Euphonium by durleybeachbum
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Seen better days! We had a brass band where I taught, and the instruments, which were second hand to start with, spent their last days in my art department.
I brought this one home to spend retirement with me. Great for drawing!
Another one Here
Comments (9)
wysiwig
A relative of the tuba. Euphonium always sounded funny when Benny Hill said it. Your image shows how well used it is.
weesel
Also called Baritone, right?
Faemike55
Just read up on this instrument - great capture and postwork
photosynthesis
Great patterned reflections. I've never heard of these before...
sossy
cool old instrument with interesting patterns and color tones ☺
jendellas
The words of the Floral Dance come to mind.
auntietk
One day I would like to take my camera and go into a music store. Bliss!
Glendaw
Awesome postwork Andrea.
Reminds me of the old rusty pipes under the sink.
Amazing what you have in your antique selection, thanks for sharing.
XxOo
anahata.c
I always thought the euphonium was a tragic fellow---it never made it into the ranks of the 'real' orchestral instruments (and if you ask it about that world 'real', you'll get a pranging the size of Scotland). But it has a dignity all its own, even as it tells its kids "now, you stand tall---just because you're not a french horn or tuba doesn't mean you're not as great!", while the kids say, "right, dad, dream on..." This is a great shot!!! I love it. You postworked those crooks and curves and valves, etc, so look like they were dug out of an attic where they'd been decaying for decades. Both shots capture the interweaving, clumsy, hooked and curved world of these beastly instruments. And you're one of the few people here who will explore these for expression and strange beauty. Love it. This is real Andrea stuff (along with the fact that you took it home to use it for drawing...and maybe because you felt sorry for it...who knows...)
(when people ask how we got all the strange curves and designs of modern orchestral instruments, we have to remind them that they go back to the Middle Ages, where they were truly crude; but as they refined, they never lost their primal roots. Meaning, people didn't discard the outmoded parts, they just build on top of them. Therefore, modern orchestral instruments carry a dna from old, old days, lugging around bits that should have dropped off an eon ago, but didn't. Thus the strange convolutions and unplayable bits that modern players take for granted. To an extra terrestrial, those brass instruments would appear a strange convoluted collection of pipes and bizarre valves. Pictures like this drive that home.)