Some Folks by Stephen Foster

This instrument is an E-flat alto horn made in the shape of a mini sousaphone by the Jupiter company in the 1990s as a special production run of 50 instruments. It was given to me by my good friend David Wooten, CEO of the Las Vegas Trumpet Company. It is played with a custom mouthpiece by James R. New () which combines a 6 ½ AL trombone cup with the alto horn shank. The song “Some Folks” was composed by Stephen Foster in 1855. This arrangement is based on Foster’s original setting as well as James Bellak’s “Some Folks Polka” (1884).