Happy Easter

[bisontuba]

[nobody]

He is risen!
https://youtu.be/9a2Va94Tldc" target="_blank

[MikeMason]

I had a lady say "you sound like you have an amplifier in that thing!". Nice compliment

[Heavy_Metal]

played a fistful of those Webster (choir/organ/brass/timp) fanfarish arr's. today (X2 srvc's) on euphonium (bass tbn. parts) and played tuba on about four tunes each srvc. generous remuner...happy easter !

Any of these going to end up on YouTuba like this one did? If so, they should be well worth hearing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... gsHV8X7YSs" target="_blank

[bisontuba]

not recorded...
(placed at another church this year by the local gigfather...roughly 1.5 miles - about 1 mile "as the crow flies - from the church seen in your linked video.)

loads of Richard Webster settings yesterday.

In my view, R.W...
- views brass as "percussion with sustained pitch"
- over-harmonizes
- sometimes writes brass intro's that have little-if-nothing to do with the hymns they introduce

All of this having been said...
Mrs. bloke gave me a SOLID chocolate Easter bunny !!!



bloke "The church's choir director's OWN brass settings of all of the other tunes were superior, imo...but he LOVES R.W., and I'm delighted to be able to make him happy...which is my job."

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If you want to cover bass trombone parts on euphonium, want the sound to be as massive (and as loud) as a tuba (competes with a mighty pipe organ, and supplies a BIG BASS sound), do not want the pitch/tuning to be affected, you should consider an Elliott contrabass trombone mouthpiece. I had NO idea how well this would work, and didn't originally buy this mouthpiece to use with my euphonium Throw your barituba (etc.) mouthpieces in the trash.
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(hi-res) our approximate view from the organ/choir loft:
http://database.organsociety.org/photos ... ield01.jpg

JCIRT-RW-BT.jpg

Arguably (though signature R.W.) this is one of his BETTER settings... At least (though uber-fanfarish), it isn't over-harmonized.

Organ Player 'tipped' us all --besides our check--for the weekend work with a chocolate Easter Bunny ...

[Heavy_Metal]

Any of these going to end up on YouTuba like this one did? If so, they should be well worth hearing:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... gsHV8X7YSs

magnificent trumpet playing (per usual with Charlie), but ' just a little difficult to listen to that without tearing up...
http://trumpetguild.org/content/itg-new ... lieq-gates

R.I.P., Charlie.