I'm more of a trumpet heavy band personally.. I feel that both instruments could be used for melodic purposes but the baritone is more of an instrument for color..
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Out of the two, 50 tpets and 10btones that are bringing the pain. I hate the sound of overbearing btones. with 50 trumpets, all you need are about 15 STRONG btones. People don't realize how heavy the sound of a btone carries over a trumpet
50 trumpets and 10 btones can work and i would prefer that. Btone is a strong instrument anyway, if all btones are on point you will definitely hear them. GSU, SU, JSU has had 10 btones years but you still heard them, just a few years ago SU and JSU had small btone sections but they were still strong. 50 trumpets is a great number and the solid sound of trumpets is lacking in many bands. It depends also on how one arranges. If the btones play in unison most times then 10 is good but if the arranger puts them on multiple parts then you would probably need more btones to really be get your point across. 34 trumpets and 26 baritones is very unbalanced and you would hear nothing but baritone.
you made a very valid point in this statement......
"It depends also on how one arranges. If the btones play in unison most times then 10 is good but if the arranger puts them on multiple parts then you would probably need more btones to really be get your point across."
But what I am tired of seeing is, in high school bands non-existing baritone or trombone... most have either or due to a lack of feeder schools being diverse when it comes to students picking or directors placing students on an instrument. This will come to hinder the college ranks in the sound they are striving for eventually.
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you made a very valid point in this statement......
"It depends also on how one arranges. If the btones play in unison most times then 10 is good but if the arranger puts them on multiple parts then you would probably need more btones to really be get your point across."
But what I am tired of seeing is, in high school bands non-existing baritone or trombone... most have either or due to a lack of feeder schools being diverse when it comes to students picking or directors placing students on an instrument. This will come to hinder the college ranks in the sound they are striving for eventually.
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