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Originally Posted by ajamesu
Sounds good  What's the range of a tenor trombone? I'll give the cello parts' higher notes to a french horn. |
there's not much in your cello part that can't be played by a trombone.
you might consider reworking the 2nd horn part and the "cello" part and redividing them among a "new" horn part and a trombone.
There's one thing I'd warn you about, however. Piano and brass is not a natural mix of timbres, so it could be problematic in spots. I'd thicken the piano part a bit to compensate for the fact that the brass are likely going to overwhelm it even in the softest parts. Avoid those "single lines" in the piano part. Thicken them up with chordal tones and octave doublings. You might consider changing some of the piano part's register as well to place it in a more resonant register.
How about adding a bass trombone (derived from the piano's left hand, and some of those low cello notes) as well as a tenor trombone and then rethinking the piano part?
make it 2 horns, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones... and piano.