct?

https://musicasatiendas.com/es/tubas-en ... inbao.html

Whoops , I'm trying to read this crap off my phone without my glasses, didn't see the decimal point and I'm spreading disinformation. I'm so glad this isn't on Facebook.
The CIA would have instructed them to give me some naughty points.

Just for what it's worth, my new mouthpiece works on the 1.500 tubas.

@Sousaswag, I assume you are archiving this remarkably consequential thread on Instagram...
...wait...
Consequential was one of the Aztec rulers, wasn't he?

[gocsick]

Well a Bach medium bore trumpet is 0,453", ML 0.459" and a Bach large bore trumpet is only 0.462"

So that makes the ML trumpet a 1.013 trumpet and the L a 1.020 trumpet.

[bloke]

Well a Bach medium bore trumpet is 0,453", ML 0.459" and a Bach large bore trumpet is only 0.462"

So that makes the ML trumpet a 1.013 trumpet and the L a 1.020 trumpet.

The Science !!!

All you need now is a white lab coat and a big fat salary.

[MiBrassFS]

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[tadawson]

I'm holding out for a 27/64 . . .

Or, with all the nonsense about "metric is better" why aren't European tubas called 1.0, 1.5, etc?

[bloke]

I'm holding out for a 27/64 . . .
[media][/media]

When you eventually rebuild your car's engine, that's likely not a socket you're going to find under the hood.

[MikeS]

There is no need for all this higher mathematics stuff. I suggest we simply adopt a measurement system that has worked well in an area already familiar to many tuba players.

[bloke]

There is no need for all this higher mathematics stuff. I suggest we simply adopt a measurement system that has worked well in an area already familiar to many tuba players.

Stop whining.

[tadawson]

I'm holding out for a 27/64 . . .
[media][/media]

When you eventually rebuild your car's engine, that's likely not a socket you're going to find under the hood.

I would not expect to find it under the hood, but rather my toolbox . . . . maybe . . . :-) :-)

And either are e-torx, but some idiot at some brand will sneak one in . . . (*cough* Mercedes *cough*) . . . had to get more oddball tools when my daughter had one than ever before . . . )

[iiipopes]

Hmmm. I wonder which old testament King would best describe my Jupiter JTU1110? Better yet, I can see the Nebuchadnezzar describing the double contra Harvard tuba. https://tubapastor.blogspot.com/2019/06 ... -tuba.html