The best would be to build a horn which plays everything on a push-button action, just to please the parents with the perfect progress of their children. It should not cost more than 1.000.- & hold forever, so they could resell it without any significant loss. They would save teacher expenses, not all, but most, a teachers had to introduce the children in the way how to hold the horn & when to lift it up & down. Even the mouthpiece would not play any difference. Fingering would not be any problem any more.
What a greater fun for the bandleaders & what a satisfaction for the schools. And all bands were the winners. All same, like Mac Cheeseburgers. No more discussion about fingering, tone, dynamics, interpretations. All built in before. But the result: our brain would get stuck. Best would be: get uniforms for all of them, but the same uniform. May-be, some years to wait, until we are so good in gene-technology to create the perfect "ass" to fit in, the human all same size, same desires, same uniforms, same toys, same songs, same videos ..... we are not so far from this point. Easy victims for dictators in form of banks, industry, mass media & a few corrupt politicians surrounded by yes-saying puppets. Not my world, indeed. =========================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Wilbert Kimple Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003 11:02 PM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] RE: F horn/Bb horn beginner's test As part of my Master's work in college during the early 1970s, I had to present a researched public lecture on a topic within my degree field. I chose "Starting Beginners on F or Bb Horn," as my subject, and came down on the Bb side (pun intended) because I was playing a Paxman single Bb at the time, and I knew how much it had improved my playing over the double horn, a Schmidt, I had been using before the Paxman. During my research, I found that there were several studies done by the brass editor of "School Musician" magazine, during the 1940s, and these were printed in his monthly column. According to him, every student he started on a single Bb progressed faster, made All State Band sooner, and just simply became better players than the F group. He even took a group of his Bb players to a few national music conventions to demonstrate this fact. I believe his name was Philip W. L. Cox He later moved to Alaska, and was a member of the horn society until his death at age 90 plus. So, after all these years, I'm still pro Bb. I'm convinced it works better, especially in this day and age of parents expecting immediate results. There are seven school districts in my county, and some of them have been starting students on Yamaha single Bb horns for years. I had nothing to do with that. They simply found it worked better for them. The other districts start students directly on double horns. Still playing in Bb, too, although right now it's on an Alex 107 descant. I have been playing professionally, admitally at the outer and lower fringes, for more than thirty years, and no one has ever complained about my tone, or found it deficient in any way. Yes, I do crack a few notes every day, but my tone is fine. Wilbert in SC _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans.pizka%40t-online.de _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
