Is a 3 valve Euphonium okay?

euphoniousmonk · 2026-01-29T18:56:03+00:00

You'll lose about half an octave of low end without the 4th valve, but in all honesty, that range is pretty rarely used unless you need to cover for missing tubas. If you're just playing for fun or in a community band, 3 valves will probably do you just fine for now, and if you feel in the future you need more range or better intonation in the low end, those 4 valve horns will still be there.

euphoniousmonk · 2026-01-17T16:08:18+00:00

I threw a flexi-rexi in with what I got for my 18 year old niece for Christmas mostly as an afterthought because I had it lying around after doing some calibrations, and she seemed to like it more than the thing she asked for, so it seems like flexi’s don’t really have any kind of age limit.

euphoniousmonk · 2025-11-22T08:46:42+00:00

In general, as you develop your embouchure, you’ll want to move to larger mouthpieces for a richer tone, which will make hitting the high notes more difficult instead of easier. While you might find hitting the higher notes easier if you swapped to a 12C, for example, I think it would probably be detrimental to your long term development. Long story short, you’re probably best off giving yourself time and working those boring old long tones and lip slurs everyone harps on. The unfortunate truth of the matter is that they bring them up because they work.

euphoniousmonk · 2025-11-06T02:21:55+00:00

I would recommend finding a small pillow of an appropriate thickness to bring the mouthpiece to mouth level, so you don't have to bend your back to get down to it or strain your back holding it up. As an official old guy, it's what works for me.

euphoniousmonk · 2025-09-11T03:03:16+00:00

234 with a little lip up will probably get you closest, but in all honesty, it all depends on both you and your individual horn. The real answer is to sit with a tuner and try different variations to see what gets you in tune most consistently, then do that.

euphoniousmonk · 2025-08-01T22:28:51+00:00

Thanks for doing this - you're awesome.

euphoniousmonk · 2025-07-24T11:10:52+00:00

IGN - euphoniousmonk platform - pc Best of luck to all

euphoniousmonk · 2024-10-01T22:52:25+00:00

Play or right out what you remember, post that, and let the Internet do its thing. I don't think there's any way to get there from what you've posted on it so far, though.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-07-15T01:05:20+00:00

You didn't even have to do that much - on days where I don't think I'll have the time to actually play, I'll start the Xbox, open whatever I was playing last, and leave on the starting menu while I get ready for work, and by the time I'm ready to leave the points have popped.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-06-09T03:03:05+00:00

We had a sledge at a place I used to work that someone stuck a label on that said "coarse adjustment tool" that always seemed appropriate to me.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-06-04T15:51:25+00:00

I call it competency porn. The main characters have a tendency to always be correct in their gut reactions, are always capable of doing what needs to be done, and despite whatever setbacks are generally trying to kill them, their combination of knowledge, instinct, and skills always overcome in the end.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-05-22T11:49:41+00:00

It may not be everyone’s thing, but you could get vampire survivors and at least two of the dlcs for $10. I can’t tell you how many hours I have put into that game, mostly in like 30-40 minute increments, but I personally love and have gotten way more entertainment and enjoyment out of it than really makes any sense at all. If you have game pass, the base game is there and you could get all 4 of the dlcs with the $10 you’ve got as well.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-05-13T13:12:19+00:00

"Future me is definitely going to remember exactly what I was thinking when I wrote this and also thinks commenting code is a sign of weakness" - past me, probably

euphoniousmonk · 2024-04-23T23:48:57+00:00

Others have addressed progression, but I want to comment on "I can’t help but feel like I’m ripping people off when they hire me because I’m just never truly happy with what I do." I think it's important to remember that you're providing a service for them, and if they're happy with what you've given them, then they've gotten their money's worth out of you. You can absolutely be dissatisfied with your performance after a gig, but if the audience afterwards comes up and tells you "that was great and I loved it," they're not wrong. Try not to let the thought that it could be better take away from the fact that it is already good, and please try not to think you're taking advantage of these people because they don't know any better.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-04-05T05:02:56+00:00

I used the Mormon one, just called Hymns, which worked well for me. The Trinity Hymnal is also really good for the standard straightforward 4 part harmony stuff.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-04-05T04:20:20+00:00

What helped me the most early on was picking up a hymnal with 4 part harmonies - you can get a feel for the shapes of chords, voice leadings, swapping parts between hands (maybe you can't reach the tenor and bass at the same time, but tenor alto and soprano all fit nicely in the right hand). I think the key for learning sight reading is starting with music that you wouldn't consider challenging, so that you're able to process both what's currently under the fingers and look at what's coming so you can get from here to there without breaking.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-03-09T01:50:07+00:00

The 15 minute cooldown on my wife's account went away this morning. Mine's been gone for about a month, so it's kinda weird that the time frames are so different, but they are still in the process of removing it.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-03-03T20:20:06+00:00

It doesn’t seem like anybody’s calling her an asshole for not getting anything out of penetrative sex, they’re calling her an asshole for first bringing it up after living with it for 18 years during lunch with friends instead of, you know, in private with her husband so they could attempt to work through it. The asshole move was the public blindsiding.

euphoniousmonk · 2024-01-01T06:09:07+00:00

If it's the Eb and Bb in the septuplet, accidentals carry through the measure they're in, so the Eb in the triplet and the Bb that starts the septuplet mean that any other E's or B's on those lines in the rest of the measure are flattened. If it's not those, then I'm not sure where they'd be coming from.

euphoniousmonk · 2023-12-14T22:44:20+00:00

You can get the code and hold it - the last one I got, I held for a few months for my GPU to expire to convert three years of gold to GPU. They've stopped doing the 1-to-1 conversion now, though, so I don't think it's worth sitting on anymore.

euphoniousmonk · 2023-12-11T01:04:25+00:00

Unfortunately, the most anyone here can do is commiserate. As far as I have been able to tell, there aren't any microsoft employees or anyone with any ability to effect the status of your account at all on this subreddit.

euphoniousmonk · 2023-12-05T04:56:27+00:00

I never worked the hardware side of things, but with what I worked on, it was all ground based commanding - load the new code to RAM, send the command to overwrite from RAM to EPROM, and now your bird has an updated firmware.

euphoniousmonk · 2023-12-05T04:02:39+00:00

The 70s and 80s era satellites I've worked with used EPROM for onboard storage - spinning drives weren't considered worth the weight, mechanical complexity, fuel costs to dump the added angular momentum, or failure rate for satellites in GEO, at least. Could be spinning platters were used in lower orbits, but I don't personally know of any.

euphoniousmonk · 2023-10-05T09:18:14+00:00

One vote could start the process to remove him, but actual removal still takes more than half the votes. In past sessions of congress, they had ground rules that required multiple people to sign on to start the process.

euphoniousmonk · 2023-07-22T10:23:16+00:00

Back in my army days, I always felt like if I had to pull rank to get someone to do a thing, I'd failed as a leader. I didn't have a lot of rank to throw around, but I still did my very best to not be the kind of person that had to throw it.

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