tbn.al wrote:Can't help but wonder, since the trombone family predates the tenor horn family by hundreds of years, why those bands were predisposed to tenor horns. Then I try to imagine playing a trombone on horseback? Could there have been a military aversion to slides due to a horseback requirement? If so, what did the military bands use before valves? Bugles?
They used oboes, basoons, serpents, Russian bassoons & ophecleides. Thank heaven for the invention of the valve.
bardus est ut bardus probo, Bill Souder
All mushrooms are edible, some are edible only once.
The tag on the horn that I bought at a Goodwill store for about $50 about ten or so years ago said, "trumpet."
Its name is what someone calls it, as "What is That Thing?" indicates.
What it is is a Grand Rapids USA Line baritone/euphonium (made by York) that had been turned around to play left-handed. The serial number indicates a manufacture date somewhere around a century ago. I don't remember exactly, 1907 to 1917 I think.
Pictures, or it didn't happen? I'm technologically challenged when it comes to posting pictures. Look for you tube TubaChristmas Atlanta 2010 or 2012.
Edited for a pesky apostrophe that snuck in where it should not have been.
youtube search for Tuba Christmas 2010 Atlanta Jingle Bells. I start showing up at about the 14 second mark and several more times. It is an upright euph, as I said, Grand Rapids Band Instrument Co., a York stencil, that someone in one of its previous lifetimes had changed to left-handed. Took all apart and reversed. I found it at a Goodwill store for about $50. Excuse me, USA Line by Grand Rapids B. I. Co.
