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dtc91
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Am I weird by preferring to read treble clef?
Are you even allowed to use treble clef in the US? because over this direction (Scotland to be specific) the biggest exam board allow you to use treble or bass in a variety of keys.
I might have been a bass clef man had I started on the tuba, but I started on the tenor horn, which is definately TC.
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Richardrichard9
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It is very rare to see tuba music here in the US in the treble clef. Sure there is plenty of baritone/euphonium music in the treble clef, but not tuba.
If you are looking to perform in the US, or in an orchestra most places in the world, you are going to get a bass clef sheet of music.
It might be easier to learn and know how to play in both clefs.
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dtc91
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What usually happens with the band I'm in I either get given a treble clef Eb bass part (treble clef), or a C tuba part in bass clef (the norm I believe) this suits me fine as on an Eb tuba I can read the bass clef as treble and add 3 sharps (and adjust accidentals accordingly) and it pitches right.
I have no intention of emigrating so I'm OK in that respect.
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Richardrichard9
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Ok, well I think Orchestras in Scotland play tuba in the bass clef, band in the UK area are usually in Treble.
The problem I have with treble is that normally tuba music is written in concert pitch, but that isn't the case in the treble clef.
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zoom
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G'day from another who started on Eb treble clef. Then bass clef. Then a Bb instrument. Then backwards and forwards – Eb and Bb, both clefs, adding sharps, reading up a fourth, down the octave from string bass parts ... the whole shebang! (And then a C horn ... aaaargh!!) The good news is: you get pretty used to it, and possibly have an edge over players who've never had to transpose anything. I probably only had to knuckle down (bass-clef-wise) for a brass ensemble that used to play a lot of wild 'n' crazy modern stuff.
The weirdest thing was in high school: one of the teachers insisted on writing tuba parts (for my then Eb tuba) in some crazy Eb bass clef transposition – ie: I'd be given a written C, bass clef, two ledger lines down, and be expected to blurt out my (sounding) Eb, one ledger line down. This was in our scruffy orchestra – always in "string" keys like D, A and E – with the bottom end held together by a couple of forlorn cellists and myself. My "just sounding pitch; I'll sort it out" pleas fell on deaf ears. Strange! </rant> 
(Of course, brass band trombonists absolutely have the edge when it comes to tenor clef. Add two sharps, etc.)
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dtc91
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Richard, Scotland is part of the UK 
I now consider myself lucky Zoom! Never had to go through the motions like that before - the worse I've had was Eb in BC.
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