Anime orchestra concerts are similar. I recently played on a concert with the music of One Piece, with the show playing behind us as we played the tracks. The concert was in a massive theater as part of the annual anime convention here. It was packed, and there was indeed rock concert-level roaring ...

Being someone who uses a 72H every day, I'd love to try that horn!

Tenon/receiver swapping is standard procedure in frankenboning. My tech is currently taking 4 King trombones of mine and making them modular, which includes putting them all on the same tenon/receiver. Since the King male connector differs from other makes in that the inside slide tube doesn't go ...

Tenon/receiver swapping is standard procedure in frankenboning. My tech is currently taking 4 King trombones of mine and making them modular, which includes putting them all on the same tenon/receiver.

arpthark wrote: ↑Fri Nov 08, 2024 4:49 pmWho made em?

I've heard that they were made for Bach on the cheap by an Italian maker. No idea how I would get confirmation of that, though.

Indiana University has one of these.

It is the single worst brass instrument I have ever played. Be warned

Considering you also have the big euph, I think the 321 is the clear winner. I personally don't find the 321 and the 2280 that different playability-wise, but I prefer the 321 overall and it definitely has a smaller/lighter sound. I do think the large shank conversion is worth it. To me the smaller ...

I would stretch out much farther and state (ie. beyond "suggest") that the overwhelming majority of "classical" music videos we see today were recorded... - audio first, HEAVILY edited - video second, and played along with the recorded audio, but (of course) only the pre-recorded/heavily-edited ...

I did a little more digging and found an original Olds catalog and was surprised that Olds offered both a mellophone bugle and a French horn bugle. Here is the ad below. Wonder why they did that? I do agree with the ad copy that it sounds very much horn-like. The French horn bugle was first, and ...

Well, the 1220 alto cornet was actually a good instrument.

The 383 frumpet, on the other hand...

I practice them often, even on instruments you don't need them on (e.g. a 2-valve bass trombone). I find that locking the false tones in helps me lock in the real notes as well, and use my air better. Back when I only had a single-valve bass trombone, I used the low C and B trigger false tones on ...

Handslides always choke back down to the inner of the lower. Even with dual bore slides, the there’s always a choke point returning to the lower inner. Just a thought. Yes, just as a larger valve set in the same bore as the outer slide inner diameter chokes back to the lower inner when the air l ...

Some might ask why I didn't use larger bore rotors, but those are still located in the portion of the instrument which would have otherwise been in the playing slide, so I didn't feel as though I should make the instrument any larger there. But, consider that when you move the trombone handslide ...

Mike Johnson out of the UK makes cimbassi in a bunch of keys including tenor Bb, so that's probably your option. https://m-j-c.co.uk/instruments/index.html Jürgen Voigt also makes an extra-large-bore tenor valve trombone with 4 rotary valves that might be up your alley. https://shop.voigt-brass.de/ ...

Wick 9BS or SM9B, Schilke 44E4, Warburton 15D, Pickett 11D, Josef Klier Exclusive 10B (trombone) or 12D (tenor horn*), Bruno Tilz 213 tenor horn* pieces (the 1 size is truly tiny, at 22mm).

*meaning German Bb tenor horn, with standard trombone small shank.

For my ears, compensating systems are one of the worst things to ever happen to brass. But I'm coming from a euphonium concept in my world. The more weight, the more bracing and the more complex you make a brass instrument, the more harmonics you lose in the sound. Supposedly the trade off is ...

Schiller/Jim Laabs is the worst place to buy a Chinese horn from...no quality control, no customer service, and the notoriously awful descriptions. Better to find the same model by another retailer. They're all the same model from the same factory, after all. Thanks, but what's your basis ...

I've had the King, the Olds, and the Blessing. All great players, but pretty different. I don't think any of them is "better" really, they're each just best suited for different things. - The King is the loudest and has a shouty sound - great for playing in loud bands. I use mine in funk bands and a ...

I have a Blessing M-300 Artist marching baritone with the Bauerfeind valves. I used it on a recording session once (never thought I'd get paid to play that, of all things) and volume-wise it had no trouble keeping up with and even cutting through the 28 other brass players in the room. I also had no ...

Slingerland made a whole line of single-valve bugles, including a piccolo soprano. The ones I usually see are your garden variety single-valve sopranos and baritones (the old/small kind, not bass-baritones). I've seen a few piston-rotor bugles as well, but I don't think they lasted very long into ...