Saxhorn Style Euphonium

[Gorilla Tuba]

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.

[Donn]

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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See enthusiastic discussion.

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.

[windshieldbug]

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.

[imperialbari]

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