Thank you both. I do tend to memorise my pieces but I like to have the sheet music on a low stand as a back up!

Just maintain your instrument properly. Valve oil is not to un-stick a sticky valve, but to prevent it sticking in the first place. It's also wise to completely dismantle and run a cleaning rod through the valve casings from time to time. I like to polish the valves at the same time with my preferred metal polish.

Konrad Firth thank you for the compliment 😊

Quenya Sindarin thank you!

Peter Nielsen thank you! I was feeling the exertion inside!

Big Al what a lovely comment, thank you

itsnotatrumpet thank you!

Jean-Luc Leclercq thanks very much!

good commitment, keep playing, one day you'll be an expert... and if you keeep playing, one day you'll become masterful

As a 16-year old Euphonist who's committed himself to a poorly underrated instrument since the 7th grade, I should tell that there is no other instrument more worth committing your time to than the Euphonium. Nothing quite sounds as beautiful as the Euphonium, nor as calm and unique. Not enough people play the Euphonium, and that honestly angers me. It's simply good to know you've committed yourself to one of the more... sweet-sounding instruments in the brass family. Keep going... preferably in Bass Clef.

Luis Rosario I've actually never understood why euphonium parts 'should' be written and read in Bass Cleff? I'm never able to keep te notes above the c above the bar apart so I end up playing the wrong notes in the upper register... Treble Clef is so much easier for this... But could be because I am used to treble clef because I initially was a baritone horn player in my first years in brass XD

TheJH1015 Baritone or Euphonium, they both are capable of playing in either Treble or Bass Clef, hell you can play in Tenor Clef or French Violin Clef if you want to (yes that exists). The clef itself isn't really the challenge, it's the switch of home key signatures: the key the instrument is tuned in. Usually a Euphonium is in the key of Bb if reading trumpet music and C if reading bass clef.

It's easier to read low parts in bass clef (especially the pedal stuff) and high ones in treble clef. I read both, but I'm native on bass clef.

Ross Jones thank you

Zeru Beyene Thanks!

Patrick van Thiel thank you for the kind comment 😊

Is that her name? Well, she looks like an Emily. Congrats she did amazing!

Ian McKinnon thank you, I appreciate the compliment 😊

Dice,,qué está chica toca el instrumento de maravilla ,,

I don't speak Mexican

+ST BariTC Denis Wick Steven Mead signature, usually around size 3 in high level brass band playing

Thanks, I thought so. I just couldn't really tell for sure from the angle that the recording was in

"My peni--" *shots fired, i am dead*

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'super f' ('f' above top 'c') absolutely beautiful playing - im really jealous! come and play for me at whitchurch band please!

jeremy jones are you sure its an "f"? im not perfect pitch, but i thought it was a "bflat" and my tuner agrees with me.

iamnotadingleberry "Eflat" sorry my mistake

If you're right, then her instrument is really flat! She plays it on 1st valve. Also it is the same note as top c on my tenor horn. So be my guest and work it out

jeremy jones are you looking at this from treble clef because an f is a concert e flat.

Thanks for your comment. This was part of a long band concert so it was best to leave the cadenza out.

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