Just sign me up for the next Karlheinz Stockhausen / Leroy Anderson
marathon -- the best of both worlds.
Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 03:05 PM 4/20/2006, you wrote:
I can't quite decide if this message is trolling or not, but I'm
http://www.jazzprofessional.com/profiles/Bernie%20Glow.htm
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Same fingerings as trumpet, cornet, flugel horn, etc. -AC.
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does anyone now own or play an Eb HORN??? I am most curious about the
fingering sequence.
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Wrote it for key bugle, right? Not modern-day Bach Strad.
-AC.
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At 04:52 PM 4/12/2006, you wrote:
Haydn only wrote one trumpet concerto Steve, fairly certain about that.
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I thought it was Sidd Finch -- if it's the same guy I'm thinking of,
wasn't he the1st successful major league switch-pitcher.-AC.
At 03:41 PM 4/1/2006, you wrote:
Today is the day the world was formally introduced to perhaps one of the
greatest horn
Practice, practice, practice.
Range comes from endurance.
Endurance does not come from range.
-- Alan [ -- Chops Of Steel -- ] Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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I am currently in my second semester of university and am having a
difficult
in Germany. I play horns made in USA,
plus 1 made in Japan, 1 made in West Germany (back when there was a West
Germany).
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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The moral of the story: low cost, poor quality imports don't always stay
low
Yamaha YHR-668N.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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even bother with Blessing-Getzen compensating horns
other similar instruments I have discovered to be unplayable.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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Second, a local shop has found a used double horn for me that I am thinking
of getting
, etc.
After an appropriate degree of progress, the horn student will be ready to
graduate from a single horn in F to a double horn in F B-flat.
That's how my old teacher explained it, anyhow. I believed it back then
(1955) I still believe it today.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean
on -- even in the world of learning to play horn.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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good.
Does anybody agree with this outlook?
Surely I am not the only amateur on the list (even if I am close to the
rankest).
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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Basic facility at the piano ought to be required of every musician, in my
/colealansonprojectmusic
Regards.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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Good luck.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 12:35 PM 2/2/2006, you wrote:
I am looking for a fingering chart for both an older Eb and F
Mellaphone. Would anyone that has one please e-mail them to me at
[EMAIL PROTECTED
of
the Dennis Brain albums.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 10:17 PM 2/2/2006, you wrote:
Does anyone know what kind of horn or horns Dennis Brain played? Where are
they? Who has them? Who made them? One of my students is curious and now
Check out Caught By The Horns, for horn quartet plus band, by Burton Hardin.
URL for more information = http://www.hornplayer.net/archive/a299.html
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 09:20 PM 2/1/2006, you wrote:
Our community
mouthpiece, with outstanding results. But that's another story.)
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 07:05 AM 1/30/2006, you wrote:
In a message dated 1/27/2006 7:54:38 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The Conn #2
Whoa! I have a 6D worth less than that.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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The case is in very good shape and my asking price is $285 US +shipping.
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But take care not to miss out on the Mark Hindsley concert band Till
transcription, with the notes the rests where the composer put them
without any baritone doubling.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 08:54 AM 12/21/2005, you
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-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 01:40 AM 12/15/2005, you wrote:
The headline in today's local newspaper sez: Campaigns reach crescendo
for Iraqis
What do you think of the notion of 'reach'ing a 'crescendo' in this context?
Very
Harvard.
Not that there's anything wrong with that.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
Leroy Anderson was the band director at either Harvard or Yale. I can
never remember.
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It has been retitled The Word Processor Song.
Audio effects for your PC are available on line at...
http://www.colorpilot.com/home-typist.html
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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I much prefer his Typewriter song, but not enough to ever
Leroy Anderson did with musical notes what Norman Rockwell did with paints
on canvas.
Not that there is anything wrong with that.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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They've got a boatload of these over in the Far East, eh?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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http://tinyurl.com/9acrb
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McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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when you
really, really meant to push the buttons for D-sharp.
So if you are annoyed by receiving such missent links, I apologize for the
mistake.
But on the other hand, if you find yourself interested in the
possibilities, appreciate the serendipity, well then: You're Welcome.
-- Alan
It's only a Besson 408, but it has a strong resemblance to an Alexander
103, wouldn't you say?
Check out...
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or, more compactly...
http://tinyurl.com/7qvst
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
of the
maestro's head, or the raising of the maestro's eyebrows, something.
The audience is supposed to be surprised by sudden instrumental changes --
not the conductor or the instrumentalists.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
~
I always
The accumulation, while playing, of undrained water at the low spots in the
tubing generates turbulence that's arguably worse than whatever
turbulence-causing effects there might be from installing a water key.
