I felt that the timbre was close to that of her recording, so I wondered if the recording microphones were placed higher than a seated listener position.Īnyway, the point I was trying to make was that it's very often not simply a matter of reproducing what the microphone(s) 'heard,' including ambiance cues.

In contrast, most solo violin performances that I’ve attended have been where I sat lower than the level of the violinist. I sat in a different place for each one, the last time sitting on steps less than estimated twenty feet away about 45 degrees between the scroll and F holes. Theberlinertuba on ca.The other weekend, I had the opportunity to hear Jennifer Koh play several of the Bach sonatas and partitas for solo violin in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum courtyard. Theberlinertuba on ca.1890s custom Schuster Bastu… Theberlinertuba on ca.1950s VEB/B&S F Tuba… Robert Coulter on The Post WW2 Conn Helleberg Tu… Vilhelm Schmidt Basstuba in FĬhristopher Hite on The Post WW2 Conn Helleberg Tu… ca.1870s – I.K.Gottfried Bastuba in F – Kövenhagn.ca.1890s custom Schuster Bastuba in F (Swedish model).The Post WW2 Conn Helleberg Tuba Mouthpiece (and friends).In fact until the B&S Symphone arrived in the mid 60s and started the oversize F-Tuba arms race, this HB would have been considered a large F-Tuba! When you set it next to a modern Melton or Miraphone, it feels like a large euphonium, although I think its almost the same size as a Miraphone Firebird. Austrians with their Wiener designs and many of the northern Italian brass makers offered compact F-Tubas similar to the HB. The orchestra 4/4 CC and F tubas seem very much like shortened versions of their sister models…Īgain, I don’t know the origin of Hirsbrunner’s F-Tuba designs, but central and south europeans tended to play on smaller equipment although that has since changed. My theory is that most of Hirsbrunner’s orders were for the Swiss military bands consisting of BBb and Eb tubas. The Eb tubas also share many of the same components. Both could be had with piston valves as well, models 388 and 389 respectively. Hirsbrunner had two F-Tuba designs, this smaller 288 and a larger 289 model. One can manipulate most slides with little fuss.

Hirsbrunner tuba 392 b