How do the trombone, baritone horn, and euphonium differ in sound? Explain.?

Answer 1

General Acoustic differences:
- Trombone tubing, bright sound;(high)
- Baritone tubing, deeper mellower sound brighter than Euphonium but less sharp timbre;(medium)
- Euphonium tubing, perhaps most mellow sound.(low)

Bore shape and Tubing are the main distinctions.

Bore:
- Trobone, slightly cylindrical bore;
- Baritone, narrower cylindrical bore;
- Euphonium, conical bore.

Tubing:
- cylindrical tubing produces a bright and distinctive sharp sound;
- conical tubing produces a deep, round and mellow sound.
(The baritone horn's tubing is about half cylindrical half conical, hence sounding neither like tuba nor trombone.)

Position of valves, numbers thereof, where the bell is pointing, is incidental.

Other Baritones and Euphoniums characteristics:
- tenor-range brass aerophones in the tuba family;
- generally not considered orchestral instruments;
- higher than a tuba and about an octave below the trumpet;
- recognized in Britain as two different instruments;
- often treated as interchangeable in the US due to confusion over the two.

Progression could begin for a trombonist with a bass trumpet.
The two shank sizes, standard and large, on trombone size mouthpiece is similar to the trumpet. As correct blowing, breathing and exhalation techniques develop, a larger wind tubing can be adopted.

Further enquires available through associations.

Answer 2

The trombone can easily distinguish itself with it's slide sound and it's ability to use a cone or cup. The specific sounds of comparable notes though would be much smaller, whereas the trombone has a lighter sound than the other two.

In differentiating the other two from each other, I would point you to this website which goes into a lengthier comparison.

http://www.dwerden.com/bareuph.asp

Answer 3

Well, if you stretched all the tubing out into a straight line, it would be about 9' long! The instrument is typically a little over 2 ft long and weighs about 6 lbs.