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available
in kit form, and includes the magnet and dent balls of varying
sizes, at $395.00. Call The Tuba Exchange at 1-800-869-8822
to place your order.
ITEC
Sponsorship
As an
ITEC sponsor, we displayed over 60 different instruments,
including a number from our historic collection. We also
had the privilege of providing the cash prize to the first
place winners of the ITEC tuba quartet competition. Congratulations
to the winners, the University of Alabama Tuba Quartet!
We heard
many fine concerts and clinics at ITEC, including a recital
we sponsored given by the versatile and talented Jim Akins,
who played beautifully.
I would
like to take this opportunity to thank Dr. Dennis AsKew,
Professor of Tuba and Euphonium at UNCG, and his ITEC staff,
for doing such an outstanding job of organizing this highly
successful conference.
It was
also our great pleasure to have as our guest at ITEC Tuba
Prof. Sande MacMorran of The University of Tennessee.
Over the years, Sande has generously provided us with valuable
input in areas of product design and
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instrument
evaluation. Sande’s contirbutions and feedback are
always welcome. We feel he is someone whose many fine attributes
personify all that a tuba player should aspire to be.
Ophicleide
Clinic
One
of the most interesting and unusual clinic/recitals of the
conference was one by Dr. David Loucky, faculty member
of Middle Tennessee State University. Dr. Loucky performed
on and discussed the role of the ophicleide as used in the
orchestra. His clinic was titled "The Ophicleide: Voice
from the Grave." The ophicliede is a chromatic bass
brass instrument developed before the tuba became the standard
brass bass in the orchestra. The ophicleide has keys like
a saxophone to change the length of its air column, instead
of valves. It looks a bit like a metal bassoon. Both Mendelssohn
and Berlioz wrote for it, as well as many other composers
of the early to mid-nineteenth century.
The
tone quality produced by the ophicleide is usually coarse
and the intonation is difficult to control in certain registers,
but Dr. Loucky made this normally unwieldy instrument sing
beautifully with no hint of intonation problems. Part of
his clinic was devoted to the direct comparison of orchestral
parts
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