The "hang-on-the-arm-method" is the worst one. You have to sort the crooks again & again for the task. And it costed time to pull themn from the arem etc. and it was very noisy - anti-ideal for recordings. The best were the old church-music-stands with up to six crook hangers or the flat boards attached to the musicstand, right to place pencil, oil, erazor & a waterbottle & some rolls with cheese & ham .....
The half step solution is not necessary as practical it seems to be on the first look. Half step tonality changes are rarely requested. You wuill have enough time allways, except if the conductor & producers are that crazy ignorants of musical principle that rests or intermissions are part of the music. Changes within one single number dont got halfstepwise but rather follow the complementary tonality principle or pairwise principle. ============================================================ ================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nielsen Dalley Sent: Saturday, September 09, 2006 9:00 PM To: horn@music.memphis.edu Subject: [Hornlist] Re:Quick changing crooks No pun intended. When I had the chance to play hand horn in a similar situation I taped two crooks (slides) together using a spacer of cardboard with one slide right side up and the other slide right side down. Then I could pull the slide, turn it end for end and insert the other one in a few seconds. On my orchestral hand horn with basic b flat alto pitch, The slide tubes were long enough to pull the slide to reach a half step lower in the high pitches (b flat to A). With a horn with terminal crooks I was playing often with the terminal crook and one or two couplers in place. So the chance consisted mostly of removing the terminal crook and then adding or removing the correct couplers, which for expediency would be hanging on my left arm. It was noisy when you had two on your arm so they had hankerchifs taped around them. Harriet & Nielsen Dalley _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans%40pizka. de _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
