> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 12:39 PM > To: horn@music.memphis.edu > Subject: [Hornlist] RE: What makes Conns desirable? > > Well, the answer is pretty simple isn't it? They used to > sound good. Some of the greatest orchestral recordings ever > were made using 8Ds. The sound worked in the hall if you > knew how to play it. Worked on tape too. > You can call out some drawbacks of the 8D, but obviously, > in the right hands, it's a pretty darn good thing. There are > people who can play them cleanly, quietly, loudly, > beautifully, high, low. I've heard these people live, it's > not a recording trick. > I mean the Elkhart ones. There were good and bad ones > made back then. Most are just plain worn out now. There > haven't been any 8Ds made since 1970, just some imitations > with the Conn name on them.
Same here. My son had a lesson with Javier Gandara, who plays horn 3 in the Met orchestra, and we sometimes had a hard time paying attention to what he was _saying_ because his _playing_, brief as the examples were, was so spectacular! He plays an Elkhart 8D, and there wasn't a thing he couldn't do, and do beautifully, with that horn. I asked him about it, and he said that, while he had owned a variety of horns in the past, he got rid of the rest of them because he found this was the only horn he needed for everything. -S- _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
