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Baritone
Title: Baritone
Category: Arts & Humanities / Music
Details: Words: 366 | Pages: 1.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Baritone
The baritone has a long history. It all started in the early 18th century with an instrument called the serpent. This snake-like tube was made of either wood, brass or silver, and its tuning wasn't good. It had six finger holes (valves wern't ivented yet) in the beginning, but later more were added. It was used in military bands as a marching bass, but it could also be found supporting the bass part in church …showed first 75 words of 366 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 366 total…large bore Kaiserbariton, and the famous double-belled euphonium of Meredith Wilson’s The Music Man.
Not much happened in the development of the modern euphonium between 1888 and 1921, because people had decided that there was enough variety and there was no longer a need for new instruments. Baritones were taken out of wind bands and essentially limited to brass bands. Euphoniums however, became standard equipment for any military, marching, or concert band.
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