He made an effort to have Mr. Hope-Jones voice one of his Tibias and Smooth Tubas for the Yale organ; and though his effort was not successful, leading features of the Worcester instrument were frankly imitated and generously acknowledged.
Solo and Pedal Tubas have double tongues and are voiced on 20 inches of wind.
The introduction of a complete group of tubas was certainly an entirely new idea.
The bass-tubas also are frequently too light and small.
The tubas appear entirely alone, as do also the four trumpets in combination with the four trombones.
Those which give out the fundamental tone and harmonics up to the eighth, such as the tubas and ophicleide.
The sound tube of all bugles, saxhorns, and tubas is conical, with a much wider curve than the horn.
Finally, the contrabass tubas in B flat, and in C, for Wagner, have immense depth and potentiality of tone; all these instruments are capable of pianissimo.
But playing with wide bore tubas and their kindred is not advantageous to this noble instrument.
Let the tubas blare again, the Roman tubas which echo through the world!
To mention tubas and trombones before the horns is very much like putting the cart before the horse, but I have reserved the horns for the last of the brass on account of the great tribute which Richard Strauss has paid them.
The radical difference between the saxhorns and the tubas (including the bombardon) is that the latter have a sufficiently wide conical bore to allow of the production of fundamental sounds in a rich, full quality of immense power.
The bombardon is used in the military bands of Austria, but in those of Germany it has been superseded by a bass tuba differing slightly in form and construction from the bombardons and bass tubas used in England, France, Belgium and Austria.
Stopped notes can only be employed on trumpets, cornets and horns; the shape of trombones and tubas prevents the hand from being inserted into the bell.
Footnote 8: Of late years sometimes two tubas are employed, by Glazounov for instance in his Finnish Fantasia.
Though mutes are applied indiscriminately to all brass instruments in the orchestra, tubas rarely possess them.
Directly afterwards the tubas gave the signal through the streets of the camp for a general inspection of the troops, in marching equipments, with mantles.
Saturninus would have tried to soothe the excited man, but a loud signal from the tubassummoned both leaders to the wall.
Tubas is always liable to incursions from the eastern Bedaween, and always subject to the local wars of the Tokan and 'Abdu'l Hadi factions.
This is specially noticeable in that part of the prelude called "The Trumpet of the Last Judgment," in which the trombones, trumpets, and tubas are employed with extraordinary effect.
Suddenly from either angle of the stage or hall, in addition to the principal orchestra in front, four smaller bands of trombones, trumpets, and tubas crash in with overwhelming power in the announcement of the terrors of the day of judgment.
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