Klarinet Archive - Posting 000067.txt from 2010/03

From: "Benjamin Maas" <benmaas@-----.com>
Subj: RE: [kl] Name that instrument
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:33:09 -0400

Looks like a Wagner Tuba to me... If you ever see them in Bruckner
symphonies or on the scoring stages of LA- it is always the horn section
that plays them.

Hearing a section of 4 of them really is a very cool sound. I don't know
how to describe it other than the fact it is similar to a horn but with
something extra in the sound to give it more balls. As a section, they
blend very similarly to a horn section, but a section of Wagner tubas has a
very different sound than a section of horns.

--Ben

Benjamin Maas
Fifth Circle Audio
Long Beach, CA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan Leeson
> Subject: [kl] Name that instrument
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY9baGZRil0&feature=related
>
> In this charming rendition of a wind quintet from the Berlin Phil, you
> will
> get a close up of the players about 1/3 of the way through.
>
> What is that instrument disguising himself with a French horn part? Is
> that
> Wagner tuba? I thought they were bigger.
>
> Dan Leeson
>