5 Brass Instruments You've Never Heard Of...
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- čas přidán 27. 05. 2024
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Ahh yes, the “Shiddyphone”
A well known classic
Shittyphone, I have a very shittyphone.
Made of nothing but the highest grade Chinesium.
Shiddyphone should be the name of the valve trombone.
@@DynamixWarePro Maybe you're not aware, but the Czechs were like the Chinese manufacturers of yesteryear, all the cheap and awful stuff came from there, often in bright colours etc, so I believe it's made of the highest grade Czechuminium.
Pharmaceuticals Music ah the shitty phone🤣
These instruments look like something from a Dr. Seuss story, and were named accordingly.
snoproblem the one on the left looks like an rpg
For those about to brass...FIRE! We salute you!
Except for the Schediphone
Really?😕😟
I guess you could call them...
Seussaphones.
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.
EXCELLENT! 'FURGING-RAT-O-PHONE' - kid down the street has a 1983 Honda Civic that sounds like it should be named that...heh heh heh
The sudrophone sounds like a non-brass player being forced to play a trombone at gunpoint
oh i see it
I cant hear it
Yes
It sounds better with vibrato (unless that's just the person quaking in their boots)
Very interesting!! Loved the "Spaghettiphone"!!
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.
Mega jealous!
Someone please start an extinct brass instrument noisecore band. I would love to play all of these with a piezobarrel installed in the mouthpiece!
The Electric Serpents is a great band name.
Yeah! Wow, you really added to this idea.
I mean not facetiously. The putting a piezo barrel on an actual serpent an calling it the electric serpents really brings this idea up to another level. Especial in concert with fully unamplified shawms.
Gotta have hella lips though
@@anakinskinwalker1724 album name right there
0/10 not enough jokes about the name of the schediphone
My apologies. I'll try better next time.
Nick Ferguson We should have a Congressional investigation about that. Maybe some sort of collusion or something!
@@TrentHamilton Your accent didn't help it much, but of course that's not your fault. If you were going for posterity, you could've pronounced it: [ shed - ee - fone ], but I must admit that I like "shitty-phone" better.
2 years late but all the jokes about the name were really schedi
@@uvn6210 LOL
2:25
Are you sure this isn’t what happens when a French horn and moms spaghetti have a kid
APotatoGuy LikesDogs think how heavy it would be
Oh fuck this mad me think of *HЄЙТАĪ
That would be so expensive though
Arms are heavy
Palms a sweaty
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.
Good luck to anyone trying to clean that out.
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
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!!!
The song 'while my shedophone gently weeps' never caught on.
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!
Oh gosh I want one of them one day
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."
What's the difference between a bari sax and a chainsaw?
......You can tune a chainsaw...
How do you get two piccolos to play together? Shoot one. How do you get two piccolos to play in tune? Shoot both.
What's the difference between an oboe and a bassoon? The bassoon burns longer.
It's weird to think some people think a Euphonium are like these instruments. But Euphoniums are cool I play one.
It would be funny if you played tuba since John Williams wrote a tuba solo about you
Euphoniums and tuba! best things ever
Are they a euphemism ? Is that what euphoniumists have. My old man played one in the 70's
I do to
@@mrparlanejxtra nice. Is he still good.
Jazzophone---a 20's saxophone shaped trumpet
John Baumbach ...Better than what? My mother said they sounded like kazoos. My sister told me that I’d have to buy reeds all my life long, so I chose the trumpet. Switched to baritone horn two months later. Fifty years later, I still eke out a living on the trombone, and with a ‘hybrid crossover’ mouthpiece, I’ve started to play trumpet again! So to heck with the reedy bastards.
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.
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.
There were some really cool ones made in the 1800's, Besson made some, and.....I really want to say Boosey Hawkes, I'm sure there were others. If you hunt around, there are some vintage recordings of players soloing with them. I never got the chance to try one, but those amazon prices are looking like a pretty fun thing to try!!!
Oh my God, when I first saw that French horn, I thought it was a joke
I thought I was a joke when i saw the horn had 8 mouthpiece slots.
The loo-phonium, now that is a joke but it works well playing Handell's water music.
There's an example in the music museum in Paris, possibly made by Sax (though I might be misremembering that). Would have saved me a ton of at sight transposing as a horn player.
That thing is NUTS! That thing must be absurdly heavy too
Looks like an Alien instrument by H. R. Giger.
Very interesting. When I visited the Vivaldi museum in Venice I saw a violin with a brass horn sticking out of the violin body.
OK, I get it. The Sudrophone is basically a Kazoo married to a Horn. I can get the same exact effect by playing my Kazoo out of the side of my mouth while playing my Alto Horn. That, of course, leaves the opposite side of my mouth available. Any ideas?