So if you're hankering for a water key on your horn, go for it.
-- Alan Cole, rank
.)
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 07:25 PM 10/10/2005, you wrote:
I confess to being confused - I was helping a friend's son practice his
audition for the middle school jazz band on the trombone.
I thought the trombone was a B-flat
instrumentation, then as a practical matter there is virtually no
difference. Zip. Zilch. Zero. Nada.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 01:24 PM 10/9/2005, you wrote:
I wonder if taking laquer off the instrument realy contributes
Schools Area Band the Troop 140 Boy Scout band.
When I got to 8th grade, the teacher wouldn't let me play in the band
unless I put away the York alto horn took up 1 of their Conn 6Ds instead.
The rest is history.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/dmmc/Music/Musicpaper/
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is high up in that category.
Hats off to all the do-if-yourself horn fixers out there. But my real
thanks appreciation are reserved for the professionals who know how to
undo dents re-do valves all that other stuff it takes to make it
possible for the rest of us to pucker up blow.
-- Alan
Forget about adding weight. Instead, to lighten the load, how about a few
strategically tied helium balloons?
-- Alan Cole, rank, amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
~~~
I'd like ideas on what I could do to add a little bit of weight to balance
my horn
...or get a Pip Stick. Check out...
http://www.pyp.f2s.com/html/pipstick.htm
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
~~
As to the weight thing, I think it is not very important. You HOLD the
horn in playing position. Adding weight
The guy who came up with the Pip Stick also advises putting an 8-degree
bend in the mouthpiece. Check out...
http://freespace.virgin.net/pip.eastop/html/bent_mouthpiece.htm
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
~~~
By the way, my business
Patch it.
-AC.
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At 10:10 PM 9/19/2005, you wrote:
Dear Listers,
My son has my Paxman Model 20L made in 1980. He has worn through the bell
tail again requiring another patch where his hand enters the bell.
I have the option of installing a new bell tail (spout),
Guy Duker did the arrangement. It's outstanding. Check out...
http://www.classicstoday.com/review.asp?ReviewNum=2217
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 06:05 PM 9/3/2005, you wrote:
We played someone's arrangement of Pines
, he's careful to refer to it as a sound check
rather than a rehearsal. But what's in a name anyway?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur.
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
~~~
At 02:11 PM 8/15/2005, you wrote:
Very hot greetings from Florida! I have a question and need some
Not in good condition, but still just about the cutest little fake French
horn I've ever seen.
Check out...
http://cgi.ebay.com/OLD-Frank-Holton-Collegiate-Hat-Box-Mellophone-N-R_W0QQitemZ7339746046QQcategoryZ16215QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County
-ho-ho-ho
Listen to the jazz come out.
I push the other valve down
The music goes 'round around
Whoa-ho-ho-ho-ho-ho
And it comes out here.
What could be more natural than that?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 01:54 PM 7/10
I have removed the bell from my horn...
...just to facilitate putting it back in its case.
I'm putting the bell on the horn again next time I'm getting ready to play it.
With luck, that won't attract any mountain lions, coyotes, cats, birds, or
terrorists.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
Hey, if you think I am an ignoramus on horn-related musical stuff, just
wait till you hear my cogent analysis of national world events.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
Please don't spam this list with political discussions
I've never understood what it is about valves that's considered so unnatural.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 04:06 PM 7/8/2005, you wrote:
Before the row about natural and valves starts, can I say that two weeks ago
we performed
...who once played horn, then traded in his Yamaha YHR-666 on a non-Yamaha
electronic keyboard instrument ---
http://members.cox.net/acole2/cole.bmp
So it goes.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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...or the eBay item number. -AC.
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At 10:37 PM 7/2/2005, you wrote:
You could start by posting the exact URL for your horn.
Original Message:
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Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 20:40:01 -0400
I'd appreciate help getting the word out
amateur horn crowd. (Don't know about the
professionals, though.)
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 01:20 PM 6/23/2005, you wrote:
What is the purpose of these coins?
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.), but not my non-eBay horns (Alexander 103, Lawson 804).
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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If God had meant us to attach coins to our valve levers we would still have
silver dimes.
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Hey, USA dimes work great as touch-pieces on horn valve-levers.
That makes me wonder -- do tuba players ever use USA quarters as
touch-pieces on the valve-levers of rotary-valve tubas?
If so, I know why.
