 Due to limited vocational opportunities, there are a considerable number of relatively serious, quasi-professional avocational euphonium players participating in many higher-caliber unpaid ensembles.Unlike a generation or two ago, many colleges with music programs now offer students the opportunity to major in euphonium.However, due to the smaller numbers of euphonium students at most schools, it is possible, and even likely, that they will study with a professor whose major instrument is not the euphonium.