0:35 is what i call my phone when it freezes
Very well described, particularly for a blind viewer like myself. Would have liked to have heard the sound of all of them, however.
I've heard of the Sudrophone and seen pictures of the Cor Omnitonique and the Antoniophone. The other two were completely new to me. Thank you for showing them.
MrInitialMan did it sound like that recording?
"Heard of", not "Heard", unfortunately.
Ah, found the recording he listened to: czcams.com/video/X1Q3Fgr_jvk/video.html
2:03 I lost it lmao. So effortlessly well delivered
The schittyphone looks very well-made!
I miss Trent Hamilton very much, and I wish him well. I cling to the hope he may someday return to CZcams. I loved his wonderful sarcasm.
2:24 that's the most unholy instrument I've ever seen in my life.
pukalo [CDN] I call it the French Horn but it Sounds 500x Worse!
Brent...I look forward for every new presentation you do. EXCELLENT. WORK.
One of my favorite videos so far, Trent!
The BIMBONIFONO was invented by Bimboni a brilliant Italian composer that wrote 4 methods for trombone. Some study are very precious. An original Bimbonifono is in Florence at the Conservatory Museum.
Nice mellophonium on your wall - and in chrome! Classy!
I can just say that the intro to your videos is musically satisfying and I could listen to for hours.
Your delivery and knowledge is amazing! Kuddos Mr. Hamilton!!
Thanks Trent that was so interesting. We forget the passion these guys had to solve the problems to get the SOUND & make it "player friendly". We can love them for that. Today we have good instruments & all we have to do is PRACTICE. Well done those guys, & well done to you for sharing it with us.
is it me or does the schediphone needs some wheels and a little Who on top with a cymbal ???
O M G.......the SHIDDYPHONE. I want one. Also, want the WALL OF HORNS behind you!
The horn with multiple mouthpiece positions and all that duplicated tubing must be so heavy! Glad that they came up with more sensible ideas.
The Eyles French horns are bad, too. They sound too Frenchy. Trombones are the only sensible instruments.
I saw an illustration of a seven-bell "valve trombone". Then there is the Sarrusophone family, sort of double-reed analogs of the saxophones.
2:03 primal french horn
awesome video as always and honestly I had never heard of any of these instruments before, nice
For context, in school I actively played baritone/euphonium (I mostly played an American Baritone) and valve trombone. Like many low brass players, I began on truumpet. That said, I could play any brass instrument I picked up (and many woodwinds too), and I've always been fascinated by unique and odd instruments.
The sudraphone! When you said "It sounds like pants" I began to laugh. Then the example began...🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂!!! I had to pause the video because I was laughing so hard. Then you described it as "deeply unpleasant". 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 You're not wrong. My stomach hurts from laughing, BTW! Best laugh I've had in a LONG time. Thank you! And thank you for such wonderful channel! ❤
I had an opportunity to play a Double-Bell Antoniophone about 35 years ago. It was owned by the son of the original owner, a Canadian bandsman who moved to the USA in the early 1900s. I do not know what happened to the horn after that, I hope it is still in good hands.
The best way to watch Trent’s videos is with the auto-generated subtitles on
shitty phone
core omni tonic
aim tonio phone
sudra phone
harmonii trump
bon bonny phono
special guests:
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author clyde
Other odd brass instrument: helicon, BBB♭ (triple B flat) sub-contrabass tuba, upright-bell (rain catcher) Sousaphone, bass flugelhorn (own by Jim Self), the tubone (a valved contrabass trombone - also owned by Jim Self), thee Selfphone (Sousaphone in F - also owned by Jim Self) and the wooden tuba (owned by Roger Bobo)
This guy is so dedicated! I love it
Now I know what to ask for for Christmas.
Indeed Mr Weir, now I know what I DON'T want for Christmas!
I really wanna know how much that insane french horn weighs!
I was hoping you would play each one!! thanks for an entertaining video
I went into this video assuming that surely I'd heard of at least one of these before.
I had not. Very enlightening, thank you!
Sweet video man! Loved it, keep it up!
Very interesting! Thank you for posting this video!
You are absolutely correct sir, nary a sound nor sight have I ever heard. Thank you for the enlightening.
Thanks Trent! I'm on the hunt for a gazuntaphone.
I have not seen one, and obviously nothing online seems to mention it, and I probably have the spelling wrong, but my old teacher told me about it before he got a job at the Sydney Con.
I would be impressed if you knew of it, as no one else seems to have heard of it. I would love to share this with him and other peers from the time.
You win; I've never heard of any of these! But it makes sense that there was some experimentation going on to make the trumpet more versatile before the valve system was worked out.
