Baritone horn
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A baritone horn in US usage is a bugle in the key of G used in drum corps that is usually played by former trombonists/euphoniumists. It has 3 valves and a face forward bell and is the middle voice of a drum corps, between the high sopranos and the low contras.
Another US usage has the baritone as a small, Bb euphonium with three valves, but does not distinguish it further into being specifically a saxhorn as the UK usage does.
In the UK a baritone horn, usually shortened to baritone, is a tenor saxhorn in Bb, that is, at trombone/euphonium pitch. It is thus the larger version of other saxhorns like the soprano range Bb flugelhorn and Eb tenor horn (alto horn in the US). In the UK the baritone is found almost exclusively in the brass band.
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References
- Adapted from the Wikipedia article, "Baritone_horn" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baritone_horn, used under the GNU Free Documentation License
