While I have moderately loud tinnitus in the left ear,
to the extent that it affects my ability to recognize
speech, I am still able to play horn in tune. I play
in tune by focusing on the sound coming to my right
ear. The brain has the ability to differentiate
between the sounds coming to the
To me , the sound in julius cezar was fine and fitted well the style .
We play broque music quite often , and untill recently I used to play on a
double descant in all of the cantatas or any other hair lifting stuff . I
think that with the right preperation you can get very nice tone out of
The aria is the Va tacito e nascosto from Handel's Giulio Cesare.
Best wishes,
Paul
On 5/26/07, Alon reuven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To me , the sound in julius cezar was fine and fitted well the style .
We play broque music quite often , and untill recently I used to play on a
double
Thank you guys for the answers.
The descant has a lighter sound that is more appropriated for the baroque
era. Now I have another question. Why does it happen?
Is the reason the smaller bore size?
Is the reason the smaller bell?
Is the reason the lighter weight (because it doesn't have the low
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Lighter resonance body (less material), shorter tube.
If you use the same bell for completely different horns, it
would end up in a more uniform sound missing the distinct
light sound. For some producers, it is a more practical
(economic) issue than an artistic, but much depending on the
artistic
Larry wrote:
Whether musicians who have tinnitus in both ears can
adapt and play well in tune, I don't know. Maybe
those with this condition can speak to this
possibility.
I have bilateral tinnitus that sounds like a far away chorus of summer
crickets. When I came back to horn about 18 months
Apologies in advance for the double post!
I am having a garage sale of horn stuff:
Osmun Vienna Cup with 10 bore and gold plated Vienna Rim in great Condition:
65$
NEW Stork Custom Froydis Model mouthpiece with an Alexander Shank: 75$
Lawson S660 Cup in good condition: 55$
Lawson
What Hans says concurs with my own observations from playing the many various
brasses in my
collection. My observation is, that good players chose instruments fitting the
sound they imagine
in their ears.
As I hear Hans very fine playing in the Cesare aria, he plays a single
Alexander descant
Sorry Klaus, the The Cs below the staff probably would
have been played on the Bb-side if a descant double had been
used and then would have been more massive. sentence does
not hit the subject. There are no C´s below staff which
should be more massive. These C´s are in piano dynamics.
The vocal
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