That is why any publisher worth his salt will provide parts for ALL clefs and instruments, that way assuring sales to any country, surely a good thing and so easy to accomplish in new publications when using Finale and other music notation software. Maybe now is the time to establish a worldwide standard and concert pitch bass clef for the low brass would seem by far the most logical solution.
That is, in fact, exactly what U.S. publishers of band music have done. It has been a given for many decades. The one exception is for baritone (euphonium) parts, which still have to be provided in both bass clef (concert pitch) and treble clef (Bb transposed), reflecting, I suspect, what instruments the players actually started out on.
It's orchestral players of brass instruments who have to be able to transpose anything at sight. Band players simply aren't trainded to do so, for the most part.
John
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