Great video, really enjoyed your presentation
"the Antoniophone"
Me: ah a Fine instrument I'm sure
also me: I can't share a name with this thing
Altoniophone salvatone
The ophicleide has been my obsession for a while. Looking for videos of that is how I found your channel. Now if I could get my hands on a non-Chineseium comprised one...
I'm pretty sure Wessex Tubas do one, and they're fairly well regarded for quality.
mr fish is correct. wessex-tubas.com has two ophicleides (not counting quinticlave), one in C and one in Bb. The one in C is cheaper and apparently easier to play.
An ophicleide played well is a thing of beauty. Patrick Wibart is the only one I know who plays it thusly.
I have a Schiller ophicleide which was evidently made alongside the Wessex instruments, but doesn't have the complete personal overseeing of the Wessex manufacturing. That said, it is still an excellent horn, well-made, and even cheaper than the Wessex (mine is in Bb in order to get the low A). The fingering is a bear, though!
Also, the noted bandmaster Patrick Sarsfield Gilmore (1829-92) included a pair of antoniophones in the band he conducted at the Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia in 1876 and for some time afterwards, but he discontinued using them by 1880.
The ophicleide looks cool, kinda like a bassoon
The lyrics of Meridith Willson's "76 Trombones" includes a mention of "double-belled euphoniums."
Great information and video production congratulations
This was really interesting to watch, the Cchediphone reminds me of a French horn
You should call your 6 valve trumpet the Hamiltonium
I'm envious of that nickel silver Conn mellophonium behind your head to the right. I played a brass one in high school marching band and hadn't seen a nickel silver one.
There was a bell-less sarrusaphone for sale on eBay about 10-15 years ago. A brass-body double-reed instrument, it looked like a brass bassoon.
It is a fascinating video that you have shown us however it would have been fun to hear what each of those instruments sounded like.
Man, I find it funny that you compare these instruments to something that you probably think people have heard of, and I can't speak for anyone else, but I for sure haven't heard of all of the comparison brass instruments haha
Awesome video!
I love those names! I have an old trombone with a F valve that's a piston valve. The horn is mostly unplayable because of a bent slide (tried to get it fixed) and the horn is old enough that it doesn't have a screw mechanism to hold the instrument from folding in on itself while you play it but otherwise it's a neat horn
Great video, thank you!
Very informative not to mention amusing! Well done indeed!
Interesting! Thanks for sharing this!
2:59 "This instrument is just a modified version of a *S E X H O R N* "
i can’t unhear that
Very nice video trent, if you ever make a second part, i would add the Firebird. Maynard Ferguson's special trumpet-trombone hybrid.
would have been nice to hear a sample sound of those. Very interesting
All of these instruments honesty sound like a 4 year named them.
What?? The Bimbonifono is one of the most serious words I've ever heard. I'm going to name my next child Bimbonifono.
Someone needs to invent the Dr. Seuss collection of instruments.
I think instrument design should be reserved for people with simple, catchy last names like Sax or Sousa.
2:43 “ooh ooh I know that! I’ve seen that in my sleep paralysis!”
This is a great vid.I'm a former music major and comeback brass and reed player.I'm only familiar with the ophicleide.Do one on the bombardon.
Never heard of any of the above. Nice job man.
Thought he was about to do an ad for a sponsor at 4:30
yes atleast it is not one
I would love to hear them. You also left out my favorite: the Muckenese Battle horn.
You should do a follow-up video to this with 5 more or x more weird unusual instruments!!
A kid in my school made a flugelnet
A mix of flugel and a cornet. The bell was larger almost that of a french horn and the body of a marching baritone but with a lot less tubing
The jazzophone is a super weird brass instrument.
My trumpet teacher had a double-bell euphonium that I played a few times. It had a nice, smooth tone unlike a true trumpet or trombone. Not nearly as bright and brassy.
Interesting, maestro, thank you.
Cool stuff! Thanks.
"5 brass instruments you've never heard of" I'm sure I've heard of at least on... Nope. Never heard of any of them until now. Good job!
this reminds me that whoever thought of the trombone was especially bright. All these weird instruments with their overcomplicated systems meanwhile the trombone: "haha *toob"*
The first instrument you said, I knew it was going to be a blast "the Shiddyphone"😂
This was great!
You were right. I never heard of any of these before
Thanks, this is fascinating. Were they ever used in bands or orchestras?
Congratulations! You actually managed to find some instruments that I genuinely haven’t heard of! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
An ensemble of these might be fun.
What a wonderfull selection of instruments you have on the wall behind you!! Do you play any of them?
I would love to hear all of them
Interesting! Thanks, and God bless!!
I play the harmonitrompe in the marching band along with my didgereedoo. We don't get many gigs for some reason.
I thought I had seen most brass, but no. 3 was actually new to me!
I'd like to hear you play each one!
2:31 that is so incredibly cursed