BAND DIRECTORS AND MARCHERS...CONV. EUPH


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Posted by Joe S. on April 09, 2001 at 08:03:25:

We (Mid-South Music, Memphis, TN) are now offering a custom-made (to order) FOUR-valve Weril euphonium which is convertable to marching. They will only be available (at least for the present) with the factory lacquer finish with well-done patched in lacquer where the modifications have been done.

The advantages are numerous:

- This instrument plays as well as the Yamaha 4-valve model 321, but is convertable for marching. Yamaha only offers a 3-valve model which is convertable, and it is considerably more expensive than this 4-valve instrument.

- This instrument, even though convertable and even though custom-altered costs hundreds of dollars less than a non-convertable Yamaha 321 (as priced by the most competitive vendors known).

- This 4-valve convertable euphonium costs less than even the "so-so" 3-valve Taiwanese brand of convertable euphonium.

- The hard case is super-durable.

- Once owned, the school will have a FOUR valve instrument to use in concert band that is convertable for marching use.

- A true euphonium has a richer sound outdoors than a marching baritone, and offers a tone color which is less like that of the trombone section.

- When small students are required to march with trumpet-style marching baritones or marching euphoniums, sometimes the weight is just too much to support. This instrument is shoulder-mounted for easier support.

- To purchase separately what this instrument offers, one would have to pay at least $900 - $1000 for a Weril four-valve euphonium and a probably another $900 - $1000 for a Dynasty marching euphonium. However, once those two instruments were bought (at several hundred dollars more cost than our custom convertable model) the "factory" marching euphonium would only have 3 valves.

Email me if interested. School purchase orders are acceptable, as would be a reasonable downpayment with order from band booster organizations. These are made-to-order, but we can probably accept quite a few orders before the "summer cut-off" for rental season and due to the fact that we wouldn't be able to deliver in time for August band camps. (Orders are acceptable at any time, but the "wait" will become an issue for orders placed early in the summer.)

In general terms, if there is a lack of discipline in a band organization or with a baritone player individually, this might not be the best choice, as the removal and replacement of mouthpipes (just as with sousaphones and convertable tubas) requires reasonable care in order to avoid damage. Band programs and band students with good disciple and adult-like behavior benefit very much from these instruments.

The pop-up picture is with the MARCHING mouthpipe in place.



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