Starting a 10-piece

[MartyNeilan]

Started AND finished!

[TubaRay]

I don't get it.

No surprise, here.

[Naptown Tuba]

A trombonist friend and I are interested in starting a 10-piece. He's got some music and I have some more too, so that's not a big problem (though I'd love to play some of the German Brass stuff!).

He's a teacher at a small music school, so we might be able to give a concert there.
All we need is players! I had really wanted to play tuba, but since I know 2 other tuba players that would do it and no bass trombonists I suppose I could do that.


Usual line up seems to be-

4 trumpets
2 french horns
3 trombones, maybe one of them on bariphonium
1 tuba


I HAVE played in a brass band 10-piece, which was-
4 cornets
1 flugelhorn
1 alto horn
1 euphonium
2 trombones
1 tuba
And we did have a drummer on some stuff.

But since It's not going to be a brass band style group, that really doesn't matter.

I'm REALLY not a french horn guy at all, so I'm going to try 2 saxophones (maybe alto tenor, but probably just 2 altos). I think it'll sound really neat with them in, and they are sorta brassy.


So far we have-
0 trumpets, but maybe 1 or 2 as of now
1, maybe 2 saxophones
2 trombones
1 tuba


So, we need probably at least 2 trumpets and 1 tenor trombone. Anyone in Chicago interested in this?


Any other tips?
Thanks!

Hey Bob,

Are you on Ritalin, or what???????

[hbcrandy]

Getting back to the topic, the Phillip Jones Brass Ensemble (PJBE) of London used an instrumentation of 4 trps, 1 hn, 4 trbs and 1 tuba. The large version of the Homewood Brass Consort (http://www.homewoodbrass.com, see the Repertoire page for sound samples of the large ensemble) uses the Phillip Jones instrumentation with an additional horn as an assistant.

Much of the PJBE music is still available. Chester Music was the original publisher of the Just Brass series.

[hbcrandy]

As a clarification to my last post, the Homewood Brass Consort's large brass ensemble link says that the group is thirteen players. The 12th and thirteenth are two percussionist when needed. The sound samples of the Susato and the Earl of Oxford are being played with 10 players of Phillip Jones instrumentation.

[Dan Schultz]

I play with The Rhine Valley Brass. It's the house band of our local Germania Mannerchor German club. Not really a 'brass band' but it makes for a good name. The instrumentation is:

- two clarinets
- two trumpets/flugelhorns
- one trombone
- one baritone/euphonium
- one tuba
- one drummer

This works very good for most anything ranging from Hungry Five arrangments to traditional concert band music without having to worry much about anything other than Bb parts. We keep it simple.

[DavidJMills]

I had a coaching gig for a small performing arts high school program. I wanted to do Ewald 3 because it fit the historical parameters. When I got there , my "brass group" was 1 trumpet,2 saxs and tuba. The trombone dude never showed , so I euphed it. We transposed the 2nd trumpet to 1st alto and the horn to 2nd alto.It was a most enjoyable sonority. As long as you can get the saxes to chill on the vibrato, I think it will be just fine.DaveMills

[TubaingAgain]

Stuff the saxes to socks to tone them down. (Not as deadly)