But if not, why not?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia
Of Fairfax Band, which you can check out
on the Internet at...
http://www.fairfaxband.org/
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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Well, the teachers could play the pieces for the students to listen to
learn from -- in doing so reinforce their credibility with the students,
in addition to providing instructive examples of how the pieces should be
played.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia
Not only that, around here the 2 main public radio stations dropped
music, went to all-talk, spent much of their hard-begged money
duplicating each other's programming.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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NPR/PBS dug its own grave
An interesting well written perspective along those lines can be viewed
on the Internet at...
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=110006824
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 11:34 AM 6/16/2005, you wrote:
I
eBay
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur ( eBay hobbyist)
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
I also have a student level double horn that I'd like to sell.
Any suggestions as to the best way to do this?
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There's no reason for it. It's just policy.
--- or, in the alternative ---
Tradition.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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Just out of personal curiosity, why did it take so long for spit valves to
be incorporated in Horn design
Double-tonguing.
Triple-tonguing.
Doodle-tonguing.
Flutter-tonguing.
Growling.
Double-stopping.
Circular breathing.
Note-bending.
Half-valving.
Any others that I don't know about?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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Hey, lip-trilling!
That's 1 of the stupid brass tricks I meant to list -- also lip-shaking.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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It's not easy and I hated doing it, but learning to dbl, trp tonguing and
trilling were relatively easy
, various note-groupings, etc., not limit your
multiple-tonguing execution to strings of notes all on the same pitch.
Good luck with it, above all have fun with it.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
~~~
At 09:20 PM 6/12/2005, you wrote
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)
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McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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My point exactly. -AC.
Not very odd as it was Lehmann, who invented the compensating double horn
with the long 4 story central rotor, the Walzenhorn.
Klaus
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Hey, with all the money you save by not needing to buy rotary valve oil,
you can commission some famous composer to write something for natural horn
or conch shell or shofar.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 08:06 AM 6/6/2005
an accurately tuned complete set, fully chromatic in the aggregate.
Wouldn't that be a hoot?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 10:17 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote:
Slightly off-topic now on shofars and not horns, but Steve
Well, that's just a matter of articulation, is it not?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 10:46 AM 6/6/2005, you wrote:
It's a mind boggling idea. Though I think it would be a toot, not a
hoot.
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Shoulda been a Warrant Officer.
Officer? Yes.
Gentleman? No.
The best of both worlds, is it not?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur ( former E-5, way back a l-o-n-g time ago)
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
At 02:21 PM 6/4/2005, you wrote:
William B offered
Hey, I'm just saying it the way I heard it.
And if it's true, then the folks over at WOPA would be proud to affirm it, no?
-- Alan Cole, ex-E5
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
~~~
Be careful, you don't want to get W.O.P.A. after you. (Warrant
OfficersProtective
look any more
goofily rapt than that?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 04:25 PM 5/24/2005, you wrote:
OK, I'll bite; what are we looking at that is significant? A photo of A.
Cole? All I see is a guy holding a horn in his lap
to -- the best of
both worlds, no?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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I can imagine, how the many good hobby-musicians suffer under more or less
tyrranic but incompetent rulers.
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the composer is?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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We play a lot of Mouret Rondeau and Sonata from Die Bankelsangerlieder.
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It's not a pretty sight, but here it is...
http://pstr-m01.ygpweb.aol.com/data/014/5A/03/62/24/6I-Ie-PhNcbcu99KUjfft4r0Kp0uXfuf0180.jpghttp://pstr-m01.ygpweb.aol.com/data/014/5A/03/62/24/6I-Ie-PhNcbcu99KUjfft4r0Kp0uXfuf0180.jpg
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia
OK, try it this way...
http://members.cox.net/acole2/AAC-count.jpg
(no screen name, no password, no folderol)
-AC.
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Screen Name:
Password:
???
Carlberg Jones
Guanajuato, Gto.
MEXICO
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there are trying to get us to do.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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Arnold Jacobs told me the same thing and I remember him sitting there with
a horn mouthpiece and putting it on his lips in different places and
buzzing away. Of course he got
I have that problem sometimes when I'm playing horn.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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My thoughts move at a different rate than my fingers do and they don't
always line up properly
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, but not much stylistic
variety.
Now there are loads of great brass quintet arrangements in plenty of
different styles of music that audiences actually like to hear.
Yay Canadian Brass !
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur ( Potomac Brass Quintet [of Virginia] member)
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA
Who could forget them?
Or the Epic Brass?
Or the Chestnut Brass Company?
Or the Monumental Brass?
Or The Make Believe Brass?
Or Guy Touvron?
