I suspect this kind of violin may have been developed for use in the early recording studios where many instruments had to play into one not very sensitive microphone. I believe I have seen in a museum a double bass before with a similar contraption on it.
By the same principle one still sometimes sees Trumpets or Tubas with angled "recording bell"


best Wishes,


Benno



On Monday, June 14, 2004, at 07:37 PM, David Goldberg wrote:

I am recently back from a visit to Europe. In Prague I passed a street
band - excellent musicianship - and took a photo of a very strange horn.
You can see it on http://www-instruct.wccnet.edu/~goldberg/strangehorn.htm
When I get to it, I'll put up some more photos of European horns I bumped
into.


Also - help please - I bought a Czech CD, 'Quartets for various
instruments', put out by the Kocian Quartet. On this disk there are 4
quartets for different instrument combinations, all by Czech composers:
Georg Fuchs (cl & str), Jan Vent (str), Josef Fiala (bsn & str), and the
one that interest me - us - the most: Quartet in Eb major by Vaclav Pichl,
for ob/cl/HORN/bsn. Vaclav is apparently also known as Wenzel. I would
like to find the sheet music for this quartet, but the internet, including
Hans Pizka's collection seems to not have a line on it. Does anyone here
know about it? Nice horn part.



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