Marching brass 1980s and early 1990s, DEG Music Products commissioned Willson Brass of Switzerland to design a Euphonium bugle, and their design used a medium shank mouthpiece that is not regularly seen in the United States. The contrabass bugle, or "contra", is the bugle equivalent of a marching tuba and its variants (the sousaphone and helicon). This bugle was designed in the 1960s. The original design for a contrabass called for an instrument in CC (the equivalent tubing length of a CC tuba), carried in front of the marcher like the higher voices. This was quickly replaced with a shoulder carried variant
Harlequin Brass Ensemble This idea was then further established by PJBE's successor's London Brass. The instrumentation is based on orchestral brass containing four trumpets (including Bb, Piccolo, Eb, D, C and flugelhorn as required), three tenor trombones, a bass trombone, a french horn and a tuba. This allows for a rich variety of sounds and styles, fitting perfectly to anything from Baroque music through to classical music, jazz, 'brass pop' and also moving forward with substantial contemporary works being written specifically for ten piece ensemble. Keiron Anderson became musical director of Harlequin Brass in 1999. Harlequin Brass Ensemble Harlequin Brass Ensemble based in