At 19:57 22.09.2009 +0200, Barbara Touburg wrote:
On Youtube there are clips of the Brandenburg concertos by the
Freiburg Baroque. In this clip
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jtk4ETAx8g>
the trumpet player moves his right hand fingers in a special way.
What does he to? Are there tiny holes in the tube?
That's Friedemann Immer and he using a Baroque trumpet with vent
holes. A natural trumpet, i.e., one without vent holes, only provides
the notes of the harmonic series, of which several are rather out of
tune and/or instable. Opening a vent hole (there are generally three)
basically puts the instrument in a different key with a different
harmonic series, thus providing other possibilities for playing the
otherwise out-of-tune or instable notes. Unfortunately, the extra
security that the vent holes provide also make it possible for
trumpeters to play louder than they otherwise could on the old
trumpets. In recent years, a number of European trumpet players,
above all Jean-Francois Madeuf, have started playing "without holes"
with increasing success.
Howard
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Howard Weiner
h.wei...@online.de
http://howard-weiner.de/
Tosca jumped to a conclusion.
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