John:
Happy to answer your question about the Ophir Prison Band. First of all, its apocryphal. There actually is a small town in Northern California called Ophir, but no prison there. The band was...
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John:
Happy to answer your question about the Ophir Prison Band. First of all, its apocryphal. There actually is a small town in Northern California called Ophir, but no prison there. The band was...
I am two rehearsals into playing with the Joyous Brass on first baritone. Jake Guilbo of San Francisco Brass Band clued me into Joyous Brass and the possibility of landing a spot with them. They...
I was baritone bugle section leader in 1964 of my US Navy recruit drum and bugle corps. I played one of those one-valve baritone bugles. Loved it. When I went to the audition by a Navy Musician there...
So my first marching gig was to happen on Sunday and I didn't have a marching euphonium (a week ago); I did get a harness for my Sterling Virtuoso that I would go with in a pinch, but just didn't...
What a great, magnanimous gesture. I'm sure he will remember you as a significant influence on his musical journey.
--Arnie
I decided to cancel my order for a Yamaha 202M marching euphonium and utilize the YBH-831S Neo baritone for double duty: British-style brass band on Baritone 1 position and to use it as my horn in...
Good point (TheJH). I think the false ads are still being posted on the US Yamaha site.
Thanks for the feedback, Doug. The 621 is still being advertised as compensating. Glad we have members who take such claims seriously and call companies out on it.
Here are the stats Yamaha still...
So, I'm joining a British-style Brass Band at the end of August. At first I was discussing taking a euphonium position, but the band has two solid euphonium players. What they need is another 1st...
So one of our members reached out to me recently re: a Sterling Virtuoso he saw for sale at a local music store on consignment. We live in the same area. He wondered if it was my Sterling that I was...
Always sorry to see a "local to me" euph dealer demise. Even though I never anything from him, I enjoyed perusing his periodic offerings and heard good things about his resourcefulness and...
Not surprisingly I came across a John Packer verions of a marching euphonium, the JP2053. Here is a brief sound sample by a British fellow (who gets a pretty darn good sound out of it).
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You're welcome. Kind of interesting that we decades-long humans still hearken back to those marching band or corps days and look for opportunities to rekindle the joy of that form of our music...
I was section leader for Baritone Bugles (one valve) all during Navy Boot camp in San Diego at age 17. I don't recall the bugle feeling as though it weighed anything at all. But I think after playing...
About to add this to my instrument family. Also about to join a 50-year-since-its-founding community marching band. I will NOT be trying to use my very heavy Sterling Virtuoso as a marching euphonium...
This is good advice. Everything you said seems right on, and we are a brand-new-to-each-other quartet. Also, the arrangement plays a strong factor. The nice hymn-style melody is beautiful and if the...
Ha ha. My inner tempest agrees; but the angel on my shoulder wonders if I'm not commanding my horn properly.
Love my Sterling Virtuoso's ability to carry above our wind band and be heard over the the larger ensemble. However, in preparing for a Tuba Euphonium quartet performance in which I play 2nd...
Hello, Larry:
Good for you. I get most of my TTEE (Tuba Euphonium Quartet) pieces from Cimmaron Music. Some available for download; others need to be shipped. Love them. Here's a link to their brass...
Including the Web address for the Cal Poly Humboldt brass chamber music workshop in Arcata, CA, that I and a tubist from my Capitol Pops Tuba Euphonium quartet will be attending.
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Done. Message folder now empty and ready for new messages.
Hmmm. Didn't know about needing to delete private messages; I will do that. And I appreciate the response.
Wow. Larry. Selling this? Did it not agree with you? I'm so attached to mine that it will have to be pried from my cold, dead fingers. Curious why you're electing to let it go, but I also know you...
A tuba player in my newly formed Tuba Euphonium quartet alerted me to this brass chamber music camp held each year in Humboldt, CA. He has attended several. Thanks to him, I will be attending the...
I with you, Larry, in that I play because I love it. The root of the word amateur means love, and I don't know anyone in my various organizations who aren't there because they feel obligated to push...