The Dennis Wick SM6B (Steven Mead 6 Baritone) in gold is an *absolutely* incredible mouthpiece for this horn. I've been playing on my BR140 Wessex Baritone for a little over a year now, and I am in...
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The Dennis Wick SM6B (Steven Mead 6 Baritone) in gold is an *absolutely* incredible mouthpiece for this horn. I've been playing on my BR140 Wessex Baritone for a little over a year now, and I am in...
I am also a big fan of spotify. Tons of obscure classical music available, and some publishers even have a lot of rare vinyl recordings scanned in to be made available on the service. As for brass...
Peace by John Golland, while having an accompaniment, *might* be worth considering. The melody is carried by the solo instrument for practically the whole piece, and it's an achingly beautiful little...
I have a friend who's interested in this same question too.
So I was doing some idle cruising through recordings of videogame music on Youtube the other day, and came across this very nice recording of a track from the game Chrono Trigger. The game itself...
I've been using an SM6B myself in my Wessex, and have been pretty smitten with it. To be fair, I haven't tried a 6BS, but from what I can gather you can't go wrong with it either.
Just one the mouthpiece chat, I just bought the Steven Mead version of the 6 size baritone mouthpiece, the SM6B, and it's marvelous in my baritone. I'm sure the 6BS would be great too, but I can only...
During his interview with Steve Carell, they even talked about how Colbert had to learn to play it in about a week for a gig when they were first starting out....
The Wessex mouthpiece is more then adequate, the second euph player in my community brass band plays it with his Wessex all the time. Personally I prefer the DW 4AL, but I pop the Wessex in every...
Another option is to look at a Bach 5G, which sits somewhere in the middle between the Dennis Wick 4AL and 6.5AL. I used one for a while when I was first relearning on a small bore Jupiter rental...
I know you kinda covered it, but is the Baritone also receiving this treatment? I intend to purchase one within a month or so, and would love to have this feature. My Dolce is great, but it does seem...
I can't speak for Schiller's line, but I love my lacquered Wessex Dolce. Have had it for close to 10 months now, and for the money I put into it, I'm a happy customer. A section mate of mine also...
Thanks for sharing, I contacted him.
My teacher has me warming up with Claude Gordon's Daily Trumpet Routines, followed by playing through Herbert L. Clark's Technical Studies for the Cornet. Between these two and scale work, I get a...
I'm working on Morceau Symphonique myself right now for a Canadian Royal Conservatory of Music Grade 8 test. It's a great piece, you really couldn't go wrong choosing it. Unless of course it's not to...
Dave's own arrangement of the first two movements of Holst's Second Suite in F is fantastic, played it for a university audition which I passed.
1st movement (2nd movement of the original piece):...
I purchased a copy, I look forward to giving it a spin!
@DaveBj YOu bring up a good point, but from my 100% unscientific playing around with it this afternoon, for me d/guh seems to have a slightly softer attack with a subtly longer contact behind the...
Have you tried any other syllables for an extended amount of time with daily practice? Claude Gordon advocated using Tee/Taw Kee/Kaw for double tonguing and Taw Taw Kaw for triple tonguing(t/kee for...
I've used one for about 6 months now, and I'm also in love with mine! It makes it so much easier to be relaxed, and it givse the right hand more freedom to actuate the valves since it doesn't have to...
A 1/16th note is a semiquaver, actually, and an 1/8th note is a quaver
I am definitely a big fan of the version with the muted euphonium 'choir', I find the open euphonium 'choir' blends a bit too much or too little at the different ranges whereas the muted one seems...
Sounds an awful lot like the approach in The Inner Game of Music, and that kind of methodology has helped me sooo much, especially with vibrato control and tone.
Nice horn! I'm sure it'll treat you very well.
That repair shop is just plain wrong though. The Wessex and it's Jinbao brethren are a clone of the Yamaha 642, so any repair shop should be able to...
I just got offered a position with a community brass band as 1st Baritone, but now I need to buy one! I see you've had your Wessex Baritone since April now, How have the horn/valves/etc. broken in...