Sound Ranges of the Tuba

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Hi Kevin Smith here again, TubaLove, and I'm going to talk to you now about the range of the instrument. And when I say range, I'm just talking about basically how low or how high the instrument can go. Tubas have still I think in a lot people a kind of a stereotype of just the oompa oompa low sounding kind of thing. But they actually can convey a lot of different pitches. And I'm just going to sort of run the gammit for you a little bit. And as I go higher too, you know, I may start to approach registers that I'm not even really comfortable with all the time. But at any rate, I'll just, I'll show you. This is, this C here is if you were on a piano, that C is one what's called octave down. If you know a piano at all from what's called the middle C on a piano, exactly in the middle of the instrument. If you go down to the next C, that's the C that you're hearing. But. That down there is a petal C, what they called them the old petals on the organs. That's getting down there. Then, if I go up a little bit we'll see how far I go. And that's the C above the middle C, excuse me, that is the middle C. I tried to squeak it out. It's not as good as I could ever do. Almost the C, the octave above the middle C. I can't play that with any real consistency, if I'm out just you know messing around and just I could pop it out here and there. But at any rate, the tuba has a much wider range than a lot of people think it does.

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