I love these posts. I have no idea what you're talking about, because I've never played a brass or wind instrument in my life. But this is just so goshdarn interesting.
There's a picture of a contrabass bugle in the Wikipedia article. But it sounds as if yours is old-school; they've evolved since then to have more valves.
I've never actually seen a written lease at my current place, so I don't know.
For the new place, the house rules state that musical instruments may not be played in a loud manor [sic] between 10PM and 8AM. I guess 1 theory is that it is ok during the daytime.
We'll only have neighbors along one wall and above us, anyway, and the walls are thick plaster and the floors are concrete. No one will complain.
Pitched in... G? I've been playing in concert bands since fourth grade, took three years of music theory in college, took orchestration and arranging courses in my first grad school, have a Master's in music education, and taught band for three years (including lots of older British scores)... and I have never heard of such a thing. Does Getzen know that sometimes instrumentalists have to play with other instrumentalists? Like in bands and stuff? Where music is written down and played aloud? I don't think Finale has a preset for transposition in G. How deliciously obscure.
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They're only 140 years or so behind the curve set by every other brasswind instrument family.
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Like anybody in North America even knows what a cornet is anymore. The trumpet monoculture is almost fully realized.
The modern-day flugelhorn is actually one of the last remaining vestiges of the Saxhorn family. The true flugelhorn is nearly extinct.
I'll never own a double-belled euphonium, because nobody makes them anymore.
Alas.
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For the new place, the house rules state that musical instruments may not be played in a loud manor [sic] between 10PM and 8AM. I guess 1 theory is that it is ok during the daytime.
We'll only have neighbors along one wall and above us, anyway, and the walls are thick plaster and the floors are concrete. No one will complain.
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Pitched in... G? I've been playing in concert bands since fourth grade, took three years of music theory in college, took orchestration and arranging courses in my first grad school, have a Master's in music education, and taught band for three years (including lots of older British scores)... and I have never heard of such a thing. Does Getzen know that sometimes instrumentalists have to play with other instrumentalists? Like in bands and stuff? Where music is written down and played aloud? I don't think Finale has a preset for transposition in G. How deliciously obscure.
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