Please help name my quintet...

[Arkietuba]

I'm in college and we've started up a new brass quintet. We need a name pretty soon and none of us have really given it much thought (other than joke-names). The faculty brass quintet is the Summit Brass Quintet, one of the student quintets is the Spherical Brass Quintet and the other student quintet is the Imperial Brass Quintet (so we cannot use those names). I kinda liked the name I came up with as a joke, The Apex Brass, we were trying to play off of the faculty quintet name. So...if any of you have any suggestions that would be really helpfull...Thanks...

[DonShirer]

To keep it in the same page of Roget's, how about Apogee or Solstice..?
Add the appropriate groupifier you prefer.

Don S.

[Kevin Miller]

Bear Claw Brass
Bear *** Brass
Purple Bear Brass
The Brasstastic Brass Quintet
Bearly Brass
Buncha Brass

On a more serious note

Conway Classical Brass
Conway Chamber Brass
PentaBrass
Class Brass
Forte Brass

Just to name a few.

[tubaman5150]

tower brass

[Alex F]

we are a swedish tuba quartet. And at first we thought that we'd probably be the only tuba quartet in sweden. So we considered to name ourself: "Swedish tuba quartet" but after a while we realized that there is actually at least one more tuba quartet in sweden. So until we hear them we'd probably have to wait with that prestigious name.

So any idea of a name is welcome.

May I suggest the LUTEFISKERS

O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk, how fragrant your aroma.
O Lutefisk, O Lutefisk, you put me in a coma.
You smell so strong, you look like glue
You taste yust like an overshoe
But Lutefisk, come Saturday
I tink I'll eat you anyvay...

--Verse with a Scandinavian twist from O Lutefisk, to be sung to the tune of O Tannenbaum

[Brendan Bohnhorst]

If you really want to play off of the faculty name try this one,

TimmuS Brass Quintet

[Captain Sousie]

To work off of your joke name: The Summit Five, The High Five, Summit Junior.

Sousie

[vmi5198]

My brass quintet in uni used the name, "Paius Brass" (pay-us brass, respelled to look Latin), or sometimes the less subtle approach, "Money-Up-Front-Brass".

[Anterux]

ArkBrassQuintet

ArkieBrassQuintet

[KarlMarx]

The Tin Can Anchovies

Carolus Baptissimus

[JB]

FWIW:

For your consideration...
there is already a brass ensemble (larger than quintet, though) that goes by the name Summit Brass, and also a quintet called Foothill(s) Brass.


Another option is to grab the name of a composer whose works for brass you all admire...
Arnold, Bozza, Ewald, and so on,

and become the [insert name here] Brass Quintet.

(The same technique seems to work for some string quartets; why not try the same thing.)

[phoenix]

Brass Chamber

[Dylan King]

Brass Sandwich

[Alex F]

The Hamms Beeratones
From the land of sky blue water . . .

Ooops... showing my age

The Hamm's Beer Jingle

http://mmd.foxtail.com/Sounds/hamms.mid

[Biggs]

I recently talked to someone who played in a (now-disbanded) quintet called the Brizzle Quintizzle. While I don't suggest you steal their name, I encourage you to think outside the traditionally stilted monikers adopted by most classical chamber groups.

[CJ Krause]

Brass of Class or

Classy Brass

[Arkietuba]

Thanks...that really helps me out (even the unserious names)...I'll present some of them and I'll try to tell you what we name ourselves...Thanks again.

[Dylan King]

Brass Grass

Yeah. I like that one.

[tubapress]

Caustic Arts Ensemble

[Carroll]

My student quintet call themselves the Brass Holes