Talk:Ophicleide (organ stop)

Misleading?
Some of the content of this article strikes me as a bit misleading. It's about the Ophicliede as a stop, but it doesn't address that "Ophicliede" is actually just the oldest name for a family of stops referred to as "Tubas." In the organ, the Tuba is the traditional English final chorus reed, and is (when properly built and voiced) characterized by a very smooth but powerful tone. It's true that Ophicliede is a more common name in the pedal, but it is really just a Tuba in the pedal, much as a german baroque Posaune (or Trombone, in English) is about the same as a german baroque Trompete, just pitched an octave lower and in the pedal. It might be wiser to rewrite this article about Tubas and have Ophicliede as a subset, instead of singling out a less common name for a fairly common stop (it's actually more common than the article would indicate, often appears in organs with as few as 40 ranks, or even less). 164.76.18.149 (talk) 13:54, 3 February 2012 (UTC)