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Have any of you ever played the Courtios Euphoniums that are built in the "Saxhorn" style? Specifically, the one at Dillons. How do they play compared to a modern compensating euphonium? I am curious because they are listed in the most current Courtois catalog (I know about their "restucturing"). They look different, but do they play different than a Besson-style euph? Please clue me in.

Gorilla Tuba wrote:Have any of you ever played the Courtios Euphoniums that are built in the "Saxhorn" style? Specifically, the one at Dillons. How do they play compared to a modern compensating euphonium? I am curious because they are listed in the most current Courtois catalog (I know about their "restucturing"). They look different, but do they play different than a Besson-style euph? Please clue me in.

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I bet it's like the British baritone, in the way that a bass trombone is like a small tenor trombone. Not substitutable for the more tuba-like euphonium, in any but the most general sense of valved brass that can play in that range.

My guess is that it plays very much the same as the American baritone (as in my signature), with the added resistance of the compensating system. Yes, I know mine's foreward action and bell forward, but the tuning before the valves (cylindrical) and the bore profile looks more alike than with a euphonium.

Don’t have a Courtois Saxhorn basse en Si Bemol, as I was warned off them. Not because of bad quality, but because of their price being irrelevantly high.

My Saxhorn basse is a de Prins 3+2 in Bb with a small receiver like the best US baritones of bygone days.

Fine for period performances, but too lean for what I expect from a modern euph.

Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre