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Music

I love music. It's a great feeling when you practice something with a group long enough to get it down well. I have participated in amatuer musical productions, variety shows, and football halftime performances. I was a member of the Cal Band (http://www.calband.berkeley.edu) (University of California, Berkeley), the Foothill College Symphonic Wind Ensemble, and am currently a member of the Silicon Valley Gay Mens' Chorus (http://www.svgmc.org). I sing baritone and play the euphonium.

The Euphonium is a brass instrument from the Tuba family. It's about half the size of a tuba, however, and plays notes an octave above what a tuba normally plays. This places it in the same musical range as a trombone or the typical male voice. It has three valves which you use to adjust the length of the tube, but there are only seven unique combinations of the valves, so playing a particular note also requires buzzing the lips with the appropriate tightness.

The tube is conical, meaning it starts small at the mouthpiece and gradually gets bigger and bigger. This is one feature which differentiates it from a trombone, which, like a trumpet, has tubing which is pretty much the same diameter throughout its length (except for the bell). That makes a difference in the way it sounds. Ok, so you'll have to trust me on that.</imgarray>