Hello all! I'm new here. To give you context for my question, I'll give you the quick rundown on who I am:
Trumpet was my main instrument for 20 years, I went to school for music, got a MM from New England Conservatory, played professionally for several years, then burnt out around age 30. I took a few years away from playing seriously, then started toying with a valve trombone (and gigging on it with bar bands.) Several months ago, I started playing slide trombone, and have now been itching to get back into chamber/orchestral music (likely on euph). I recently got a call to play euph in an orchetra -- which I'd love to do, but I don't have a horn.
I will likely just try to find a borrow for this gig, but as I begin to poke around and think about buying one, I realized that I don't even know which horns are appropriate for what I am looking to do. I don't think I need a compensating instrument (and can't afford one anyway!) as I've never played one (back in high school I played a Yamaha 321 for 3 years), and won't be playing at a pro level anymore.
I'm leaning on a used 321 due to it's small shank, and relative known-entity-ness. Should I be looking at other things? Is this an appropriate instrument for orchestral & chamber settings? What am I forgetting/missing? Any other suggesions you all can make?
Thanks in advance!