What is an ALTO/TENOR HORN? Let's Find Out!

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@mrblumpkin. Год назад

Never thought I'd see an instrument that a euphonium could make fun of

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Hey now, you act like euphoniums are on the bottom of the totem pole but they’re like the coolest brass instrument

@mrblumpkin. Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass I'm a tuba player and I joke with my euphoniums about this. They get some cool parts, but I naturally make fun of them

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Fair enough. I play euphonium in wind ensemble and basically dunk on the tubas constantly.

@jamier65551 Год назад

As a euph, real af

@annabellesimmons4369 Год назад

i’m the only euph in my band bc our senior left so i learned euph (from trombone, the actual best) so we would have one and they have MUCH more fun parts than trombone. trombones jus gets some fun lines here and there but euph actually gets some fun stuff a lot of the time😍😍

@CarlosTrompetista Год назад

In Spain these instruments have been traditionally called "onnoven". Although the origin of this name is not clear, it's probably caused by a bad translation of "horn in Eb" (the "h" is not pronounced in Spanish). Nowadays it's really hard to find them in our wind/concert bands, maybe by the absence of specific repertoire

@itsjustjosema Год назад

Pero eso no es un bombardino? XD

@CarlosTrompetista Год назад

@@itsjustjosema no, el bombardino tiene un taladro cónico, y generalmente es una 3a ó 4a más grave (de Mib a Do-Sib). La boquilla también es más ancha, con una copa más profunda, y emite un sonido redondo y cálido. El onnoven, en cambio, produce un sonido más brillante, y un poco más débil.

@itsjustjosema Год назад

@@CarlosTrompetista aja, ya veo. Yo soy clarinetista y no me muevo mucho en ese tipo de instrumentos. Gracias :)

@ericpalacios920 Год назад

In Mexico these are called "charchetas" and are basically exclusively used for off-beats and ornaments in banda music. I have no idea where the name comes from!

@flipper3954 4 месяца назад

I think someone else mentioned this, but in Mexico they are called ‘Charchetas’ and are traditionally used in ‘Banda’ music, but now have been very popularized in ‘corridos bélicos’!! Very cool!!

@random_foo9712 Год назад

As a Mexican I can confirm that alto horns give a nice touch to our music such as banda music or sinaloense. The alto horn always sounds good with the tuba/sousaphone. It’s the perfect combo. I am a sousaphone player.

@octavioramirez7501 Год назад

Yesss I was looking for somone to comment about that

@staffeando4099 Год назад

Armonillero aquí 🙋🏾‍♂️

@saidoof9369 Год назад

Yes I also like when the tenor horn plays fast at a banda

@random_foo9712 Год назад

@@staffeando4099 saludos compa

@random_foo9712 Год назад

@@saidoof9369 Yep that’s what I like when they start playing fast and start putting their own touch of articulations.

@villvall 10 месяцев назад

IS THIS A VIDEO WITH MY INSTRUMENT? I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE LETS GOOOOO

@formulafish1536 Год назад

I AM SEEING A VIDEO OF MY INSTRUMENT!!!! I CANT BELIEVE IT!!!

@rodneytrotter8436 Год назад

This is probably the easiest most fun brass instroment ever

@LouieHodgson 10 месяцев назад

Yes I agree but its a bit obscure

@Alduintheworldeater 8 месяцев назад

As a trumpet player your probably not wrong

@LouieHodgson 8 месяцев назад

@@Alduintheworldeater im a trumpet player too and Its a lot easier than trumpet

@Alduintheworldeater 8 месяцев назад

@@LouieHodgson I would think so

@LouieHodgson-sg4nu 7 месяцев назад

yes you're correct

@SimmerGamer-vq9hq Год назад

I Play that instrument and its a beatiful instrument too

@bassbriar9276 Год назад

In México is called "Charcheta", or in english it doesn't mean anything but you can translate as "Charchet" But it's real spanish name is "Saxor".

@seth094978 Год назад

Fun fact: F. E. Olds made alto horns in the key of F! Apparently you could get a W shaped replacement main tuning slide that would lower it to Eb. They also have front pistons instead of top action, as I prefer.

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

That sounds more similar to the altonium by King, but pretty cool!

@seth094978 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass The major difference between the two is that the King Altonium used a horn mouthpiece and the Olds uses an alto horn one.

