Posted by Leland on August 19, 2001 at 09:42:59:
In Reply to: Marching Baritone posted by Eve on August 18, 2001 at 09:33:33:
Yup, it's a 2-valve baritone "bugle" in G.
Standard practice with these horns, however, never includes lipping down to "fill in" the missing pitches. Custom arrangements were, and are, the norm, and the missing notes are avoided simply by writing around them. Follow the link below to see the variety of repertoire thta's been performed.
Horns like these are still in use, too -- either in competiive corps that haven't had the budget or the need to switch over, or other civilian & alumni corps (which als include a lrge number of piston-rotor horns), or every day in the US Marine Corps Drum & Bugle Corps.