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How much do you know about tuba sound: CSO's tuba

Posted by Tadlo (A) on December 19, 2016 at 10:42:18

How much do you know about tuba sound? I went to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra concert last Saturday. After the concert there was a reception for donors, which featured some players from the orchestra answering questions from the guests. One of them was Gene Pokorny, the principle tuba player and holder of the Arnold Jacobs endowed chair. He brought the tuba to show us and told the story about the tuba and how the CSO acquired it. I found the story very interesting and thought it might be interesting to inmates.

In the 1930's Leopold Stokowski, then music director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, wanted a tuba that sounded like an organ. He contracted a company to make two such instruments. The two were built, but it turned out the Philadelphia tuba player at the time was too obese to comfortably hold and play the tubas, so he sold them for $250 to the CSO tuba player, Arnold Jacobs. At some point the orchestra acquired the tubas.It turns out that the sound of these tubas is unparalleled, and are now considered priceless. Numerous brass manufacturers have studied and analyzed the tubas but have been unable to duplicate the sound. Somehow duplicating the measurements and materials did not result in completely duplicating the sound quality! Apparently no one can figure out why these tubas are so special.

Edits: 12/19/16

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