Hornline Instrumentation

[mr.mello]

They had flugels in 02 as well (they opened In The Heat Of The Day), dunno if they had them earlier

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Yep, in 02 we had a midvoice section of 10 mellos and 6 flugels. In 03 it was 8 mellos and 8 flugels. In 04 they had 12 mellos. As for the flugels, I believe the trend now with Drew Shanefield's arrangements is that the flugels are playing parts akin to 3rd trumpets. Personally, I prefer flugels as a solo horn rather than a section because not every person can get that distinct flugel sound and they end up sounding like a trumpet.

[KungFuCharlie]

I'm pretty sure the '01 Bluecoats were 24,12,18,10.

[DevsBari02]

Instrumentation is based off of what kind of sound you want. Everyone has different opinions about it. Different instrumentations work for different corps for different reasons. For example, I dont think marching 20-14-24-12 would work very well for Devils, as I dont think 24-12-10-10-10 would work for Phantom). Instrumentation is idiom-specific.

1999 Spirit of Atlanta:

20 Sopranos

14 Mellophones

14 Baritones

4 Euphoniums

12 Contras

2001 Spirit of JSU:

20 Trumpets,

12 Mellophones

14 Baritones

6 Euphoniums

12 Tubas

2002 Blue Devils:

24 Trumpets

12 Mellophones

10 Baritones

10 Euphoniums

10 Tubas

2004 Court of Honor (Div.III):

10 Trumpets

6 Mellophones

3 Baritones

5 Euphoniums

4 Tubas

Edited January 17, 2005 by DevsBari02

[B. Loos]

I'm a fan of

3 Sop

2 Mello

4 Bari

3 Contra...

And I mean players, not parts... GO GOVIES!

[HornPlayerChris]

At Magic in 2003, we had 10 Tubas, 20 Baris, 12 Mellos, and 22 Trumpets. Not sure about the other sections, but, Mellophones had 2 parts with upper and lower splits for both parts at certain points.

[SpiffingChap]

14 trumpets (parts 1-3)

6 flugel (unison)

10 mello (parts 1-2)

10 baris (parts 1-2)

10 Euphs (parts 1-2)

10 contras (parts 1-2, sometimes split)

[mchromik]

Most of the Star hornlines of old where fairly similar;

22 Sops (3 parts w/split leads)

16 Mellos (2 parts)

6 Bari

14 Euphs (2 parts)

12 Contras

For a total of 70.

There were differences through the years; 85 had all Baris no Euphs, some early 90s lines had 18 mellos, 92 had 16 Contras, ect.

[leadsop97]

hmmm last year with ECJ we had:

12 trumpets - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd..although with chick corea, the 2nds and 3rd doubled at times. the lead part was also split at times from 2-4 parts.

7 mellos - 1st and 2nd

13 baris - 1st, 2nd, and 3rd

4 tubas - an occasional split into octaves or 5ths.

very odd numbers for a hornline, but we made it work :)

[KevinSop85]

Last year we had:

15 Trumpets 1st splits with 2nd and 3rds

6 Mellos 2 parts

12 Baris 3 parts

4 Euphs unison

7 Contras unison with splits

Edited January 27, 2005 by KevinSop85

[ducttapedgerbil]

20 sops

4 mellophones

6 flugels

6 french horns

8 baritones

8 euphoniums

8-10 contras

guess the Corps....