Talk:Concert band

message: I've never heard of this Tuba/String Bass thing where the bass plays the uppor octave. It makes no sense since many of these same editions have a separate string bass part. Please give a source or I'll revert it.Justin Tokke (talk) 02:49, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No one at all? If I don't see a response by tomorrow, I'll be inclined to remove it. Justin Tokke (talk) 00:44, 20 August 2008 (UTC)

text: Removed the nonsense.  The top octave of the 2 is for the double bass if there isn't a separate part. P0mbal (talk) 17:00, 22 November 2010 (UTC)

text: I have to agree with Justin Tokke. This practice seems rather unusual to me, since it is commonplace to play the upper part as written on tuba. 80.187.106.136 (talk) 00:54, 2 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title: Tuba Annotations

message: This article is so focused on America that I am still not sure if the concert band is the same as similar orchestras in continental Europe (orchestre d'harmonie / harmonieorkest / Harmonieorchester) or that is a different kind. Bever (talk) 00:37, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Because of the large amounts of unreferenced material (which I just removed), the article appears to have been written by just one or two editors, no doubt Americans with little experience of wind bands outside their own country. (Though Japan is mentioned once or twice.) It seems less overwhelmingly American now, but still needs more (properly referenced) information on continental Europe, at least. I would also like to see more (anything at all) on bands in South America, Australia, and other parts of the world where wind bands exist.—Jerome Kohl (talk) 01:12, 1 March 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: For a start, I have never heard the term used in the U.K. Brass bands is our standard term, which would include most of the examples on this page. Macdonald-ross (talk) 08:03, 26 April 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  More international please 

message: " In Bavarian wind music no piccolo is called for, as the E♭ clarinet substitutes for it."
Bavarian concert bands do not do that. Piccolo flutes play an octave above the Eb clarinet anyway. Bavarian, alpine and Bohemian "polka wind ensembles" that only play traditional style music are not really concert bands and do not make use of any woodwinds except for sometimes a few clarinets. They do not have a full woodwind section and they often are very small (~6-20 players) and thus not even real concert bands. Their basic Instrumentation is for example 2 flugelhorns,2 baritone horns, Tuba, and perhaps some trombones or bass trumpets, clarinets, and a single trumpet. That does not make a concert band.
"Many tuba parts are written in octaves. In that case the higher notes are to be played by the double bass, sounding an octave lower and therefore at the same pitch as the lower part."
That's quite bizarre. One does not need any evidence to see that this is not true. A single glimpse at any contemporary intermediate grade band piece will show that you can not do that, parts frequently change between unisono and octave doubling and they often remain unisono beyond the low end of the double bass. The high octaves are also to be played by the tuba, not absolutely necessarily in any circumstances, but in more advanced literature they are to be played for sure.
2A01:598:A80F:83DA:1:2:F944:F562 (talk) 23:11, 11 August 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Footnotes on Piccolo and Tubas