Hmm...very luxuriant! Such a wide selection of double reeds is quite a
luxury in many bands nowadays (I remember only being able to write one
each oboe and bassoon part when I wrote my HS band stuff).


Aaron J. Rabushka
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> There is a great deal of continuity between Sousa's instrumentation and
> that of contemporary bands, but there are couple of features worth
> noting.  All flutes doubled on piccolo. Two oboes, 2nd doubling EH. The
> Bb clarinet section was large (12-27 players), with only one alto and
> one bass clarinet.  Earlier Sousa bands used Eb Clarinet, but he
> discontinued this in favor of adding more flutes.  The use of
> contrabassoon (or, in one season, contrabass sarrusaphone) was limited
> to a few seasons and was doubled by the second (of two) bassoonists. The
> sax section varied from four to eight players.  Trumpets and cornets
> were strongly segregated, not doubling, usually in a two trumpet to four
> cornet ratio, although in the earlier years the lower cornet parts were
> taken by flugelhorns.  Always four horns, and four trombones to two (or
> later) one euphonium.  Sousa only had upright-bell sousaphones, and the
> earlier bands used a mixture of tubas and sousaphone, while the later
> bands used sousaphones exclusively. Always three percussionists.  The
> band membership also included a female vocalist, a violinist, and a
> harpist as soloists, with the harpist also a standard member of the full
> ensemble, seated front center between woodwinds and brasses.
>
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