BHSBone Posted October 21, 2006 Posted October 21, 2006 At Bowie we tried so hard to impliment something where during summer band camp the baritone who held their horn up best that day got to switch horns with the trumpet or mello who held theirs up the worst. While this happened once i'm convinced that this may just be a way to encourage us lazy baritones to hold our horns up and maybe stop those pansy trumpets and mellos from complaining so much. Quote
MartinHorn Posted October 22, 2006 Posted October 22, 2006 Kinda on the subject, have you seen the baritones that you rest on your shoulders like a contrabass? Duncanville is marching those this year. Quote
Valsair Posted October 22, 2006 Posted October 22, 2006 MartinHorn said: Kinda on the subject, have you seen the baritones that you rest on your shoulders like a contrabass? Duncanville is marching those this year. I've heard of them. "Convertabile" euphoniums/baritones, right? Should look pretty cool, actually. Quote stop those pansy trumpets and mellos from complaining so much. qft. Quote
HHSBaSsTrOmBoNe'09 Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 Hmmm.... Baritones with out the extra arm stress and bad posture... sounds good... I only know the posture thing because i marched the Dynasty brand Euphonium last season and part of this season and wow if you have bad posture it will kill you... So I salute to whoever made thouse convertable baritones they are a pretty kewl thing... But... do they still sound the same as a regular Baritone?? but it also it gives the little brass instruments more reason to complain about the weight of their instruments. Quote
T-ratbowieband Posted February 2, 2007 Posted February 2, 2007 I like baritones. I can hold up a baritone for about 30 minutes, and my arms are weaker than twigs. Quote
Higgins Posted February 6, 2007 Posted February 6, 2007 T-ratbowieband said: I like baritones. I can hold up a baritone for about 30 minutes, and my arms are weaker than twigs. Wtballs, 30 minutes? I call shenanigans, how can you do that and still have arms?? Quote
t3hZm4n Posted February 6, 2007 Posted February 6, 2007 HIGGINS!!! Hi hi hi, hi, h-hi... hi hi. >______> Quote
Higgins Posted February 7, 2007 Posted February 7, 2007 t3hZm4n said: HIGGINS!!! Hi hi hi, hi, h-hi... hi hi. >______> HI ZACH, HIHI. HI, hih, Hihi hi hi! Seriously though, I can't believe that someone could hold a marching baritone up for 30 minutes straight. And I'm talking without faltering at all. Quote
BowieTBMongoose Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 no, its true, we've had to do it before and we'll have to do it again Quote
Higgins Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Heh, I actually know it's possible, I've ALMOST held mine up for half an hour straight, but I didn't feel like killing my arms anymore, so I stopped. Quote
EuphToth Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 Next year, I'm hoping that the section leaders will put ankle weights on their horns, as well as all of the freshman. This would make 1) freshman stronger 2) section leaders stronger, and 3) be a very easy diciplinary action- just change the troublemaker's horn with a freshman's! Wouldn't they feel smart then? Quote
crazyjakeup Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 using ankle weights really does help... Quote
MartinHorn Posted February 15, 2007 Posted February 15, 2007 In a perfect world we would all use ankle weights, and they would start out French Horns on Trumpets, and many other wonderful things. Quote
crazyjakeup Posted February 16, 2007 Posted February 16, 2007 so im super pissed off cuz we finnaly got new silver tubas(even though i play t-pet) but the funny thing is they will not use them till the next state year... another thing that im mad about is that next year my brother ( a trombone ) will be the baritone section leader... he will only be a junior... i wasnt a section leader till i was a senior ... Quote
T-ratbowieband Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 I used an ankle weight most of 2006. It helped. Like EuphToth said, if i become section leader i'm bringing a whole box of them. Quote
t3hZm4n Posted March 17, 2007 Posted March 17, 2007 In response to Travis and a few other people's posts: OMG TROMBONES > EUPHONIUMS! STOP YOUR LIEEZZZZ!!!! </my narrow-minded, trombone-biased point of view> Quote
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