BB♭ Tuba
E♭2 on the BB♭ Tuba
Written E♭2. Tap the diagram to hear it.
E♭2
3rd partialBeginner note
Third partial with valve 1 alone. Nothing competes with it, so E♭2 is a clean check for the first valve slide.
About this note
Third partial with valve 1 alone. Nothing competes with it, so E♭2 is a clean check for the first valve slide.
- Primary fingering: Valves 1
- Written pitch: E♭2
- Sounding frequency: 77.78 Hz
- Harmonic partial: 3 — the valves set the tube length, but your air and embouchure select the partial.
BB♭ Tuba fingering data last updated . Every diagram here, in the printable PDF and in the chart image comes from one dataset, so the paper and the screen cannot disagree.