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*****NOTE TO ALL*****
Due to the fact that I no Longer Live in West Milford This Site will be Under Extra Management. I have chosen more people to help with the upkeep of this site.
Welcome to The West Milford Highlander Low Brass Page!
( Baritones Rule!)
Please Feel Free To Browse Our page And just Remember It's ALWAYS Under Construction so Book Mark Us and Check Back Often! Scroll To the bottom to see our site and here is a story from The Great BMW Page!
Please Sign My Guest Book!
I call myself and am known to my low brass
buddies as the recovering flutist. No, I didn't start out on the
Baritone. Unfortunately. I started playing flute after 5th grade.
By 8th grade I was the best player in our school. Our school
district has two middle schools, so when we all go to high school
there is a big chance that you will not know ANYONE in your class.
Or how many players in a section. There were no freshmen flute
players in the advanced band that year. I soon found out why.
There were 20 flutes in my band. As for low brass? Two Trombones.
NO LIE!!! After our first concert, I wanted to switch instruments
BAD!! I chose the Baritone. My band teacher thought it would take
me at least two months to get the normal range down. Not even two
octaves of anything. Two months later, I played the complete
chromatic scale from LOW B flat to HIGH B flat. I am now a
Sophomore in high school and I am now in the advanced band! I
just reached my 1 year and 2 month anniversary of the best
decision I've ever made! For a slightly different topic, I would
like to observe that most low brass players are absolutely,
undeniably nuts. I fit right in!!! We have two Euphoniums. Since
baritones aren't exactly cheap, I don't own my own. I use the
school horn. My baritone sounds like crap. I treasure the times
when my teacher lets me take the Euphonium home (this weekend!).
I use my baritone for pep band and practicing only. The thing can
tune perfectly on a high B flat tuning note but you go down an
octave and the thing is one WHOLE step SHARP!! It also sounds
like there is a dead cat shoved in the bell. All three of our
baritones sound like that so we gave them all names. They all
mean the same, but are in different languages. Mine is in German
(I do not speak or write the language so please don't criticize)
Tote Katz. The other two are Chat Mort and Morto Gato. We are all
nuts. We wallpapered the percussion with pictures of Pamela
Anderson Lee on our band teacher's birthday. We are the only
section that stands up when we play 5 measures in a 115 measure
song. We are the only section that line dance while playing a
classical song. We are the only section that switches trombones
and baritones when we have subs (we use our OWN mouthpieces
though). We are the only section that has successfully
manipulated our instruments so that they are now dangerous
weapons. We are the low brass!
-The happy eupher
