The Brass (horns) Thread

[ThatBassistDude]

Thought this would be a pretty cool thing to start up. Anyone here brass players, like trumpet, trombone etc... Post pictures of your horns and other related things... Common guys, sometimes you need a break from the strings...

Don't have any pictures of my Conn 88HO, and it's at the band hall /: so let's see your beauties!

[blastoff99]

Nice!

I noted in the Rose Parade that one of the bands was marching with P-Bones. Ever played one?

[ThatBassistDude]

Originally Posted by blastoff99

Nice!

I noted in the Rose Parade that one of the bands was marching with P-Bones. Ever played one?

Yeah man! I've got the red one, there really great for what they are.

[jonathan_matos5]

I'll have to clean them up for a photo, but I play trombone and Euphonium (still learning the valves). I'm surprised but i get more gigs on trombone than on bass. I picked up bass about 6 years ago thinking it would open up some gigs instead it has just stayed as a hobby.

[blastoff99]

Originally Posted by jonathan_matos5

I'll have to clean them up for a photo, but I play trombone and Euphonium (still learning the valves). I'm surprised but i get more gigs on trombone than on bass. I picked up bass about 6 years ago thinking it would open up some gigs instead it has just stayed as a hobby.

Interesting that your trombone is getting you gigs. In this town, there are a zillion trombone players for every trumpet player, so 'bone gigs are all taken - for decades - and there's many players chasing the leftovers. If you play trumpet, you've got a much better chance.

I sold my tuba a whole lot of years ago (back injury and general disilluisionment), and just sent the last of the trombones down the road a few months ago, although I had not played in a very long time. The last trombone to go was a late-50s Olds with the octagonal slide. Weird, but cool.

[jonathan_matos5]

Originally Posted by blastoff99

Interesting that your trombone is getting you gigs. In this town, there are a zillion trombone players for every trumpet player, so 'bone gigs are all taken - for decades - and there's many players chasing the leftovers. If you play trumpet, you've got a much better chance.

I sold my tuba a whole lot of years ago (back injury and general disilluisionment), and just sent the last of the trombones down the road a few months ago, although I had not played in a very long time. The last trombone to go was a late-50s Olds with the octagonal slide. Weird, but cool.

Don't get me wrong its cut throat out there and I've got to be on my toes to keep playing, but I was turning down gigs in November and December.

Now I'm playing in 2 combos, the band and sometimes the orchestra at my college and I keep having to tell the music department that I'm already booked and can't play in the musical.

[low end yooper]

Well, I'm in. I play tuba/sousaphone in my high school band, as well as baritone/euphonium (I have one of each, but always forget which is which ). Not really playing a whole lot of baritone anymore, since I'm needed on tuba, but they're still fun to pick up every once in a while.

[Roscoe East]

I don't play any brass instruments, but as a composer (and a fetishist) I've got a real soft spot for the peckhorns, as well as mellophones, mellophoniums, and ophicleides.

[blastoff99]

Originally Posted by Roscoe East

I don't play any brass instruments, but as a composer (and a fetishist) I've got a real soft spot for the peckhorns, as well as mellophones, mellophoniums, and ophicleides.

Oooh, someone said 'ophicleide'!

Do you have one / some? Pics?

[jasper383]

Originally Posted by Roscoe East

I don't play any brass instruments, but as a composer (and a fetishist) I've got a real soft spot for the peckhorns, as well as mellophones, mellophoniums, and ophicleides.

I wrote a paper about the ophicleide in college. True story.

I majored in trombone in college, but haven't played professionally in a long time. I own an early '70s Bach 42B.

[bolophonic]

I cannot play any type of horn to save my life, but my band has 8 members in the brass section:

D-Town Brass

[Big B.]

I played tuba, Bb & C, for years but sadly once I got out of school I lost access. I'd love to have one around but I don't have the cash these days.

[Bard2dbone]

My first instrument was cornet. Basically most school band programs have a system where, if you are a guy of any size, they hand you a larger horn each year until in high school marching season you are trapped underneath a sousaphone.

This was my fate. I ended up being a 'low brass utility man'. I played mostly tuba and euphonium/baritone horn. But in the school jazz band, the director LOVED having doublers switch instruments visibly during tunes for concerts and contests.

For one contest, we did a song where I got the second solo of the piece on bass trombone and then put it down and went over to the bass and took it over while Danny switched to fluegelhorn, and Barry went from fluegelhorn to bass trombone. Then at the end I had a bass/piccolo soli with the (usually) bari sax player. Michelle started the song on piano and swapped with Jan for her alto sax. Glenn just put down his bari and pulled a piccolo out of his pocket. He was the only one who switched back. Based on the judges commentary sheets, they assumed each of us were on our main instrument at the beginning of the song. Actually we were at the end of the song.