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The baritone horn, sometimes called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. [2] It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical , like the smaller and higher pitched flugelhorn and tenor horn , but it has a narrower bore compared to the similarly pitched euphonium .
The euphonium is a medium-sized, 3- or 4-valve, often compensating, conical-bore, tenor-voiced brass instrument that derives its name from the Ancient Greek word εὔφωνος euphōnos, [2] meaning "well-sounding" or "sweet-voiced" (εὖ eu means "well" or "good" and φωνή phōnē means "sound", hence "of good sound").
The tuba and euphonium are examples of whole-tube brass instruments. Half-tube instruments have smaller bores in relation to tubing length and cannot easily or accurately play the fundamental tone. The second partial (first overtone) is the lowest note of each tubing length practical to play on half-tube instruments.
B ♭ baritone saxhorn: baritone horn; The B ♭ bass, E ♭ bass, and B ♭ contrabass saxhorns are basically the same as the modern euphonium, E ♭ bass tuba, and BB ♭ contrabass tuba, respectively. Historically, much confusion exists as to the nomenclature of the various instruments in different languages.
SaviDraw, by Silicon Beach Software, is a modern vector drawing program for Windows 10. It is available only from the Microsoft app store. It is designed to work well with touch screens - no functions require keyboard modifiers. It features a new way to draw vector curves (very different from the traditional Pen tool) and has voice-command ...
The United States Army Brass Quintet. A brass quintet is a five-piece musical ensemble composed of brass instruments.The instrumentation for a brass quintet typically includes two trumpets or cornets, one French horn, one trombone or euphonium/baritone horn, and one tuba or bass trombone.The two instrumentations of the brass quintet that are currently in use are the quintet of two trumpets ...
The Euphonium was added to the bugle choir around the same time as the mellophone bugle. Euphoniums often feature a larger bore, larger bell throat, and larger bell than the bass-baritone. The Euphonium has been available in D piston configurations with F and F# rotors, F piston and F# rotor configuration, two piston, and three piston ...
Frank Holton & Company, founded in 1896, is still an active brand of Conn-Selmer, but no longer manufactures tenor brass such as the “Falcone Model” baritone of the late 70s. Buescher Band Instrument Company manufactured tenor brass in Elkhart Indiana from 1894 – until being sold to Selmer (now Conn-Selmer) in 1963.