I'm curious if there was a reason Wessex decided to make this other than Jonathan wanted it (which, to be fair, is a good reason). I don't know of any cimbasso players (or prospective cimbasso players) clamoring for a piston BBb. Wessex also posted some pictures/videos of the two ways you can put ...

Some of those F major chords in the A-Team theme song are pretty gnarly.

They had a few Willson tubas at NAMM, alongside a couple of Willson euphs and all the Eastman/Shires stuff (including the Shires Q series euph right next to the Willson euphs). I don't think the Willson range is going anywhere, except maybe their trombones (which have never been popular). The 2 ...

Most of my favorite pieces would fit here of course, and I'm sure it would be the same for most people.

The one that first jumps out at me as "yeah, I could perform this every week and it would never get old" is Tchaikovsky 4, on bass trombone specifically. What a blast to play.

I've played First Suite a whole bunch of times, but it never gets old. For my money it's the most perfect wind band piece ever written.

I've never played the Second Suite or Lincolnshire Posy.

Universal Judgment is also what I immediately thought of when I read the title. My high school band director was cool, so she would give us stuff like this to play. There were separate baritone and euphonium parts too! Also, I thought this piece was an original work for band rather than an ...

That having been said, I've never seen a "shared" orchestral part before. LOL...even in Haydn (etc.) symphonies - where the trumpet is basically a "honking percussion instrument", separate trumpet and timpani parts are supplied. The Haydn Creation bass trombone and contrabassoon parts might as well ...

Sadly, the last Melton version of kaiser baritone (that I found on the web - and on an old site page) looked to be compensating euphonium BODY with a rotary valveset pasted on to it. Yikes! I guess what reminded me of this - and prompted me to type this paragraph - is that one compensating ...

They come in 3 basic sizes. Tenor horn (roughly equivalent to British baritone horn), baritone (roughly equivalent to American baritone horn, but better), and Kaiserbaritone (roughly equivalent to euphonium). The straight (normal rotary tuba shape, rather than oval-shaped) model Kaiser baritones are ...

That's all excellent information to know, and I certainly appreciate your expertise so that I (and future people who want a marching baritone and will inevitably come across this thread) can learn that they are all different despite looking the same. Are the Olds/Bach/Blessing/Reynolds flugabones ...

Blessing were different from Olds. Their own mellophone was wretched (they paid Walter Lawson to design a new mouthpipe for it. The mouthpipe wasn't the problem; it was the rest of it). I've never encountered one of their marching trombone things, because they were already fading from popularity ...

I'd love to get one of those Olds(/Bach/Blessing) flugabones to compare to my King. I really like the Olds/Bach/Blessing marching baritone, and it would be neat to have a matched pair (not that I own either one yet).

I have a Wessex Dolce. In his online review of it, Algirdas Matonis expressed his opinion that the Dolce would meet the needs of 90 percent of euphonium players. I read a lot of online harrumphing about that assertion. The Dolce and Festivo are absolutely good enough for professional use. I would ...

I played that version (on euphonium) in my senior year of high school - it has a ripping euphonium part!

Currently: - 2007 Sterling Virtuoso euphonium (rimless bell!) - Jin Bao JBBR-1240 British-style baritone horn (which plays spectacularly well) - Josef Lidl 3-valve rotary bass trumpet - 1984 King 1130 flugabone (somehow, this beat up ex-school horn that I got for $67 is the one I gig with the most ...

Euphonium = British tenor tuba Bass saxhorn = French tenor tuba Kaiserbariton = German tenor tuba I love this way of laying it out. Though, I wonder if a French C tuba would be similar--isn't its fundamental a whole step higher than a Bb euph? As far as I know, the French tuba is just an extra ...

FWIW, there's a 3-valve Besson Eb with a 12" bell that's been kicking around Facebook for a while, so it would probably make sense that the Fs also could get as small as that.

As someone who loved my old Boosey small 15" bell compensating Eb precisely because it played and sounded like a big euphonium, and someone who is more comfortable in F than Eb, it makes me happy to read that the Wessex British F plays well. Even typical 19" bell British Ebs and I don't see eye to ...

It does appear to be a bass saxhorn. They're all just local flavors of tenor tuba though. Euphonium = British tenor tuba Bass saxhorn = French tenor tuba Kaiserbariton = German tenor tuba I have a 4-valve bass saxhorn in C and a 4-valve compensating euphonium. Play them back to back and it's easy to ...

Hey everyone, I'm looking for a few parts with specific qualities for a couple of projects I'm planning. No rush, but not a lot of budget either. They can be part of a complete instrument (trashed or not) or alone, in any reasonably repairable condition. 1. A trombone bell (or similar) with a tiny ...