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Re: Elnlighten me

Author: Chris P
Date: 2024-06-11 00:51

In UK brass bands, all the players play music in treble clef (and transposed accordingly) so they can change to a different instrument and still use the same fingerings for the written notes. From Eb soprano cornet right down to BBb bass, they all read treble clef parts.

That then causes a problem for dyed-in-the-wool brass band trombone, euphonium and tuba players when they do concert band, Big Band or orchestral playing where those instruments are normally at Concert Pitch and in bass clef. Sometimes concert band parts will have both treble clef Bb and treble clef Eb parts along with the usual Concert Pitch bass clef parts and sometimes even bass clef Bb and bass clef Eb parts for some European countries that use that system with their low brass.

At least an EEb tuba player brought up reading treble clef Eb parts can pretty much sight read Concert Pitch bass clef parts as the notes are in the same place, only they have to switch the clef and add three sharps/take three flats from the key signature and adjust any accidentals accordingly. Same applies to bari sax players who've been given a bassoon, trombone or tuba part to read from if there's no bari sax part or they're covering for a missing bassoon/trombone/tuba player.

Former oboe finisher
Howarth of London
1998 - 2010
The opinions I express are my own.

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