@harwinderkaur4718 5 месяцев назад

I play baratone heheheheheeeee

@JuanCastillo-wv9su Год назад

My valve trombone was gifted by my uncle and he used to be in a Mexican band, when i got it i was confused for a while because i play baritone and the valve configuration where not the same it took me 4 hours to realize it was on the key of C

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Ah yes, the C valve trombone. What a nightmare. I can’t imagine playing a C-pitched instrument in bass clef. Or does it read treble like in the brass band convention?

@random_foo9712 Год назад

Valved trombones are similar to alto horns. The open notes of a valved trombone are identical to some alto horn notes.

@random_foo9712 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass I think it's bass. But in my opinion it has a beautiful sound. Some Mexican trombonists prefer the c version instead of the Bb one

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

I definitely have a soft spot for the valve trombone tone too, but I can’t say I know anything about the tone of a C valve trombone versus a Bb.

@JuanCastillo-wv9su Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass my worse my nightmare.....is on the key of c but still plays base cleff notes that thing makes me wanna commit arson

@mortadelas Год назад

As a Greek, you can find these horns in every single municipality-owned marching band. They are used to play the drum parts, but they sound pretty good when they get something to play.

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Very cool! I had no idea.

@minasmigkosgymnastics8742 Год назад

Yeah and we also call them “Jennys”

@mortadelas Год назад

@@minasmigkosgymnastics8742 YEAA EXACTLY!! Even French horns we call Jennys. Why is that though? I never asked my conductor.

@minasmigkosgymnastics8742 Год назад

@@mortadelas Hahah no the French horns are called “French horns” actually 😆 It’s the first time I heard someone calling them by name “Jennys”

@mortadelas Год назад

@@minasmigkosgymnastics8742 Here, every horn is a Jenny if you’re brave enough.

@rodrigo8842 Год назад

My hair when I wake up:

@KansaiSamurai Год назад

I played this for a short time in my elementary school band. The teacher called it an E flat horn. I soon graduated to the E flat tuba.

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Eb horn is a valid (and probably the single most universal) way to refer to this instrument. The alto-tenor naming discrepancy makes me want to pull my hair out, especially because I think the Brits have it utterly wrong. Anyway, enough soapboxing for now. I LOVE the Eb tuba! I have heard professional tubists say there's "no such thing" as a good Eb, but I think it just takes someone who's grown up with one and knows how to give it the right kind of love and care in their approach to playing it.

@tenor1190 Год назад

Same for me 😮😮. Eb tuba is much more my taste

@sophie6666 Год назад

Finally another tenor horn player

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

I play the full brass family with varying degrees of success and tenor is towards the bottom of the list in terms of my current skill level but I’ll definitely continue to play it and work on my chops!

@Klara_S. Год назад

Tbh I thought baritone horns were called tenor horns in the uk

@rodentrailgun Год назад

Are the buttons like trumpet because i saw him use first button for the first few notes

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Yep, same valve combinations in terms of written pitches as the trumpet.

@otmq 4 месяца назад

The Mexican/Latin bands that use these call them “Charcheta”. There are usually 2-3 players on them in the section, often playing the root, 3rd, and 5th of the chord, in various inversions. In fast 3/4 tunes, they produce a frenetic and absolutely constant “Boop-Boop, Boop-Boop, Boop-Boop, Boop-Boop!!” on beats 2 and 3!

@samcook1027 Год назад

Used to play the tenor horn it's really nice to play and sounds decent

@cloudymocha3174 Год назад

Can you explain keys? Does it naturally play E flats? I just don’t understand what’s different between a C instrument and a Bb instrument

@charliewhelan9488 Год назад

If you write out music for an Eb horn, if you write a C, it will sound like an Eb on a piano

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

A brass instrument’s “pitch” or “key” determines the series of notes it can play with no valves pressed down. In ascending order, a Bb trumpet can play the sounding pitches Bb-F-Bb-D, etc. without valves, an Eb alto horn can play Eb-Bb-Eb-G, an old G bugle will play G-D-G-B, etc. These notes are called the “harmonic series,” which is always a major arpeggio centered around the note in the instrument’s name-Bb trumpet, F horn, etc.

@timothysanduleac2703 Год назад

Interesting. In Eastern Europe we call these “Alto Horn”. A tenor horn is in Bb, like the Baritone and Euphonium, but a slightly different shape.

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

That’s the naming convention that I prefer, but the Brits insist on calling this a tenor.

