Watching "ARTE" in TV, showing the Macas tribe from Matto grosso on the border between Paraguay & Bolivia, they showed a user of a simple cow horn held by the left hand & manipulating sounds with the right hand covering the bell. Well, that´s the beginning of the "stopping". If they use that, we can assume, that hunters in Europe & even in antic Europe or around the Mediterranean Sea used similar technique. It became more raffined by the time & Hampl using that developed hand stopping & hand muting.
Found a chinese hornplayer on horse back, holding a more than arm long primitive horn (the original were of bronze or of ivory) in a group of ceramic figures from Tang Dynasty, also a group of players on camel´s back, all seen in the Xi´an National Museum in China. BTW a must for all China visitors as are the museums in Urumqi (famous mummies from Taklamakan Desert), Taiyuan, Shanghai (incredible), etc. In Xi´an they displayed a bowl with gold bullion, a half pound a piece, total of hundred lbs. There are graphics of horn players in Chinese hunting scenes, also a old wood print from Japan, showing a group of trumpet & horn players (natural horns), but they were Russians from a ship. Chinese used natural horns (imported) during the Taiping revolution (Christian- Socialist) in mid 19th century, when they built churches & used church music as we do. Have seen the pictures in the Taiping Museum in Nanjing recently. _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
