Just out of curiousity and maybe some personal benefit (
), Kievins, what are some things you picked up from that session and what was and is now your range? We have two other tubas in my school and they are not the most serious, so I really don't know how I stand. Just for an idea, I can usually get pedal Bb (we're talking a BBb tuba, here) and most of the notes between that and low Bb, and I can go right up to D middle line (bass clef of course), and that's where my tone starting becoming a little pinched, but I can get up to maybe Ab, and if I use a different embourchure altogether I can get from that Ab up to maybe F above the stave, but it's very .... not lovely.