[Hornlist] Eastmen Horns

2002-11-08 Thread Prof.Hans Pizka
Dear friends, about the Eastman Horns, you seem all to know things from hear-say only, just blah-blah. I have been at the place where they are made. It is a very big factory ib Tianjin in China. The horns are made as everywhere in the world, no difference. They use the same machines. The workers

Re: [Hornlist] Baroque Concerti on Natural Horn

2002-11-08 Thread Prof.Hans Pizka
The high baroque concerti were NEVER played on "high natural horns", but on regular F- or E-flat- or D-natural horns, but the players had their technique extended to climb up to the 24rth harmonic, which is the written g3 (four ledger lines above staff). It is an absolute false assumptions, that

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Eastman Horns

2002-11-08 Thread Weshatch
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 11/8/2002 7:33:28 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > And Wes wins the LIFE-SIZE Plastic Kewpie Doll! > Congratulations, and thanks for playing. > Hmmm. It`s like my wife always tells me, " You`re a prize

[Hornlist] NHR Friday humor: ACTUAL ANSWERS FROM STUDENTS ON MUSIC EXAMS

2002-11-08 Thread Howard Sanner
Sent to me by a friend of 30-odd years' standing and a colleague at the Library. I wouldn't want to go down in history as the professor who called the statement about the French horn wrong! Howard Sanner

Re: [Hornlist] Baroque Concerti on Natural Horn

2002-11-08 Thread Russ Smiley
Thank you, Steven. - Original Message - From: "Steven Ovitsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:58 PM Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Baroque Concerti on Natural Horn > All of these have great natural horn playing of baroque music -- > > Telemann: Con

[Hornlist] ] Re: Eastman Horns - Thanks!!

2002-11-08 Thread Wilbert Kimple
Thanks to all who responded to my question about Eastman horns. This guy doesn't have much money, and I'm sure that's the driving factor in his thinking. That and a high pressure salesman he went to high school with. I've brought his attention to a good used Yamaha on ebay. There's a great Ale

RE: [Hornlist] Baroque Concerti on Natural Horn

2002-11-08 Thread Steven Ovitsky
All of these have great natural horn playing of baroque music -- Telemann: Concerto in D for 3 Horns Alster Ouverture (4 horns) Tony Halstead, Christian Rutherford, Raul Diaz & Gavin Edwards, Horn Chandos 0547 Concerti and chamber Sonatas by Vivaldi, Stoelzel, Graun Fasch Handel Telema

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Eastman Horns

2002-11-08 Thread Dan Phillips
IIRC, Eastman horns were exhibited by Paul Meng in Kalamazoo. If this is correct, my impression of the one I played was that it was considerably better than most of the other Chinese horns I've played. It had some design problems, such as a very uncomfortable left hand position, but I don't remembe

[Hornlist] Re: Eastman Horns

2002-11-08 Thread JKosta
And Wes wins the LIFE-SIZE Plastic Kewpie Doll! Congratulations, and thanks for playing. Jay Kosta -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 11/8/2002 6:59:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Hornlist] Baroque Concerti on Natural Horn

2002-11-08 Thread Russ Smiley
I've enjoyed listening to Baroque concertos for trumpet, cello, oboe, horn, etc. I believe that modern horn artists use descant or triple horns for recordings for recordings of Förster, Telemann, etc. I know there are many natural horn recordings of classical works (Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, etc

Re: [Hornlist] Eastman Horns

2002-11-08 Thread Weshatch
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 11/8/2002 6:59:38 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Just did a search on google.com, under "Eastman French horns" and found not > a word about such an entity, Hi, You might want to look under " Cheap Chines

Re: [Hornlist] Eastman Horns

2002-11-08 Thread Anne Megenity
Just did a search on google.com, under "Eastman French horns" and found not a word about such an entity, but many pages about the Eastman School & horns,etc. Then thought I'd enter one of my horns, the Holton Merker, and there were hundreds of entries. If your friend doesn't want to listen to you

