Euphonium

Euphoniums produce sound like all brass instruments do. When a Euphonium player buzzes his/her lips and pushes air into the horn through a mouthpiece, it makes the air start vibrating against the tubes of the horn. The sound is produced through these vibrations, and so the smaller the vibrations the higher the pitch. This is also why a Euphonium or any brass player can not produce sound by simply blowing into the instrument; he/she has to make the air vibrate as well.

Finding sheet music for solo Euphonium is rather difficult. If you read bass clef, it may be easier to simply find trombone sheet music and play off of that. If you read treble clef, go with trumpet sheet music. Both are Bb instruments like the Euphonium, and have similar tonal structure as well, so it wouldn't be too difficult to use those instead of Euphonium music.

If that's not an option, websites such as sheetmusicplus.com, jwpepper.com, and musicnote.net can be a big help. Just search for common music publishers (Hal Leonard, for example) and see if they have online store fronts.

A cylindrical brass instrument is like the trumpet. It's not literally cylinder-shaped, but the pipe width stays constant for a while before flaring out as the bell. Its shape is the reason for its brassier sound.

A conical instrument is more like the French horn. Again, it's not really a cone, but its pipes are constantly growing wider throughout the instrument. That's why it sounds so full and rich.

1 You did not say the name there is the baritone sax the baritone in low brass

2 Well the baritone sax is a little heavy but not mutch really because you can't play while standing and if you do you wont be able to hit the right notes.

3 The baritone in low brass is not heavy at all i play trombone and my friend plays baritone and i know how to play and its not heavy can easily be lifted with one hand with a good grip of course. Tubas are not even heavy either no brass instrument is really heavy to be honest.

No. The tuba plays a full octave below the baritone (maybe two octaves, I can't remember). Also, baritone players typically read treble cleff music, but tuba players read bass cleff, and baritone is not a concert pitch instrument. On the other hand, the euphonium is a concert instrument and plays bass cleff music. However, that said, some baritone players can read bass cleff music.

Total length including neck loop is over 5 feet of tubing but standing height after bends is just over 3 feet. Weight depends on quality of manufacture; usually between 12 and 15 pounds (though it feels heavier, and carrying it around in a case, it feels like about 30 pounds!). Diameter of the end of the bell also varies a bit by manufacturer. In terms of size, although called "baritone" saxophone, it is a bass instrument, with a range that goes just slightly lower than a bass clarinet and ends just one whole step higher than a bassoon.

The Nirschl Euphoniums made after 2009 were made in Brazil at the Weril Brass factory and yes, they are good euphoniums. They are well made and built heavy for a nice dark sound like the old English made Besson horns.

I would not recommend the Nirschls that were initially made in India.

The latest Nirschls made in Brazil were well thought out, designed and engineered in Indiana and Germany.

The construction of a Euphonium is simalar to the tuba. It is a brass instrument, and usaually only has three top action valves. Some of the intermediate student models have a fourth top-valve.

If you have a conventionally-made baritone horn, you should be able to unscrew the tops of the valves by turning counter-clockwise. After doing that, take them out and put some oil on them, as much as you deem necessary.

It's available from Hans Pizka:

http://www.pizka.de/3-4orch.htm

well it really depends on how strong you are. when you first hold it it seems quite heavy but trust me i have been playing one for many years and it is actually much lighter. so really there is no definite answer but if i am completely honest the case for one is heavier than the actual thing so if you pick up the case and get scared then dont be because the euphonium isn't actually that heavy. (it is definitely harder to play standing up though because of its weight so do be aware)

G sharp is the same as A flat which is 1st valve. If it's the high g sharp above f you should be tightening your lips. If it's the low one below low A you should be widening your lips from each other.

Sound is produced by placing the lips on the mouthpiece and blowing while vibrating the lips. The larger the mouthpiece, the lower the sound of the instrument. By tightening or loosening the lips, it is possible to produce different notes, but only so many notes can be produced this way, so you press down the valves to create more notes. See related link for more information.

It's difficult to quantify this for brass instruments due to the fact that "pedal tones" can, in the hands of a skilled player, extend the range below that a novice is capable of producing, and also some players can reach higher notes than others. The range is normally considered to be from E2 to D5.

According to the horn-u-copia web site (see related link below), your Imperial euphonium was manufactured in 1975.

There are about 80 pieces that use euphonium in orchestra, but maybe only ten that are played with any frequency. Euphonium players aren't typically paid on the regular roster of a professional orchestra, but may be called in when the orchestra plays one of the pieces that calls for the instrument.

It was originally intended as an instrument for German marching bands, but spread to British brass band music, where it remains a staple in any ensemble. It is still used frequently in marching and military ensembles internationally.

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It weighs 8-12 pounds depending on the modal, and make.

Bb or F

Quite easily if you don't mind a little side work. Here is what you can do.

1. Look up some piano music for gabriels oboe (that's easy part)

2. Now most of the piano parts should have the melody note-for-note in the top treble hand

3. Take said melody and read it just as if you were reading B-flat Treble euphonium

4. If you don't read treble, then you can take the long route, download finale notepad, write in the melody line in the treble clef, and have it transpose it into a friendly bass clef.

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ok this guy does know there are only 7 positions on a euph. right

I'm not even sure what this question means. However, I can tell you how to improve your sound a bit.

Sometimes I find my fingers have slipped over and I am playing the wrong valves, which does not help!

Next, I found I put a slide back the wrong way around and it would not go in completely. That does not help either.

Once I cleaned my valves and forgot what order they'd come out: it took me ages to look at them really carefully judging against where the holes were and put them in a row accordingly and then put them back in the right places.

Next, it takes a long time to develop the right muscles to play each note. So you play a note one day, and can't, and then you go to bed and the next day you try again, and like magic, you can! (very exciting!) Until you get to high G which I have been stuck on for about six weeks and am only getting the hang of now.

Next, you need to learn to breath properly. You need to use the good part of your lungs and not the dregs, so you need to fill up a lot and often, and breath with your mouth open - hard to remember.

Then you need to breath with your diagphram. I am only just learning to feel with these muscles; it feels a bit like throwing up but it is very exciting when you suddenly realise you can feel how to do it a bit. Lungs alone aren't really enough, you need the extra oomph.

Then there is the attack: you need to start with a good 'T' sound, and when it gets really fast you need to learn to double tongue, which apparently involves saying "tee Kee Tee Kee" or some such but I have not got that far yet really.

Some bits you don't attack: they involve lip slurring. You can tell a lip slur because the notes are joined by a bracket. But I've not yet learned to distinguish between a phrase and a lip slur since I am a complete novice and slightly dyslexic.

Then you need to relax a bit. If you listen to the euphonium in a band piece, it often sounds quite quiet and causal, like it's no big deal, like you can just reel this fantastic stuff out in the background with no effort at all. The euphoniumist is on some other planet from everybody else just doing his or her own thing, but not in a flashy way. If you relax you can manage the breathing better.

Basically, when you start you sound like a pharting elephant, that's normal. I am five months in now and I think I sound pretty cool by now. Only another eight years and grades to go!

It's pretty easy... but everyone is different. It depends on if you know what you are doing and if its a baritone sax or just a regular baritone. This question is more of an opinion.

There is a such thing as a baritone mute. It is rare to find them in any store and if you see someone using one, they have usually constructed it themselves. Most mutes for baritone look like a very large practice mute for trumpet, and are rarely used by any baritone players. Baritones with curved bells(e.g. bell front concert horn) make it dificult to use mutes, as well as the fact that most Baritone/Euphonium have different bell radii, making a standard mute hard to make.