Hardest part about switching

[bariphonium]

In my freshman year, I switched from trumpet to baritone/euphonium. The main reason for me was that my lips had grown too large to give me a decent range on the trumpet (which kept me in the last band). After I switched, though, my range was exceptional, and my sound took a small hit. I quickly went up to 2nd band, but to this day I still have two main problems thanks to my trumpet teachings: 1) My air usage is much less than that required to completely fill the tubes, thus giving me a closed, less resonant sound, and 2) My embochure, being to used to the smaller mouthpiece of the trumpet, is still very tight compared to what a baritone/euphonium embochure ought to be, helping to decrease my resonance and overall sound quality. I'm working on these, and am not looking for advice; my question is this: What do you think, for any others who have switched instruments, what is the hardest part about switching? For those who haven't switched, maybe you could imagine it well enough, or try another instrument for a week (after marching season, of course) to see what it's like.

[LikeABandNerd]

I've tried switching from trumpet to euph before and I enjoyed it because, for me, the euph was so much easier to play. The hard part though was switching back to trumpet. In general I believe and have also heard from others that it is easier to switch from high brass to low brass. However, when you try to tighten up that embochure and switch from low brass to high, it takes much longer to get tone and range.

[TRtrumpet]

I switched from alto sax to trumpet and I found I had to tighten my lips alot more. I can easily go between the two insterments now tho. Yea i agree going to from high to low brass is alot easier.

[Band Of Champions]

Yea, I think that it would be cool to switch and mess aground, but I don't think that I could handle it.