Can anyone give me any information on Eric Hauser. 40 years ago, I used his book to move from euphonium to horn but have never known much about him. The book is rather fast paced which seems about right for a college kid learning a new instrument. And it has a huge variety of material in it.
Richard Smith > > I tend to agree with the other reply. > > The 3rd slide isn’t wrapped as tightly as on a normal Bb horn. > > Speaking in Pythagoras fraction, which is close enough to get the sense of > dimensions: > > The F extension on a Bb horn has to be 1/3 of the theoretical length of > the Bb horn (the real horn is a bit shorter due to the effect of the wide > bell). > > The same way the 3rd valve of the F horn shall be 1/5 of the F horn > length. Compared to a Bb horn the 3rd slide of the F horn has this length: > 4/3*1/5. The resulting 4/15 of the Bb horn length is rather close to the > 1/3 (=5/15) of an F extension for the Bb horn. And that 4th valve is > larger than the normal 3rd valve of an F horn. > > Klaus > > > > --- On Mon, 3/23/09, Dick Martz <rjmartz.li...@att.net> wrote: > >> From: Dick Martz <rjmartz.li...@att.net> >> Subject: [Hornlist] Eric Hauser's Horn? >> To: horn@music.memphis.edu >> Date: Monday, March 23, 2009, 10:36 PM >> Hi, Guys: >> >> I'm puzzled by a horn in a photo of Eric Hauser: >> http://www.rjmartz.com/horns/Hauser/ >> >> It looks to me to be a single B-Flat horn with a fourth >> valve perhaps intended as an F extension, however the >> lengths of the third and fourth valve slides seem wrong. >> Both appear to be too long for a normal third valve slide >> for a B-flat horn and too short for an F extension. Actually >> the fourth valve looks about right for an F horn third >> valve. Any ideas? >> >> Also, does anyone recognize the other two people in the >> photo? >> >> Thanks, >> >> Dick Martz >> -- >> >> http://www.rjmartz.com/horns Horn Collection >> >> _______________________________________________ >> post: horn@music.memphis.edu >> unsubscribe or set options at >> http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/yorkmasterbbb%40yahoo.com >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > post: horn@music.memphis.edu > unsubscribe or set options at > http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/music%40rgsmithmusic.com > _______________________________________________ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music2.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
