POLL: My fairly-new-to-me euphonium...You guys tell me all about it.

[bloke]

[tokuno]

rounded top bow, old-timey valve caps, thin metal slide pulls - does Weril make a compensator?

[Three Valves]

Shiny...

[bort2.0]

This appears to be a still image from the old Patterson-Gimlin euphonium-in-the-woods video...

[GC]

Y'allphonium was not a choice?

[YorkNumber3.0]

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[bloke]

Good point...
I start using "y'all" when I sense engineers may be lurking, just in case it might possibly trigger them.

[bloke]

This appears to be a still image from the old Patterson-Gimlin euphonium-in-the-woods video...

"Play softly and tap with a big foot...??"

Hyphen-wise, I much prefer the Cloward–Piven "massive disruption" strategy for using it to cover bass trombone parts at church gigs.

[bloke]

Please - in particular - notice the mouthpiece;
It's inserted into the receiver, and assists me in operating the rest of the instrument.

I'm considering putting a 4+1 front-action valveset on it, and cutting it to C, because that's just how I roll.

[YorkNumber3.0]

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[hrender]

Good point...
I start using "y'all" when I sense engineers may be lurking, just in case it might possibly trigger them.

My limited experience with extended contact with engineers (couple of summer months spent at NASA Langley in the 1980s) is that they're just as likely to say y'all as other folks.

[bloke]

Please - in particular - notice the mouthpiece

Knurling? CB BT?

NOTA, and thank-you for granting my request.

[YorkNumber3.0]

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[bloke]

According to the Sidwell and Siegfried grammar book, that SHOULD have been "doesn't's".

[bloke]

so...Are you guys trying to tell me that I should sell this one and buy a Wesley Jolie model, and apply to become a Wesley artiste ?

BTW...Have any of y'all been through the Wesley Method book ?

[jtm]

Good point...
I start using "y'all" when I sense engineers may be lurking, just in case it might possibly trigger them.

My limited experience with extended contact with engineers (couple of summer months spent at NASA Langley in the 1980s) is that they're just as likely to say y'all as other folks.

Absolutely right! Besides, it's a great gender-inclusive group word (compared to, say, "you guys").

[bloke]

The person who guessed that it’s a M-W 451 has a good eye.

It’s actually a store brand stencil of a 551, which which - improved intonation over the 451 - is more similar to the current “Phoenix” model 751…
though my 551 stencil features a special gold brass (80:20) bell.

Here’s the “we can order you one“ Brasswind webpage for the 751:
https://www.wwbw.com/Meinl-Weston-751-P ... 01000.wwbw

The bell throat and below (the interior of the bell in general) of the 551 is huge.
The instrument asks for third valve for the two lower G’s and – just as with many makes – the upper E-flat rides sharp, but is tuned lower by also adding the third valve to the first valve, resulting in a flat seventh partial on a Sharp F overtone… If anyone “gets” that…(??)

Other than those things, I can just - simply - play it, and it doesn’t need any sort of main tuning slide trigger thingy.

I don’t know if the really big bell interior shape is what causes this to be so, but it’s quite easy to play quite loud, without me having to exert much energy.

Though these are technically still in the M-W line (again: the current model is called 751), I’m guessing that Buffet is dragging their feet on manufacturing these, because they are made in the same factory (in Markneukirchin) as Besson, and they probably don’t particularly like the idea of competing with themselves…(??)

All in all, it suits me.

I “show-and-tell-ed” this thing, only because one doesn’t see them every day.

[the elephant]

An effective amplifier of the sound of vibrating bits of skin.

[the elephant]

Not fully weened.

[the elephant]

Stays crunchy, even in milk.