baritone horn in Halloween pops concert
Posted: Fri Oct 01, 2021 8:26 am
I’m actually going to use “euphonium(S)“ on three numbers:
I have already mentioned that I’m going to use a Yamaha YEP-321 - that I dug out of the attic, cleaned up, straightened out, and fixed up - to play the “tenor tuba“ part on “Mars” from The Planets. Its smaller valve section bore and small shank receiver - along with a medium-size mouthpiece - define that this high-register part is much less dicey, much less work, provide a little bit more “sparkle“ in the resonance (important, considering that the bells on these things point the wrong direction), and much easier (particularly for a doubler - who doesn’t care to mess with some main slide trigger) to play in tune.
Two other euphonium pieces will be Charles Gounod’s “Funeral March For a Marionette” (aka Alfred Hitchcock theme) and Berlioz’ “March to the Scaffold”, which are ophicleide parts. Both of those parts are more “bassoon/bass-line-ish” and dip down into the “compensating“ range, so I will also bring along the large-bore compensating euphonium with a considerably larger mouthpiece.
Otherwise, I plan to play everything else on the compact/wide-belled Holton BB-flat tuba - that I built for myself recently… John Williams stuff, movie medleys, Danse Macabre, Toccata & Fugue, and the like.
…so, if you want to read stuff that’s actually interesting, go elsewhere.
I have already mentioned that I’m going to use a Yamaha YEP-321 - that I dug out of the attic, cleaned up, straightened out, and fixed up - to play the “tenor tuba“ part on “Mars” from The Planets. Its smaller valve section bore and small shank receiver - along with a medium-size mouthpiece - define that this high-register part is much less dicey, much less work, provide a little bit more “sparkle“ in the resonance (important, considering that the bells on these things point the wrong direction), and much easier (particularly for a doubler - who doesn’t care to mess with some main slide trigger) to play in tune.
Two other euphonium pieces will be Charles Gounod’s “Funeral March For a Marionette” (aka Alfred Hitchcock theme) and Berlioz’ “March to the Scaffold”, which are ophicleide parts. Both of those parts are more “bassoon/bass-line-ish” and dip down into the “compensating“ range, so I will also bring along the large-bore compensating euphonium with a considerably larger mouthpiece.
Otherwise, I plan to play everything else on the compact/wide-belled Holton BB-flat tuba - that I built for myself recently… John Williams stuff, movie medleys, Danse Macabre, Toccata & Fugue, and the like.
…so, if you want to read stuff that’s actually interesting, go elsewhere.
