What is Wagner Tuba?

Despite its name, the Tuba Wagner is not actually a tube. It is a brass tool, but it is a member of the Horn group, one of the four main categories into which brass is usually divided, the others are tubas, trumpets and thrombones. It comes in two sizes: BB (tenor) and f (bass).

Wagner Tuba, however, is, as the name suggests, the spiritual German composer Richard Wagner, who makes him a tool of the same name as a somaphone - created by the American bandmaster and composer John Philip Sous and Saxophone, invented by the Belgian tool manufacturer Adolphe Sax. Wagner Tuba was invented because during writing der rhinegold , at the beginning of the age of 20, Wagner conceived a sound that no existing tool could make and had them produced for it.

Other composers also started to use them. It is reported that Anton Bruckner called it in his 7th Symphony, Richard Strauss used it in don quixote , Igor Stravinsky used it in both Firebird and Le Sacre du Printps and Maurice Ravel's Orchestral Arrangement of images at the exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky also includes Wagner Tuba. Today, some of these pieces can be carried out with Euphonie, which will take part of Wagner Tuba.

Tuba Wagner has four rotary valves. In BB Wagner, one of the valves reduces the pitch by the fourth. The same vale reduces the playground by one fifth on the tool that was keyed in F. Music for both types of Tuba Wagner is transposed and BB Tubas is the main size lower than written playground, while F Tubas sounds perfect fifth below.

Hornists are generally used to play Tuba Wagner, which uses the mouthpiece of the corner and has valves operated by the left hand, such as the French horn, not the right hand, like the other tubas. Unlike the corner, the right hand has never used a tube Wagner, but can be used to mute, largely to reduce the volume. It is worth mentioning thatAchieving accurate intonation is more difficult for Wagner tuba than in the French corner.