Leonard, the video is lovely, but this horn playing technique has not much to do with the ancient horn technique some 200-250 years ago. It is a revival of hunting horn playing made easier (no much practising !) by the organizers of this custom. Their mouthpieces are much different from the old ones. Today they use very tiny shallow cups with a 2,5 mm bore and knifelike rim, thus the penetrating & pinching sound, while the old mouthpieces were not much different from todays mouthpieces (deep funnel type, bore of 5 mms & more, small rim made of thicker thread). This does not say, one should not like this kind of a sound. If done well, it is exciting - but has not much to do with hornplaying of ours, rather imitating the barking of a crowd of howling (positive !) hunting dogs: ppeow-ppeow-doohtt-doohtt
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