Baritone horn of his three solos (the other two involving a valved trombone and a trumpet) in a live performance of his song "Great Guns". Japanese free-improvisation trumpeter Toshinori Kondo has played baritone horn on some dates and recordings (e.g., "Jazz Bunker"), as has saxophonist Ralph Carney (e.g., "Night on Earth") Baritone horn The baritone horn, or sometimes just called baritone, is a low-pitched brass instrument in the saxhorn family. It is a piston-valve brass instrument with a bore that is mostly conical, like the flugelhorn and alto (tenor) horn, but is narrower than the conical bore of the euphonium. It uses
Brass instrument the valves and springs, and the brass of the tubing. This may take the form of desiccant design, to keep the valves dry, sacrificial zincs, replaceable valve cores and springs, plastic insulating washers, or nonconductive or noble materials for the valve cores and springs. Some instruments use several such features. The process of making the large open end (bell) of a brass instrument is called "metal beating". In making the bell of, for example, a trumpet, a person lays out a pattern and shapes sheet metal into a bell-shape using templates, machine tools, handtools, and blueprints. The maker cuts out