At 20:24 16 July 2007, wrote:
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As for a Euphonium (or baritone as my students are
inclined to call
the instrument),

Not the same thing in the UK...
http://www.bandsman.co.uk/writing_l.htm#Instrumentation

depends on the style. I can just imagine ol/ Phillip
Wills racing off to the sounds of an English brass
factory band.

Many were formed not among factories but at coal mines
and the miner's clubs & welfares, and in Scotland and
Wales as well as England. Also, some call themselves
Silver Bands rather than Brass Bands.

However in this day and age most of the factories and
just about all the mines have closed. Thankfully some
of the bands live on, but I suspect some died, or died
when they needed new instruments. BTW I don't think
there have ever been many brass factories in England...