Wessex had/has the smaller Bombino and the larger Champion. 3 + 1 Eb compensators. I had a Bombino, and it was really small. Hard to do much with it. The Champion was more widely accepted as a small brass band style horn. For a couple of years after they were initially released, they were sold out ...

Anybody want to move to western Virginia to play tuba in a quintet? I guarantee we'll be enthusiastic about seeing you. I I would in a heartbeat. I'm a tuba player looking for a quintet. I have a long-term quintet but play the bone part on a euph, which I suck at. I tried to move to VA (C'ville) a ...

This is a great opportunity to do 3 things I like to do : hijack tuba threads, complain about bass trombone and talk about what a bad tuba player I am. I started a brass quintet specifically so I could play tenor trombone. I play bass bone in all the groups I'm in right now because we can't find any ...

There are two sizes of tuba rims -- narrow, and too wide? No, well, yeah, I mean those two sizes exist, but your job as a pilgrim is to find the thing in between those extremes that works for you. If your flexibility is bad, it could be that your rim is too wide. If your endurance is bad, it could ...

What I get out of the trombone vs. tuba story above, is the tuba mouthpiece sits far enough out on the face profile, that the rim is an issue mostly only at its inside edge. I have sort of wondered why anyone bothers to collect data on rim width, like for mouthpiece charts etc., and maybe it's ...

Again, my commentary is only from the trombone perspective, and based on my minimal tuba experience, I'm not sure if there's any relevance, except maybe to euphonium. I went through a revelation about trombone mouthpieces about 10 years ago. I used to just think that I needed something bigger than a ...

I sold an Olds P24G bass trombone that I wish I had kept. You can't find those things just lying around. That horn just kind of fit my personality. Somebody told me they preferred the sound of this other horn I had, so I sold the Olds. Should have just told them to keep their opinions to themselves ...

"Unironically", as the kids say these days, there was someone who developed what he called a Db "baritone" trombone. It was really somewhere between alto and tenor, so I'm not sure what voice that would work out to, but I'm pretty sure it's not baritone. If I remember right, it may have been more ...

I don't know if you play any alto trombone, but would it apply to that? I played alto for a short time, and realized that (like tuba) it was going to take too much time (and money) to get good enough at it to be of any use to anyone. If it doesn't have a different sound than a tenor, there's no use ...

I have a trombone player friend who makes the same claim about "large rim fitting his face". I tend to wonder if (rather) it's "I'm accustomed to a large rim"... (By "large", their rim{s} seem to allow for a great deal of exposed vibrating lips (in the wide cups). They also seem to be attracted to ...

At least with tubas... (having all these different rim CONTOURS and with all these various contours available in various EMBOUCHURE OPENINGS (ie. how much of the lips are exposed) in these little plastic draws here (all: threaded/interchangeable)... ...both the rim contour and the amount of lips ...

We're swinging wide of the topic here, but there are a lot of 607/8/9 fans. I've never played one, and although I have two nice Kings (5b and 3b), I'm not a huge King fan. I love the 78h, but it can get scary bright when pushed. The 79h with the extra valve weight tames that tendency. The Getzen ...

... I still don't understand why trombone players when Bolero shows up think they need to be heroes and play those on 547 bore instruments instead of 500 or 508/509. ... ...The 547 bore trombone thing is almost like the players who try to play everything they possibly can on 6/4 size tubas. ie. If ...

With upper B-flats and C's more easily reachable with trombones (certainly with smaller bore trombones and even alto trombones), I view trombone quartets as easier to voice. Yes, I agree it happens less frequently with bones, but with the fascination for writing bass bones so low (because I can ...

Having conducted tuba ensembles since 1982, I consider myself somewhat of an expert in this regard. Many (MANY!) arrangements just are not voice very well. MOST of them can be fixed if you put the 3rd part up an octave, played by lead euphonium, play the 'first' part by euph 2, and the 2nd euph ...

Guess I misread something. MW 751. Interesting.

... oh yeah: His euphonium is fully chromatic...but those sorts of parts don't seem to feature any C's or B's. :teeth: bloke "I played a really loud euphonium low C, yesterday. (Easter Hymn chart pictured in another thread)" Which brings up another topic which is not really on the topic of the ...

I am driving down to Richmond, VA and back between March 28-30 and can be available to meet up for this if you are around the East Coast -- NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC. Oooof. I was kind of interested in this, and I just sold my BBb and one bass bone, so I've got the funds... And I live in Virginia ...

I am driving down to Richmond, VA and back between March 28-30 and can be available to meet up for this if you are around the East Coast -- NYC, Philly, Baltimore, DC. Oooof. I was kind of interested in this, and I just sold my BBb and one bass bone, so I've got the funds... And I live in Virginia ...

I stopped playing in orchestras because there just isn't enough action. I do love the music, but I like to play more often, and it would be nice to get the line now and then. I don't even play in bands because there are just too many people playing the same thing. Most of my playing is tbone quartet ...