[TPIN] Bass trombone (for tuba) in a brass quintet?

[Brian Frederiksen]

Interesting responses, not what I expected to hear but interesting.

First off, I'm one of the tuba-lurkers on the list. When I play a quintet, I 
bring a tuba and a smaller valve instrument - valve bone, bass, trumpet or 
euphonium. The bone player brings a tenor and bass bone. When it comes to 
most anything from the Baroque or earlier, we usually switch parts using a 
bass bone on the bottom and whatever horn I use playing the bone part. This 
seems to lighten up things helping out the trumpets. It also changes the 
sound characteristic so the quintet does not sound the same for everything.

Here's one for you. There are times that it works out better going with a 
conical sound where the trumpet parts are played on a cornet - what do you 
think of that one??


Brian Frederiksen
WindSong Press
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