At 8:30 AM +0100 5/12/10, Lawrence Yates wrote:
Sorry, I should have added, other than Steinkopf - we had Moecks and Hanchetts (as well as Steinkopfs) - can't remember which ones were best.
Yes, the Steinkopfs ususally just stop up and stop playing if the breath pressure isn't just right. Our others are Korbers, and they take a good ear because you can get almost any note with any fingering! (And it is a 12th that's overbown, so apparently the cylindrical bore has something to do with the partials that are available, since that's the ONLY parameter that's shared with the clarinet family.) It depends entirely on the make and the reed.
Another good way to raise a laugh on cold, rainy, miserable English summer evenings was to run through an arrangement I had of "American Patrol" for crumhorns (doing, of course, all the sax type actions.)
Sounds like great fun. Our greatest tour de force was a renaissance "big band" playing Glenn Miller's "In the Mood." The descending chromatics in bar 3 of the introduction are pure hell on crumhorns!!! But our lead cornetto player nailed the ending perfectly!
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