Brass-specialisten in Stockholm, Sweden, carry both Alexander and Tilz
mouthpieces. They have no online shop, however, so if you want to to business
with them, you'll have to call (+46 8 411 6262) or mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
them. Homepage: http://www.brass-spec.se/.
Sven
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Forgot to mention, that you can buy Alex mpcs online from Paxman,
www.paxman.co.uk, /shopping.
Sven
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From: Chris Tedesco [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: The Horn List horn@music.memphis.edu
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2007 4:06:45 AM
Subject: [Hornlist] Buying an Alexander
On 2007/01/24, at 18:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:08:33 +0100
from: hans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subject: RE: [Hornlist] Audacity
Sorry, Simon, this software is quite useful, triplets are
not all equal. There is emphasis on the first note, same on
quarduplets,
Hi all,
I wonder why transposing (to do or not to do) is always such a big
issue on this list. I always play from the original parts and I have played
in all transpositions mentioned in previous mails. And I also know that it
is not that difficult to learn and essential for professionals players
matthew scheffelman wrote:
Here in the foothills outside Denver Colorado, ...I drive the Audi
Quattro so I can enjoy autobahn speeds on our
wonderful highways, in the snow...
and David Lamb wrote:
The Colorado MahlerFest in Boulder, the second week in January, was
sandwiched in between
As an amateur who lost 20 years of playing to my other job, I don't see
what the fuss is about. After 20 years it all came back to me very quickly.
Yeah, B still gives me some problems, but if I practiced more I'm sure I
could master it.
So maybe we should stop teaching math in school and just
Thore Dosdall wrote Sun Jan 14 2007:
Hello everyone,
I am a high school student and have run up to a problem that my horn
instructor could not give an answer to. About a fifth of the time I play
a
g and sometimes the a within the treble clef it comes out with this
gravelly tone that wobbles and
Around here, we've had a lot of snoo.
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As many of you know, John Barrows was a close friend of Alec Wilder and
truly an inspiration to him. Unfortunately for us horn players, Barrows was
playing in the Minneapolis Symphony in the late 1930s when Wilder began
composing his octets. Wilder wrote that he wished Barrows would come back to
The horn is not a machine gun, the music is not computer
software. So emphasis must be on certain notes to give a
rhythm, to make a sense out of the music. Emphasis means
expression, more musical pressure. It cannot all be
measured. Even this emphasis is different for consecutive
triplets or
Ger, exactly what you said, makes the difference between
professional lay musicians. The lay musicians think mostly
how great it be to make great music. They feel they do all
for the great music, but forget, that the tools must be
acquired first. And many of the lay community of musicians
set up
Hi Simon,
Here's a quick and dirty to spectrogram:
There are three dimensions you are interested in for sound:
1) frequency
2) intensity (volume/amplitude)
3) time
Waveform view (what you are used to) only represents time and intensity (you
can glean some frequency info
I know a very prominent femal soloist, who has a wolf tone
on every g1 (2nd line from bottom) even on her recordings.
Thore, unscrew your valve caps check about the alignement,
flush through your horn, check about little dents or lose
joints, as suggested Hans Illich. Do not press the lips
Do you know what makes me laugh? Showing up at a church job to discover
that there are no real horn parts. Instead, there are copies of pages
right out of the hymnal, trombone parts, and other miscellaneous passages
and excerpts written in concert pitch by choir directors who have no idea
David,
you scribe:
just enough (snow) to make trouble. So I'll take Matthew up on
his offer I have some snow for you - if you would switch a
portion of your extra snow with our snow,
Speak for yourself, over here in Warren (David is in Ann Arbor,
Warren is a suburb of Detroit), I am
subject: [Hornlist] Buying an Alexander mouthpiece online
Hi all,
I'm looking to purchase an Alexander mouthpiece online and I have had a hard
time finding sites that carry them, let alone from companies based in the
US. I am aware of a retailer in the US that supplies Alexander horns and
would
Open to ages 14-25, The Interlochen Horn Institute is a great opportunity
for horn players to spend a week of intensive study in all things horn.
When: June 16 - June 22
Where: The Interlochen Center for the Arts
Faculty:
Thomas Bacon, soloist and recording artist
Douglas Campbell,
Problems with the tone quality ??? Why dont you try to use
more the F-side, say until c2 (2nd space from top), off
course some better in tune notes like Eb still doing on 1st
valve on Bb-side, also some hit notes in the bass, as they
speak better.
