"In the Good Old Summertime," hanging on the wall of Oberkugen's Music Store (which is where *I* want to go when I die): a double-bell euphonium. This is a different model horn than the one in
"Gift of the Magi," as the small bell is on the left rather than the right. And there has to be at least one d-bell in "The Music Man." The only way I can account for these horns getting so much face time is that all three of these movies are set in the United States in the first decade of the twentieth century, a time when traveling circuses and traveling military-type bands both flourished; and double-bell euphs were featured in both contexts. Again, I have to give kudos to the technical directors and props departments at Fox and MGM.

As contrasted with the utter "wrongness" of "The Santa Fe Trail." THOSE people should be tied to chairs and forced to listen to "Bohemian Rhapsody" played by a quartet of bagpipes.