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Do you specifically mean "baritone" or do you mean "euphonium"? (Both or either are not acceptable options.)

"Living with Baritones" makes it sound like some sort of congenital disorder.

I find baritones much more pleasant men than tenors.

From the perspective of brass bands.... I generally find euphoniums to be fairly pleasant but baritones to be downright annoying.

bloke wrote:Can we just embrace the generic (for all of the variants mentioned above) "bariturd" ?

LOL. That's a new one for me!


It's the tenor sax that I HATE!!!!!!!!!

I like bariphoniums but they're horribly misused. Euphoniums should be low range instruments, not the counter melody squealer they are written as.

From a brass band perspective . . . to me, baritones who came from euphonium sound like euphoniums with a slightly thinner tone, while baritones who came from trombone sound like slightly less offensive (darker) valve trombones.

tuben wrote:

opus37 wrote:Do you specifically mean "baritone" or do you mean "euphonium"? (Both or either are not acceptable options.)

+1

I would only add that my primary complaint about Euphonium players is that they all sound alike.

I agree mostly because every baritone and euph are practically the same design dementions. Besson, Yamaha, Willson, you name it. Its like everyone copying a 186 and saying their's is better because becaise of "....." Oh wait tuba makers did that already . But they are also like a violin in the fact that.. when its in the right hands it sounds beautiful and when its in the wrong hands...... its nails on a chalk board.

I kinda like bearphoniums... Just don't play one.

bloke wrote:Whatever happened to the beartone cimbasso ?

snorlax wrote:SELLMANSBERGER:
You. Are. In. Deep. Trouble.
I have friends who work for the IRS, and they LOVE baritones.

Snorlax (Baritone Community Organizer)

+1

GC wrote:From a brass band perspective . . . to me, baritones who came from euphonium sound like euphoniums with a slightly thinner tone, while baritones who came from trombone sound like slightly less offensive (darker) valve trombones.

A baritone horn is the chameleon of the brass band. It's sound can be manipulated to sound like a euphonium, trombone, tenor horn and baritone horn and serves as the link, within the ensemble's tessitura, between all the aforementioned instruments.

Can be, certainly. But how many players actually take advantage of its flexibility? How many simply play with the sound that they're comfortable producing and let it stop there?

And can you say that this flexibility can be seen as a lack of an essential character of its own?

I used not to think much of baritone, but of recent test playing them before selling, I have come to rather like their tone.

I would say a baritone is to a euphonium - is like an F tuba is to a BBb tuba. Lacks the breath of tone, but has a nice clear tone all of its own.

tank wrote "dementions." I had never thought of it that way, but that about says it all.

alfredr (Some people march to a different drummer. And some people polka.) (Speaking of dementions)

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Here is a good example of how a baritone can sound
http://youtu.be/3rV2ZwyGdY8

Expressive, lyrical playing. Thanks for sharing!