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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was a reed player. Playing trumpet or saxophone, you can:
Play in band
Play in orchestra
Play in marching band
Play in pep band
Play in jazz band

Probably harder for saxophone to play in quartets and quintets, small group play.

The wind instruments that are most rare and hard to staff (no pun intended) tend to be oboe and bassoon. On the brass side, French horn, tuba, and the baritone horns are more rare. Lots of trumpets, one tuba. One of our kids chose from among those listed and was always in demand because they played one of the rarest instruments. They learned a second instrument for marching band. They auditioned and was selected for a top flight major university marching band later.[/quote]
There are not many orchestras that have saxophone. If he likes classical music and wants to play in an orchestra, he should lean towards trumpet.[/quote]

Our high school orchestra had no saxophones, so just going on what I've seen. Our concert has no percussion section, so our kid who plays percussion couldn't do concert band, only marching band. Kid switched to art as an elective. [/quote]

How do they not have a percussion section?

I knew a lot of people who switched into drum line in high school.[/quote]

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