I was listening to a performance of the Schumann Horn Konzerstueck .... What kind of horn would the first horn, whose part goes up to at least a high "Z", play? A hornette? A picolo horn?
Most first horns on the Schumann seem touse a B-flat/high-F double decsant horn. That like the B-flat side of the regular double + a horn half the size of the regular F horn on top. It doesn't make it physically any easier to play high E's, but it provides some "insurance" against really bad clams for players who *can* play that high.
And off the subject: please do not quote the entire digest when sending a message to the list. Good etiquette would be to trim the message, much like I have above, to quote relevent parts. Since yours was an original thread, an otherwise blank email would have been appropriate.
Greg
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