New Year, new tubist
UncategorizedMeet Chloe Higgins.
She has just won the principal tuba seat in the West Australian Symphony Orchestra, in Perth.
Blow the winds, southerly.
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I had always wanted to play the tuba, because of the sounds. But my family was against it, because the neighbours expected a baby.
Sally
For tuba lovers (ang haters):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQzABYlPcGc
Congrats to her, but why does this merit an entire post devoted to her? Are we going to do one for all newly appointed orchestra musicians?
It is a relative rarity for a female to win a tuba gig. Philly was a pretty big deal; this seems to be a good thing, too.
Congrats to Chloe!
You are such an arrogant little viola player.
Does a tubist play a tube? Equally, can we stop calling woodwind instruments horns?
The piping is a tube. It’s cylindrical as it goes through the valve casing. After the valve casing, the ‘tubes’ become conical in shape.