@cccason9165 Год назад

In Australia it is tenor horn and its in e flat

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

@@cccason9165 Yeah, because the Aussies took on the Brits’ silly naming convention.

@eliasaraujo9082 Год назад

No Brasil foi muito usado nas antigas bandas filarmônicas , é chamado de Saxhorn In Brazil it was very used in the old philharmonic bands, it is called Saxhorn

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

It is one of the instruments in the saxhorn family, but that term is not quite as precise as alto horn.

@ainsleighsmith8587 Год назад

Omg I’ve never heard of another Eb instrument other than the alto and baritone saxes

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

The brass family has several! Eb trumpet, Eb soprano cornet, this Eb alto/tenor horn, Eb alto trombone, and the Eb bass tuba! All very cool instruments!

@wallpaper208_ Год назад

Alto clarinet

@unfazedgamer9891 10 месяцев назад

Brass band instruments go crazy

@Timelord286 10 месяцев назад

I play Baritone to and 100% love this and improve it!

@SamuelPlaysBrass 10 месяцев назад

Please actually read the title and the captions when you watch. This is not a baritone. It is a different instrument that is higher pitched than the baritone.

@Timelord286 10 месяцев назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass ohhhh

@ARNMUS1 6 месяцев назад

Here in Lithuania thers alot of alt horns i plau with one too

@Skipatronic 8 месяцев назад

I've played that piece before. Fantasy on British Sea Songs or something like that

@SamuelPlaysBrass 8 месяцев назад

That’s the one!

@planetb1ue168 Год назад

They used that in the early 1900's Jazz bands

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Really? I've never seen that. Any particular bands? I know the Stan Kenton band used mellophoniums but those are very different and in the key of F.

@trumpetaceman7806 Год назад

It’s used in Mexican banda music

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Yes, I said this in the video captions.

@xTintenherz 9 месяцев назад

I played that shit as a child. Kinda miss it tbh

@user-bm6xs1lj3p 8 месяцев назад

I own a horn kinda like this. It's an Austrian horn but I can't find anything about it on Google besides the fact that it's an upright bb baritone

@Musicalssssss Год назад

I play the tenor and the french horn. 🤣

@treble_exists 9 месяцев назад

Same lol

@DresedDuck 6 месяцев назад

i played that instrument before now i play the french horn

@Twigster90 Год назад

Being a brass person as well, is there a reason why you used 23 combination on the high Eb? It seems to have the same harmonic series as a Bb trumpet from the music you have displayed and your valve combinations. I'm just curious if it's something odd in this instrument's harmonic series that makes it so you have to play the high Eb as 23 and not just 2 like you would on a normal Bb Trumpet?

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

That’s a really good question! I’ve found instruments in the keys of C or Eb are naturally a little less in-tune than Bb. For instance, on Bb trumpet you almost always plays open on E and 2nd on Eb, but on C and Eb trumpet it’s more standard practice to use 12 and 23 for those notes respectively.

@WatermelonEnthusiast Год назад

I seriously need to know whether trombone timo is an alt or side account cuz he uses your content alottt And gets a lot of views

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

I don’t think Timo’s ever “used my content”-what do you mean exactly?

@WatermelonEnthusiast Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass perhaps I may have seen the wrong user and after double checking it wasn’t timo, my apologies. Though I do remember before I found your channel someone had you playing the cornet as their video,But that is irrelevant now as the user stopped. Also, I wanted to say how underrated your channel was. One of my best friends growing up in middle school and still today said how hard it is to be skilled with trumpet.

@MatiasLunaMusica Год назад

In argentina is used widely in marching bands

@Im.Devolving7 8 месяцев назад

That's a saxhorn made by Adolphe- Adolphe sax! Of course! Who else would have made it!

@SamuelPlaysBrass 8 месяцев назад

Yep, the Eb alto and Bb baritone horns of the brass band are just about the last remaining modern saxhorns. Even they have evolved though. A feature of saxhorns is that they have a mostly cylindrical leadpipe and the tuning happens before the valve section, whereas this modern design has a shorter and more conical leadpipe, with the tuning slide being positioned after the valves.

@Im.Devolving7 8 месяцев назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass that's very interesting! Thank you for telling me that!

@textgraphic9479 Год назад

Cool!

@todcroft6435 Год назад

I really want one of these

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

They’re lots of fun! You sort of get hooked on playing alto if you start.

@todcroft6435 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass I already play like all the insturments tho

@Spartan-hg7ej 8 месяцев назад

I have these at my highschool and I asked my teacher what they were and he basically said they were smaller tubas in a way at least I think that's what he said I may be recalling that wrong but I find them interesting

@SamuelPlaysBrass 8 месяцев назад

They look a little like tubas and I think they technically evolved from the same family of instruments in the 1800s but they sound pretty different from tubas!

@Spartan-hg7ej 8 месяцев назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass I've never seen them before these and quite a few brass instruments I would've considered just trumpets earlier in life and other thing I now know about and it's probably not even half of them, very cool to continue learning about cool things I could play some day

@calebgamingyt709 Год назад

I know you play all brass but what was your first instrument you learned to play ?

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

My first/main instrument was the trumpet. I’m glad that’s what I started on because if my main had been a lower instrument, playing the trumpet would have proved extremely challenging.

@bandito1007 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrassI'm also glad that I play the trumpet because if I want to play on a lower instrument the fingerings are the same in the treble clef and I can get those high notes

@anekdotaDONTOUANEKDOTOU1 3 месяца назад

Hi , can you send me the ring tones for the song the last of the Mohicans???? Please

@JulesTheDog Год назад

Cool

@terryberry3882 Год назад

Can you play a baritone

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Definitely! There’ll be baritone and euphonium content coming soon, both under the Videos and Shorts tab on my channel.

@Frankschnitzelsucker Год назад

Mini euphonium/baritone?

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

It’s from the same category of brass instruments as the baritone, so I guess that’s a valid assessment.

@switchkid10xbox 10 месяцев назад

Cool I play tenor saxophone

@broncohutchings3451 Год назад

hahaah! love it!

@NobodyAtAll1021 Год назад

So its an alto version of the baritone?

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Pretty much!

@RicardoMartinez-yp1pq Год назад

in which style do they occupy it in Eastern Europe? greetings from Mexico, here the wind bands and even string groups use it to make harmony

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Unfortunately it also serves a background role in Eastern European ensembles. The UK is one of the only cultures to recognize the alto’s potential as a solo or melodic instrument. Very disappointing. Almost everywhere else in the world, it either sustains chord tones in slower music or plays constant offbeats in livelier, more folk-like music.

@formulafish1536 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass thankfully here in Australia we have British style Brass Bands, so Tenor Hornists actually have a use. And because of that, I actually managed to get myself into a couple of Concert bands on French Horn parts.

@random_foo9712 Год назад

Yeahhh

@SpartanChief2277 Год назад

This instrument in banda or corridos belicos 🔥👍

@nathannoregreb138 Год назад

I thought it was callrd a saxhorn...oh and you're very cuteʕ⁠っ⁠•⁠ᴥ⁠•⁠ʔ⁠っ

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

It is part of the saxhorn family. The saxhorn family includes instruments such as the cornet, alto horn, and baritone horn.

@peternaryd_operasinger Год назад

Great Samuel!😁👍👏👏👏

@bens7622 Год назад

What mouthpiece does it use? I play trombone and have always been interested in a valve instrument like this.

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

You’d be looking to play the baritone or euphonium, not alto horn. This instrument uses a mouthpiece sized in between trumpet and trombone.

@bens7622 Год назад

Oh ok thanks

@keithshockley3443 8 месяцев назад

Now, see that played on an alto trombone with no valves or triggers. That is the real challenge. The Chuck Norris challenge. Trombone Timo would have no problem as he transcribes high alto trombone and French Horn parts and blasts through them with full fortissimo. 😂😂😂😅😅😅

@SamuelPlaysBrass 8 месяцев назад

Okay, cool. Not everything needs to be a challenge or a competition. There’s a time and place for everything.

@keithshockley3443 8 месяцев назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass It was just a joke. Some guys like Trombone Timo like to mess with the baritone/euphonium and French horn players. lol

@urvhalt 3 месяца назад

? That range is very easy on the Eb alto trombone. No Bb-attachment needed.

@AlbertonJiggletip 6 месяцев назад

The most British song ever

@GZMES4life Год назад

I know what It is my band uses it and cornet, s

@lavaguanix6804 Год назад

So it’s similar to a mello ?

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Not really. Sure, somewhat similar range and their tone qualities aren’t entirely different, but the mellophone is in F, has a forward-facing bell with a much larger flare, and uses a much smaller and shallower mouthpiece. The mellophone is better suited to the high register and generally sounds best when there are many of them playing in unison. The alto horn (of which there are three in the brass band) serves much better as a solo instrument. They serve different roles in their respective ensembles, even if each “imitates” the F horn to some extent.

@thebmxboys3204 Год назад

my band just calls it the baby baritone

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Eh, close enough.

@IamTyRee7 9 месяцев назад

Heyy

@each_heart_to_waver 10 месяцев назад

Alto Horn : A malnourished cousin of Euphonium

@Foreverbella Год назад

It's a mini tuba

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Nah. That’s the euphonium you’re thinking of. This has narrower tubing that doesn’t flare out nearly as much as a tuba or euphonium would.

@karolyhorvath001 Год назад

it is the same as the trumpet?

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

It’s in a different (lower) key, so no. However, it reads music the same way and uses the same fingerings, so there are similarities.

@ErickaJamess Год назад

THIS IS WHAT WAS AT THE ARTS SCHOOL THAT WAS PREFORMING AT OUR SCHOOL I THOUGHT IT WAS A PICCOLO TUBA

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

There are lots of instruments that are oriented like tubas but smaller--alto horns, baritones, euphoniums, etc.

@ErickaJamess Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass ive never seen them because my school only has trumpets trombones baritones and tubas

@Ron............. Год назад

I am plaiyng on Tenor Horn, but looks somehow else than that. What am I playing on is much bigger.

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Perhaps you are playing on the German tenorhorn, which is lower-pitched in Bb. I prefer the German naming convention. My sincere belief is that the instrument I am playing on in this video is an alto horn (althorn), but British bands insist on incorrectly calling it a tenor.

@thefabuloussporcu317 11 месяцев назад

Rqndom thing that no one eill care about but im a scottish piper and this sounds scarily close to castle rock road.

@JibbyChip Год назад

Yo that’s the exact instrument I play but a bit bigger and silver

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Are you sure it’s an alto horn then? Pretty sure what you’re describing is a baritone.

@JibbyChip Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass yes I play a baritone, it’s just I’ve never found one that looks like mine, they all look so weird

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

@@JibbyChip ooh if this alto horn looks like your baritone and you haven’t seen many others like it, then chances are you play a British style baritone! Look up a Yamaha YBH-301, should be a similar style.

@JibbyChip Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass ok… but mine is Yamaha, the brand is “Schagerl” BH800S Edit: Yes that does appear to be most similar to mine (about exactly the same if you will), but mine is a different brand

@WatchDogNeverSleeps Год назад

US - Baby Baritone

@jomarluke 3 месяца назад

Wait, where is it used in Eastern Europe? I'm in the Balkans, and I've hardly seen any of these (despite owning a bell front one).

@SamuelPlaysBrass 3 месяца назад

You might occasionally see oval-shaped ones (like the Kaiserbariton but smaller) in regions like Bavaria, Ukraine, or Russia. They’re not terribly common, but I spent a couple years playing on a fun little Kyiv-made oval rotary alto.

@jomarluke 3 месяца назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass yeah, I've seen those. I want one! I see a lot of Bohemian (oval) baritones/tenorhorns out here in Macedonia. Check out Uska Kan from Macedonia.

@ElMamaHuevo15 6 месяцев назад

The RU-vid channel extra concert band instruments writes alto horn parts for concert band

@SamuelPlaysBrass 6 месяцев назад

Very cool! Thanks for showing me their channel. Writing for these nonstandard instruments is an underappreciated art.

@aly_varner Год назад

Is that the same key as a trumpet or a tuba

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Neither. Trumpet, trombone, baritone, euphonium, and tuba are all in the key of B-flat. This is in the key of E-flat.

@aly_varner Год назад

Oh okay thanks I play Sax

@tenor1190 Год назад

Tubas come in 4 standard keys, this is in Eb, so it’s in the same key as the Eb tuba. It’s closer in pitch to the trumpet though, it’s fundamental is a 5th below.

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

@@tenor1190 for the purposes of beginning band tubas are almost always in BBb here in the US. No point in getting into the weeds for the sake of a rudimentary discussion.

@tenor1190 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass yea true enough, but it might be valuable to other people, if not the original poster. Besides, I reckon it’s important to mention since Eb tubas are so popular in the traditions where tenor/alto horns are used. It wasn’t a correction to your comment either, I just wanted to add a little more nuisance.

@souzaeltubero1487 Год назад

It’s more common now in Mexican music we got all sorts of stuff with alto horn now❤

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

I did mention this in the video captions. Glad to see it happening.

@octavioramirez7501 Год назад

Frrr we put it wit accordions, guitars, and banda

@Nikoskibidi Год назад

What mouthpiece size

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

About halfway between a trumpet and trombone mouthpiece. Very awkward if you’re not used to it.

@CuzZ4life Год назад

Alto

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

…alright?

@thetheoryofphantomsdelta2779 Год назад

it looks like a british style baritone

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Correct. Both are used as harmony instruments in the British brass band.

@adelymylife3405 Год назад

In France, we call it "la pichote" 😂

@lecorbeau8113 Год назад

You're killing it my brother !

@Nyalcoholic Год назад

i might be one of the last surviving fans of these

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Always glad to see some alto horn appreciation. They’re still alive and well in mariachi and brass band culture though!

@Dan-ww5kv Год назад

I uses to play that then switched to baritone I don't know the full name

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Out of curiosity, did you grow up playing in a British brass band? I rarely hear of people starting on an alto/tenor horn in any other scenario.

@sebastian6896 Год назад

Tiny trumpet euphonium

@nicholasfreedman866 Год назад

Brass alto saxophone?

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

I mean, they are in the same key, but that’s where the similarities end

@JackDemp719 Год назад

It is in the same key as a b flat trumpet

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

No, I said in the on-screen captions that this instrument is in the key of Eb, making it lower than the Bb trumpet.

@JackDemp719 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass the song

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

@@JackDemp719 regardless of the song, the alto horn in Eb always reads a key signature that’s different from the Bb trumpet. For flat keys, one less flat. For sharp keys, one more sharp.

@gavinhauser3430 Год назад

I have the same baritone

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

It’s not a baritone. The whole point of this video is to educate people about what this instrument is: an alto horn.

@kare14drums Год назад

I call it a mini tuba

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

That’s a euphonium you’re thinking of.

@kare14drums Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass I mean it looks like a mini tuba

@scfire_trucks4878 Год назад

EUPHONIUM IS THE BEST BRASS INSTRUMENT

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

I agree, but you know this isn’t a euphonium, right?

@scfire_trucks4878 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass yes,I know

@nickgibson133 Год назад

Bro leave some women for the rest of us 🙏🏻🙏🏻

@aaronleblanc9276 Год назад

we called it a pecker horn in the army band

@angelinsailo6221 9 месяцев назад

Heiha

@Aidenjolley09 8 месяцев назад

I thought it was a tiny tuba

@SamuelPlaysBrass 8 месяцев назад

You’re not the only one to think that. I made this video so people could learn about this lesser-known instrument and know that it’s not just a tuba that spent too long in the dryer.

@djhaynes136 Год назад

I name thee “Alto trombone with pistons”

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Haha, in theory that’s true, but the alto horn has a bit more tonal nuance and softness to the sound than an alto trombone, much like the baritone horn versus the tenor trombone.

@Teladian2 8 месяцев назад

Or Also a Peck Horn

@SamuelPlaysBrass 8 месяцев назад

I never liked that term. This horn can do plenty more than just peck.

@user-pm7ny2xt1k 11 месяцев назад

soprano euphonium????

@SamuelPlaysBrass 11 месяцев назад

Kind of, but less conical than a euphonium.

@djdemonic666 Год назад

It's also called a baritone horn.

@SamuelPlaysBrass Год назад

Please read the on-screen captions before jumping to conclusions. This is not true. I specified in the captions that the alto or tenor horn is higher pitched than the baritone. It is in Eb rather than Bb.

@djdemonic666 Год назад

@@SamuelPlaysBrass Aight brotha don't gotta be a dipshit about it. I kinda liked you, now I dont because you show zero respect for others

@user-ik8yw6gx5h 11 месяцев назад

In Russia we call it an alto

@SamuelPlaysBrass 11 месяцев назад

I believe everybody does besides Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.

@nehemiascabrera2503 2 месяца назад

what is the size of your mouthpiece

@SamuelPlaysBrass 2 месяца назад

This one had no markings but if I remember correctly it was a copy of a Denis Wick 2 or 3.

@rietta4238 Год назад

italiani che canzone avete pensato che fosse all’inizio? 😂😂😂

@theoschmitt3037 10 месяцев назад

Bist du mit deinen Haaren mal versehentlich in den Achalltrichter geraten.. . .als du als Neuling noch nicht wusstest, dass man bläst und nicht saugt😂