Why Do Euphonium players double on the trombone?

Easty621 · Post by **Easty621** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 4:53 pm

I have a friend who is a euphonium player and he plays trombone so he can be in jazz and orchestra.

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:04 pm

same size brass mouthpiece (within reason)

beats playing oboe on the side!

phoenix · Post by **phoenix** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:11 pm

To keep their options open. So they can play in orchestra, band, jazz band, and brass quintet and get the full musical experience

ufoneum · Post by **ufoneum** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 5:39 pm

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Leland · Post by **Leland** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:10 pm

I never "switched" -- I "added" euphonium once I learned valves, having started on trombone several years before. Soon after that, I "added" tuba.

Why not add trombone? Even without getting paid for it, I don't see what could be bad about getting to play more music more often.

(yes, I know that euphs can be jazzy, but unless you really overblow them, they just don't sound like trombones)

Lew · Post by **Lew** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:13 pm

bloke wrote:...

...Is it so they can play actual gigs and get paid?

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You beat me to it. This is clearly the answer. I don't know how many professional euphonium opportunities are there in the world, but other than military bands there seems to be very few.

CrappyEuph · Post by **CrappyEuph** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:31 pm

Sophie wrote:I have often wondered extactly why a euphonium player would ever want to play the trombone?

Because we're sadists.

RyanMcGeorge · Post by **RyanMcGeorge** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:44 pm

Because even euphonium players like to bone

CrappyEuph · Post by **CrappyEuph** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 7:58 pm

Nice.

RyanMcGeorge · Post by **RyanMcGeorge** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 11:12 pm

You must have never gone backstage after a "Banda M-60" show

Brian · Post by **Brian** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 8:05 am

Yea McGeorge! Banda M-60 rocks!!! I love Luis Hernandez!

Rick F · Post by **Rick F** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 9:54 am

What do you call a professional euphonium player who does not play in a Military band?

Unemployed.

Carroll · Post by **Carroll** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 10:55 am

I find that my trombone doubling is an in-road to more euphonium playing. If an employer (booking agent, band leader, church choir director, etc.) can't spell euphonium, they will not hire me. But if I get on the job and pull out the euph on a sax ballad, or quiet vocal thing, or play duet with a flugel, then they get a good idea what I can do with valves and they say "be sure to bring your baritone back next week". I can then use the euphonium on more and more things (although, it will not replace the trombone in all cases) and there can be jazz euphonium in our small to medium sized town.

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