Should all work now. All messages are in HTML. My other mail program refuses HTML messages, but can read yours & others without any problem. It is the program of T-Com, my main provider, who is one of the biggest in the world. Hope, things work. And an international list should be able to digest all sorts of messages, but ...... may-be, I was too fast in answering & did not take care for NOT LEAVING OUT THE FIRST CHARACTER. This might have caused the blank messages AND your definite alienophobic filters. If a nation is on war ..........
BTW, did I tell you, that we have nearly missed the big quake in China, as leaving Chengdu three weeks before the disaster only. Watch out, I will offer several horn books, old methods & mouthpieces & pictures for sale or auction very soon, some very hard to find things if you find them in the market. Is there anyone out who could transfer old Pathe records (100 RPM, from inside to outside) to WAV or MP3 ? Let me know, please. Now the messages: About faulty horn making: There are a lot pseudo hunting horns in the market in Austria & Germany, huntinghorns with a change valve from Eb to Bb. The valve is a retro valve, means you shorten the horn by pushing the key. To fit the valve into the body & still keep the body reasonable in design, they shortened the tubings of this device, containing the necessay tube lengths for the Eb extension.. And there is no tuning for this valve. So you have to tune the horn either to Bb, but as soon as you play on the Eb part, it will be too sharp. If you tune it the key not pushed (Eb), the horn will be horrible flat as soon as you push the key. Let designers write music, they would never write any rhythm other than 4/4, just to get it symetric. A horn built square instead of round would fit much easier into a case, but the notes would bounce from one corner to the other. If annealed steel is used, it would result to a steel-under-water-bouncing, but no horn tone. Blame these people who built horns with wrong tube lengths. Blame them publically ! Fortunately, nobody wil die, if a horn is not built properly, but how about engineers designing a bridge which collaps with sevceral dozen people crossing it. They & their supporting politicians will say: bad luck Technicolor mouthpieces: A new leak in Hattiesburg perhaps ? Or contaminated lipsticks ? Radiated material used ? Some companies use deep freezing others use X-raying, third companies use radiation (cobalt). Or Chinese products ? Some companies with access to high tech bring them into salt mines, but some salt mines carry also radioactive waste depots ....... Have you heard about these color changing precious stones from Russia named alexandrite. They change color between daylight & artificial light. But these, even produced now in a fuse process, are too hard to be used for a mouthpiece, so they cannot be the source. Have you checked your drinking water ? No ? I would do it. Some bottled water comes from obscure sources, while tap water is regulated by law usually, but when profit is in sight, law will be broken easily. So, please, check about. Oops, I forgot the influence of teeth-bleechers, recycled metal ..... ============================================================ Coating makes no difference as the silver or cold coating is of 5/1000 of a mm usually, which does not tighten the hole nor increasing the weight significantly. The total weight of the mouthpiece is of influence to the tones strength & colour as well as the shape (cup, funnel, thickness of the material, design of the mouthpiece generally). Painting the mouthpiece has also no influence. Material (yellow brass, white brass, sterling silver, titanium, plexi, wood) has a great influence definitely. Danger of loud playing: Rehearsing a Mahler part at 1 am seems to be insane anyway. People doing this should better stay in a home for mentally disturbed. Why aren´t they able to organize their time (practise) during normal hours not after mid-night ??????? Yes, World has changed much the last years, but you see how the employers exploit their employees. And we stupid in Europe have adopted your system also. In some cases it is right to adopt a success/performance related salary, but how about the people in the leading positions or even CEO ??? They reduce your income to give a big rise to themselves. I do understand your problem, but one MUST not judge all problems from the very personal situation. Why dont you bring your mouthpiece to your working place just to do some embouchure gymnastics while you work ? _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