[Hornlist] Eastman Horns

2002-11-08 Thread Wilbert Kimple
Can anyone tell me anything about Eastman Horns?? I need to know ASAP, Saturday if possible, Sunday night at the latest. A local music store is trying to sell one to a friend of mine at a "discounted" price, and he asked me if they are any good. The store does not have one in stock for us to lo

Re: [Hornlist] A 800

2002-11-08 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 08/11/2002 20:33:25 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > mayb if u could send like an email around telling every1 not to > send me emails that would help. > thanks a lot, > annnoyed person > Dear Everyone, Don't se

RE: [Hornlist] A 800

2002-11-08 Thread Baucom, Fred
Your password is: "unclearontheconcept". Like, good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:Fubbyninja17@;aol.com] Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 12:12 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Hornlist] A 800 -- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] ok i jus

Re: [Hornlist] A 800

2002-11-08 Thread Fubbyninja17
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] ok i just really want to get off of this thing because all i get is junk mail and i don't even play the french horn anymore. i dunno what my password is either. so mayb if u could send like an email around telling every1 not to send me emails that

[Hornlist] Hornlist

2002-11-08 Thread Fubbyninja17
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Re: [Hornlist] A 800

2002-11-08 Thread YATESLAWRENCE
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 08/11/2002 20:02:33 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > how do i get off this mailing list? Pray. All the best, Lawrence PS - or you could go to the web site address given at the bottom of every e-mail you recei

Re: [Hornlist] A 800

2002-11-08 Thread Fubbyninja17
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[Hornlist] A 800

2002-11-08 Thread Cabbage
Dan A recently returned to playing the horn I played the horn years ago for a long time, owned a Conn 8D but sold it - years ago. I recently started again and practice alot. I'm very happy with the A 800. Luckily, concert pitch in San Jose hasn't risen as much as it has where you li

[Hornlist] RE: Sadly, another SC Updade

2002-11-08 Thread Hurricane Chinooks
Being from the Columbia, South Carolina, area, I would like to add my 2 cents. Most South Carolina musical groups I've seen aim at mediocrity, and consistently hit their mark. I think it would be a shame for these students to have good horns, as it might encourage them to exceed the established s

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Horn on leg

2002-11-08 Thread Prof.Hans Pizka
Dear Heribert Kroeger, you seem not to understand, that one cannot talk about unregular face muscles & irregular teeth positions, when discussing the leadpipe - angle to front teeth axis, as this would be endless. I had stated how the angle should be if everything is regular (average !). But f

Re: [Hornlist] Re: fingering

2002-11-08 Thread Prof.Hans Pizka
But I have written all textes AND translated them by myself, have taken all the pictures & videos & sound recordings by myself, done the many MIDI files etc. - this is really a lot of work, a work going over years. Thanks for offering help. . <[EMA

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Horn on leg

2002-11-08 Thread Heribert Kröger
I don't know this book, however, why should there be only one correct face-to-mouthpiece angle? I think, every horn player must find the mouthpiece position, that works best especially for him, due to his facial contures, position of theeth etc. However, I prefer an upright position of my body and

Re: [Hornlist] Re: fingering

2002-11-08 Thread Valkhorn
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] OK That sounds a little better however to fill an entire site with a gig of content is an awful lot :) You said the site was around 1GB though, which is very confusing. Web "pages" themselves should normally be around 40-70k max for the data, gra

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Horn on leg

2002-11-08 Thread BrassArtsUnlim
-- [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ] In a message dated 11/7/2002 9:58:27 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Jay, the biggest issue has to do with face-to-mouthpiece angle, > and subsequent pressure on the top lip. Many players I deal with > at the high school a

[Hornlist] Re: Concerto Competitions, etc.

2002-11-08 Thread JKosta
The American Horn Competition is scheduled 21-24 August 2003 at The University of Alabama School of Music Tuscaloosa, Alabama see - http://music.wcu.edu/ahc/ Jay Kosta Endwell NY USA ___ H