Yes. The amazing thing was they worked at all. My mum has Elgar’s The Dream of Gerontius on 78’s, and had never noticed that the cello and double bass parts were all played on tubas. You had to fit the entire orchestra onto a single small room with a giant horn that went to the recording machine, and do the lot in one take. This meant they sat in racks, three deep vertically, and you could replace several double basses with one tuba, so they did.
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