Low B flat, the lowest tone in music that is not just a grunt, is sounded in orchestras by the contrabassoon or the contrabass tuba. Beethoven used the big woodwind in his Ninth Symphony. Haydn in his ...
Gary Ofenloch didn’t get through 36 years of playing the tuba for the Utah Symphony without learning a few tricks. For example, he keeps his main instrument, a contrabass tuba, at his home studio in ...