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[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ArEAxDnmQ[/youtube]

In case they are new to you: Look also at the website of Opus 333 and enjoy!
Hubert

Wonderful music!

Will leave it playing in my background for a bit.

(And eventually will have to look into what distinguishes saxhorns from more modern brass)

]The (french) saxhorn is the solo cello, while an euphonium is a whole cello group... Compared to the tuba they are strictly classic 4/4 instruments. Modern euphoniums are at least 6/4... For that the saxhorn offers more variety in tone, you can put a lot of velvet into, but you also get let it bark trombone-like.
Opus 333 is now playing the new Willson "Willsax" (switching from the Courtois 366). These are great playing horns, but unfortunately Willson decided to adopt the awkward positioning of the 4th valve from the Besson euphonium. With the valve behind the main bow you have to bend the wrist to reach, only reason for that is the fact that Besson makes their horns this way since ca 1870. (Once one Besson guy tried to explain to me why it could not be made different, but why can they put the valve under the valve slides in front of the main bow on the compensated tubas?).
Having the compensating system is also a step to a more "standard" horn, but the Courtois 366 had this too. So after stopping the 166 by Courtois Couesnon is now the last manufacturer which makes a classic 5 piston saxhorn. And even this does not longer has the classic valve coniguration with a two whole step 3rd valve and a perfect fifth 5th valve... (I love to have the possibility to play a nice open B (natural) under the staff with only two valves!)[attachment=0]166 klein.jpg[/attachment
...playing the 5 piston Courtois 166: