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Re: alternative instrument for a horn player

To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: alternative instrument for a horn player
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 1998 18:50:19 +0100
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From: Adrian Drover <saxhorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 22 April 1998 23:15
Subject: Re: alternative instrument for a horn player


>On 21 Apr, Peter Younghusband <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Eh? how can a flugel belong to the tuba family? Forgive my ignorance
>> please but I am at a loss how this can be......
>
>Because in bore size and sound, it is related to the euphonium, just as
>the cornet is related to the baritone horn, and trumpet is related to the
>trombone.
>
>The euphonium is a tenor tuba, therefore the flugel is a soprano tuba.
>
>Adrian

And likewise, the euphonium is a bass flugel horn - as we all discovered
when Steven Mead publicised Ponchielli's Concerto per Flicorno Basso
(Concerto for Bass Flugel Horn).

Alec

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