Yeah, you have to act much better with the tongue
Audacity is useful; I use it for recording and editing, even to correct clams.
The spectrogram has been explained, but not specifically for Audacity. If you
select a time period that has a single note and plot the spectrum, you will get
the spectrogram. Use log frequency and a high number of
Greetings, all --
I'd just like to add a personal note regarding transposition. A number of
years ago I had the opportunity to play a Verdi opera (can't remember which one
-- sorry, Oldtimer's Disease), and the horn part must have required a gazillion
different transpositions, sometimes within
In the debate on transposition, one point I haven't seen is the importance
of knowing your scales and arpeggios.
For instance, if you know the A major arpeggio and scale absolutely
securely, then you already have much of what it takes to read horn in D. You
just see an arpeggio in C major and you
Hans wrote:
And finally, why do you open the emails on this topic, if you have no
interest on that topic ? You make the
mistake not those who discuss it.
Hans,
Good point. But I really could not resist because I knew you would give an
answer. My point is that although I have no big
Any discussion of measuring sound quality by machine needs to contain the
caveat that only a portion of the sound is measured by the machine. A large
part of what we hear is created by our own ears and will not show up on the
graph. Our ears can measure much more accurately than any
So,,, let's ask a different question:
Do you think the audience hears more missed notes due to transposition
mess-ups?
OR
Do you think the audience hears more missed notes due to a confusing amount
of notation in transposed parts?
Ken
(in the midst of an opera with different transpositions on
Musical notes move from somewhere, to somewhere. Only rarely is strict
rhythm appropriate. Musical notation is only intended to indicate the
closest fraction of a single beat. The interpretation, accelleration or
decelleration, etc., is how the performer demonstrates his artistry.
This is the
Do you think the audience hears more missed notes due to transposition
mess-ups?
OR
Do you think the audience hears more missed notes due to a
confusing amount
of notation in transposed parts?
Relatively few in the audience will notice such things at all. Of them, only
a minority will
Does anyone really believe that some one with Hans experience and expertise has
problems reading music with many flats or sharps? When ever I read of or about
some one claiming that multiple accidentals being a problem, their musical
credibility comes into doubt or I assume my leg is being
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone really believe that some one with Hans experience and
expertise has problems reading music with many flats or sharps?
... As an reason for transposing, this is the most lame of the lot.
I think you have confused the words not easy with too difficult.
In case any of our younger members are inclined to think not everyone
on the list thinks hornplayers need to learn to transpose, so I don't
need to either, may I add the following questions?
from: jim thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subject: [Hornlist] Re: transposing
..
Drive the automatic
from: Marc Gelfo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subject: [Hornlist] Re: Audacity
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I have put up a sample spectrogram of me humming C2,D2,E2,F2,G2,C3 at:
http://gelfo.net/dg/spec.jpg
See on the first note, my 2nd harmonic is stronger than my first.
Great stuff!
Thanks, Marc.
I'll be back
In a message dated 1/24/2007 11:21:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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I spent over a $100 to have my snow
blower tuned up and a new carb installed, and I've started it once to
see if was done correctly. I will happily drain the gas out of it at
the end of Winter if we don't
Thanks for your offlist comments, Carlberg.
Unfortunately my offlist replies are bouncing.
Help!
Simon
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Ohhh, you really suffer. Verdi´s horn parts mostly require
F, E, Eb, D, C, Bb-basso, A-basso, Ab-basso (both not
frequently, just in a few operas) on the lower side G on
the higher side. But the music text is very simple, not much
meody, but a lot of repeated accompaniment, simple chords,
very
This is the point, why I see (saw, heard) so many mainly
younger players practising even afterbeets .. Their
teachers are to be blamed
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Hello Ger, thank you for advertising my mouthpiece. I have
sold over 1000 now. All same type same size.
Yes, I agree if you talk about a non professional horn
player. Well, a non professional less experienced horn
player would surely rewrite a part, if the part is a bit
complicated in certain
William, this is a very naive assumption. Horn players were
natural horn players first used to very clean parts, the
accidentals just assigned to notes which had to be altered
by different techniques. We are still used to that kind of
clean music text. The accidentals just give us a certain
Actually you have to calculate how far to lift each foot
for every step you take in a staircase under certain
circumstance. One example: the old Khmer temple staircases,
thousend more steps long ways up in the Chinese holy
mountains, staircases in old buildings, where steps can be
less or more,
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