5 Brass Instruments You've Never Heard Of...

Here's my choice of five odd brass instruments you've probably never heard of...

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[MisterDoctorBaconman]

Ahh yes, the “Shiddyphone”
A well known classic

[snoproblem]

These instruments look like something from a Dr. Seuss story, and were named accordingly.

[bikkies]

I love these names. It's like someone threw a bag of Scrabble letters in the air and wrote down what resulted. Flompletraphone. Borreltarbophone. Furgingratrophone.

[SbubbyS]

The sudrophone sounds like a non-brass player being forced to play a trombone at gunpoint

[joshuabillingsley]

Someone please start an extinct brass instrument noisecore band. I would love to play all of these with a piezobarrel installed in the mouthpiece!

[apotatoguylikesdogs]

2:25
Are you sure this isn’t what happens when a French horn and moms spaghetti have a kid

[justplanebob]

We had a set of Antoniophones at Illinois in the instrument museum. As a grad student, my summer job was keeping all these instruments in working order and, of course, I got to play them. The Bb baritone Antoniophone played astonishingly well in tune. It was very free blowing and responsive, much like a euphonium. The tone quality was brighter than a euphonium but darker than a baritone horn. We also had an entire set of rear facing, over-the-shoulder brass band instruments from the US Civil War era. The brass band played an entire concert on them in the Great Hall facing the wall with the conductor at the wall facing the audience and players. These instruments, as I remember, were stuffy and difficult to play in tune. The rotary valve strings often broke.

[nickcelestino]

0/10 not enough jokes about the name of the schediphone

[carlenger]

I actually had heard of the Antoniophone- and I can *sort of* see where they got the inspiration. I see it bears a little resemblance to the serpent, just with piston valves and obviously a different timbre. However, as this would've been invented in the 1830's when instruments such as the Mellophone, Tenor Cor and modern Single Horn would've been invented, it makes sense that they would've gotten rid of it. I mean, it really does look weird and cumbersome.

Also- 2:21 Just when you thought the Horn couldn't be more complicated.

[bradenblazewilson]

Oh my goodness, I'm a music nerd who spends way too much time looking up weird instruments, but I can honestly say that some of these are ones I've never seen before in my life. An instrument with a valving for every note? Unheard of. How 'bout one with piano-like valves? Never heard of it. You clearly have such a great passion, as well as interest, in brass instruments (and music as a whole), and it clearly shows through into your videos

[royfearn]

The instrument with one movable mouthpiece with eight sets of tubes puts me in mind of the Octoventral Heebiephone of Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy fame. I always wondered what an octoventral instrument would look like. Now I know!!!

[mrparlanejxtra]

The song 'while my shedophone gently weeps' never caught on.

[joejoseph]

How fun, thanks for this. As a former euphonium player in high school and college I love this. I keep saying I am going to buy an old euphonium and take up playing again. Especially this time of year I get nostalgic for when I would play in a brass quintet and we would play Christmas music at various places. We always went to the midnight mass at the catholic church. My mom was always so proud of that.

[winston]

I saw an illustration of a seven-bell "valve trombone". Then there is the Sarrusophone family, sort of double-reed analogs of the saxophones.

[GamerTime_]

Oh my God, when I first saw that French horn, I thought it was a joke

[geraldhartley]

My father owned an instrument he called a Ballad Horn. It was French Horn shape but played right handed and pitched in C. It had a very solid wood case. Never did find out who made it!

[powerman]

I recently came across a cornet on Amazon you may be interested in. It has 4 valves, the fourth valve going to an echo bell.

[imperiumof]

It's weird to think some people think a Euphonium are like these instruments. But Euphoniums are cool I play one.

[steakhousejohn]

Jazzophone---a 20's saxophone shaped trumpet

[nwebster]

I expect that we'll see the sequel of "Woodwind Instruments You've Never Heard Of" including "Tunable Piccolo, " "Tunable Oboe, " Tunable Alto Clarinet, " "Pleasant-Sounding Piccolo, " and "Tunable Saxophone."