Even so, in the world of brass quintets, there's The Canadian Brass
there's everybody else, no?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County
-- i.e., like me
-- a real nice thing about using a high-quality professional instrument in
top condition is the secure knowledge that any performance problems I
encounter are due to my own inadequacies not those of the horn.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA
Has there been lots of turnover in the horn position with that group or what?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
~~
At 10:16 PM 5/14/2005, you wrote:
The Canadian Brass will, apparently, be playing in a church in Michigan,
near me next week
Hey, miniaturized Timken tapered roller-bearings for rotary-valve horns!
http://www.timken.com/
Wouldn't that be an innovation?
How long before the folks over at the Finke horn works come out with
something like that?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA
all my eBay horn
slides till eventually I lose interest or assume room temperature,
whichever comes 1st -- I'm talking lifetime supply here, for about $5.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 08:57 AM 5/13/2005, you wrote:
Something
Holton E. Schmid the rest could just make the rotors casings of
corrosion-resistant alloys, no?
Way too simple, eh?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 01:42 PM 5/13/2005, you wrote:
With all the talk of dirty, gummed up valves, I
provides 100% natural
nonchemical temporary symptomatic relief.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
At 09:35 AM 5/12/2005, you wrote:
Claritin actually makes my playing worse. My constant nasel drip becomes
a thick mucus. Great topic
Home brew valve oil is pretty good -- cheap, too.
Just add 1 pint of light machine oil to 1 gallon of clear kerosene. Blend
thoroughly. Apply liberally.
The stuff is highly aromatic -- smells like Victory.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA
Check out...
http://tinyurl.com/9xn53
Especially outstanding is this cut:
Bernhard Krol (b. 1920), Ballade Notre Père des Chasseurs für 8 Hörner,
Op. 73. [The Huntsmen's Lord's Prayer]
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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There's a nice CD out there with some mighty fine Wagner tuba playing on
it. Check out The London Horn Sound...
http://tinyurl.com/8hfzm
Several cuts (but not all) include Wagner tuba players in the ensemble.
Outstanding!
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA
nevertheless.
More air!
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
For a string player, doesn't the speed of the bow matter?
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after
a couple of years sold the YHR-666 (for more than Osmun Brass charged for
it new) used the proceeds to buy a rock roll electronic keyboard
instrument. So it goes.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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I feel I need to respond
Ibuprofen is lots cheaper. -AC.
My feeling is that if someone gives me their horn, and $300.00 (or whatever
it costs) - their horn will play differently.
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they are just not the same as real performances in front of
real audiences, and that's the kind of frequent, repeated performance
experience you need to beat those shaky-sound jitters.
Keep practicing good luck.
-- Alan Cole, McLean, Virginia, USA.
[rank amateur]
[Fairfax County
Barefoot? -AC.
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Of course that was in the days when I had to walk 5 miles to school in 5
feet of snow uphill both ways.
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Kids had to grow up fast back then. -AC.
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It's hard to believe that Mozart was only a teenager when he wrote this piece
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Nice high-end Yamaha -- check out...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemcategory=16215item=7315885262rd=1
One more example of the ravages of atmospheric exposure on raw brass.
Polish it up give it a nice coat of lacquer then you'd really have
something.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
replated refitted, cut-bell conversion, ambronze bell flare, the
works. Wow, what an improvement!
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
Just a side note, there are a few people out there who like their valves a
little less than perfectly
mouthpiece, but rather the discovery that the new mouthpiece offered
noticeable improvement.
So therefore I follow the advice offered by Alexander Pope a l-o-n-g time
ago (1711 A.D.), to wit:
Be not the 1st by whom the new is tried
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
-- Alan Cole, rank
Yeah. What bad thing do you suppose he did that got UCLA honked off so bad
that they revoked his diploma?
-AC.
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Speaking strictly as a rank no-talent amateur, hooray for any alternate
fingering or even fake-fingering that can simplify the clean, secure,
musical execution of a vexingly tricky technical passage.
Smoke on your pipe put that it.
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County
Dear Friends ---
Sincere apologies for that previous link, which (when I tried it just now)
took me to an uncouth off-color web site to which I did NOT mean to
direct you.
My face is red from embarrassment at the error. Please forgive me.
What I was trying to send is a link to a semi-couth
http://www.opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110006360
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for installing silver coins on the levers?)
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County), Virginia, USA.
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At 10:17 AM 2/25/2005, you wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, this looks like one those Italian made stencil horns
imported for Carl Fischer. The 3rd valve wrap on the F
position makes the unmodified Schmidt double unplayable, but that was the
impression I came away with after reading the piece.
If the eBay price stays relatively low, that horn would make a nice wall
hanger irrespective of its authenticity, no?
-- Alan Cole, rank amateur
McLean (Fairfax County
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