![]() When I discovered the Holton could be tuned to G, I found it helped for an arrangement of "On the Sunny Side of the Street" by John Clayton. I have not had an opportunity to play a dependent bass. College to present.Īll horns had/have standard rotary valves. This bass has two 2nd valve slides and is the only bass I've actually owned. College.īesson 943GS, independent tuning in Bb/F/Gb/D OR Bb/F/G/Eb. Yamaha YB元21, single valve in F with E pull. Holton 181, independent tuning in Bb/F/Gb/D with extension in, or Bb/F/G/Eb with extension out. ![]() 9th grade.Ĭonn 71H, single valve in F with E pull. Jupiter 740, independent tuning in Bb/F/Gb/D. I've played on the following basses in my career, including when: I do have an inline Bb/F/Gb/D, this is a thayer section, so not a great candidate for my monstrosity above, but I have been tempted to make it a dependent. So, at the end of all of this, I play mostly on a single or a Bb/F/D dependent. One of these days I'll put one together and make a bunch of different tuning slides so both valves can be all of the above. I really want to try Bb/bE/G/D some day, but I need another valve section to make that happen. Sure, you may have a B with a bE tuning, but is it in a place where you can have decent slide technique and ability to move it up and down to fit the chord? Put it in a few inches by tuning to D (or D-ish if you go Bollinger). The main reason you have the second valve at all is C and B and the D tuning makes that better and more solid. BUT, and it is a big BUT, D > Eb for stuff below the staff. That D in the staff is great to have! It really optimizes the length of the slide for things in the staff. ![]() I used to care more about that, but the amount of difference isn't enough for anybody that has heard me play to care about. That said, the difference isn't much with decent valves. I've preferred the dependent over the independent every time. Sometimes with physically the same valves. That said, I've played a lot of horns as a single, dependent, and independent. That is, mathematically at least, probably a good thing. plenty of other posts from better players than me there. Exactly where is your handslide and exactly where do you like to tune an F, for example. I'd choose an instrument that I liked playing rather than one with a specific tuning first, if you get what I mean.There are increasingly micro versions of tuning we can discuss. You'll have to spend serious time learning to read in F anyway, so any perceived difficulty with a new valve tuning is wrapped up in that struggle. ![]() ![]() I'm not sure my instrument would even be playable that way (and it was in that configuration before!). Older German tuning is F/Eb/BBb/AA, which is mostly just worse. The big tradeoff is probably G and Gb at the bottom of the bass staff, which are pretty far out, as well as thee transition from low B to Bb- same as a normal bass trombone, basically 5 positions. The low notes G and Gb are also farther in, as well as more flexibility with 4th position notes with the D valve. All of those positions are the same, i.e. With open and 1st valve, it's like an Bb/F/D bass trombone with 1 valve down (F) and 2 valves down (D). The advantage of this is that the instrument presents like a bass trombone in another way. The "other" tuning (there are more, of course) is German tuning, usually tuned now as F/D/BBb/AAb. ![]()
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