Re: [Hornlist] Albinoni Horn Concerto - Again

2007-01-29 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I seem to remember, that it was Maurice André who 40 or so years ago started exploiting the mostly woodwind baroque repertory by Italian composers like Il Pasta Rosso, Tortellini, Zucchini, Pepperoni, and Mortadella. If done with taste I see no reason, why this repertory should not be digested

Re: [Hornlist] 'Unusual Horn'

2007-01-27 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Somebody wrote: > There's a right-handed horn on eBay.. Item#180077500691 > That somebody took the chance to anonymously announce that instrument of his own being up auction. I am not against such announcements. Only I think they should be done openly by presenting ones name. I should not sup

[Hornlist] One more Russian reading problem

2007-01-26 Thread Klaus Bjerre
My project of documenting brasses via photos may be known ad nauseam. But I find it interesting, and it is something manageable even in my less inspired periods (nothing bipolar, but allergy and arthritis being very dependable on weather conditions). Except exactly about reading Russian. Many R

[Hornlist] GDR - Hoyer - B&S - Weltklang - a compilation

2007-01-15 Thread Klaus Bjerre
It may known, that Sven Bring of Stockholm and I over years have communicated on public and private levels about brass matters in general and tuba matters in specific. I ended my multi-brass career on tuba and probably played no brasses better than bassbone, euph, and tuba. I am mentally very at

RE: [Hornlist] Anybody able to help with a translation from Russian?

2007-01-15 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Thank you Howard and Hans on either of the lists I cannot read especially the old style Cyrillic letters, but I can normally decipher Western words as used by Russians in writing and by ear. Howard offers a reading: I.K. is unknown to me, but may equal Ltd., GMBH, or AS in English, German, or

[Hornlist] Anybody able to help with a translation from Russian?

2007-01-14 Thread Klaus Bjerre
During my hunting for photos for my brass instruments' galleries I came across a quite special Russian helicon pitched in Db. However I cannot read the maker's shield: http://tinyurl.com/yetbuv Will somebody be able to provide me a translation in Latin letters? Thank you! Klaus Smedegaard Bjer

Re: [Hornlist] tenor

2007-01-07 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Sven Bring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find it hard to beleive that this is anything but a joke, and a rather good > one at that. > > Sven I think this guy goes for it without hesitation. He has been through a severe car-crash, which I think made him loose his perspective, if he ever h

RE: [Hornlist] tenor

2007-01-07 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Did you mean "abitur" ?? Means "Abgang" in German, Abgang > from School, leaveing school. In Austria it is called > "Matura" or Maturity, but it is anything else than maturity, > but it is meant as "maturity to go to university". > Of course I meant Abitur.

Re: [Hornlist] tenor

2007-01-06 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Go & visit the following site to get your surprise: > www.tenor.dk > > There are a lot folks out - without any self critic. This is sad! Even more so as this guy is born in and lives in the town, where I lived, when we moved back to Denmark in 1958. I li

Re: [Hornlist] Playing a Bb single horn

2007-01-04 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Sven Bring <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Mansur said in a posting on the Yahoo horn list that "There are lots of > top notch players > who specialize on Bb > instruments, especially in Europe, although there are a surprising number in > this country. Among > them are soloists and orchest

Re: [Hornlist] Hoyer serial numbers from the GDR and post-GDR eras

2006-11-19 Thread Klaus Bjerre
? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I suggest eHarmoy.com > > Dave Weiner > Brass Arts Unlimited > > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: horn@music.memphis.edu > Sent: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 7:43 AM > Subject: [Hornlist] Hoyer serial numbers from the GDR an

Re: [Hornlist] Horn-Saxophone composition principles

2006-11-18 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Larry Jellison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It > pertains to wind ensembles and church orchestras where > saxophones are incorporated. I understand Larry’s way of thinking, even if I do not necessarily agree with him in all matters. >From my general correspondence with American musicians I

[Hornlist] Hoyer serial numbers from the GDR and post-GDR eras

2006-11-18 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Are there any web sources for dating Hoyer horns? Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $420k for $1,399/mo. Calculate new payment! www.LowerMyBills.com/lre _

Re: [Hornlist] Idiomatic language

2006-11-12 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > For non-idiomatic English speakers, todays slang and colliquialisms can be > very daunting and > annoying. If the horn list was a preview of a PHD thesis then Han's recent > correction of the > verb to see would have been appropriate. The list readers have been v

RE: [Hornlist] St. Hubert's Day

2006-11-04 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Hans, you are the better musician between the two of us. But when did you last play in 2/5? I never encountered that rhythm. But then I also have done my share of typos. I also have attended my share of Schützenfeste in Germany, even if I am a born Dane. The only marksman’s shots were those fir

Re: [Hornlist] Recovrey from Pneumonia

2006-10-24 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Bill Gross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having done my part to keep the pharmaceutical companies profit loss > statements out of the red this month, my doc told me I'd be dealing with > shortness of breath and weakness for about a month. > > > > With that happy thought in mind (though I wi

RE: [Hornlist] Re: It's not over yet!

2006-10-24 Thread Klaus Bjerre
As I remember reading Morley-Pegge back in 1989, Britten wrote the Serenade for Dennis Brain, while he played the old style narrow bore single F piston horn. The first recording, which I do not own, was done under the batton of the composer. According to Morley-Pegge, Dennis Brain used his instr

Re: [Hornlist] where

2006-10-22 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is the horn list dead at the moment ? > Hans You and I both are continental Europeans out of a generation, where only very few were highly educated. You followed the classical linguistic gymnasium. I followed the mathematical line. Both of us have been ed

RE: [Hornlist] Tomb?ck's Auf dem Strom

2006-10-16 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "lied" not "lid", please. Aside from my expectation of Lied over lied from you, Hans, I will say this: Especially with some female singers I have often felt an urge to put a lid on a Lied. As for transposition of Lieder: One of my acquaintances in the mu

Re: [Hornlist] RE: Identification of instrument type

2006-10-01 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- danatwiss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You may want to email the seller for more information. According to the > "About Me" page of the seller it is none other than Bob > Osmun. I would think he would know. Bob Osmund is the seller of the well-documented descant horn, which I mentioned at t

[Hornlist] Identification of instrument type

2006-09-30 Thread Klaus Bjerre
We have had discussions about mellophones and descant horns before. The American mellophones come in a lot of variations, mostly with pistons, and rarely looking anything like descant horns. Czech/German mellophones mostly have 3 rotors for the right hand. A few have 3 rotors for the left hand,

RE: [Hornlist] assistant principals

2006-09-26 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Hans, we both like to take an intellectual wrestling. I happen to agree with you in your evaluations of when an assistant 1st horn is needed, unless you are dealing with madmen players like myself, who would play horn as well as bass trombone at the same concert, because the low strings could no

Re: [Hornlist] Video - Siegfried Horn Call

2006-09-25 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Graham Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi listers > I just came across this video on the Swedish Royal Opera House homepage and > thought it might be > of interest. The text gives some background to the Long Call in its context. > The hornplayer is > Annamia Eriksson. I heard her give a

Re: [Hornlist] Terrorism Report

2006-09-23 Thread Klaus Bjerre
My standings on political and religious terrorism are well known by my surroundings. I will not out them in a horn forum. However I am that old, that I can remember several profession and conservatory level horn sections playing with a level of intonation, which I considered terror towards my e

Re: [Hornlist] Changing crooks

2006-09-07 Thread Klaus Bjerre
At least he isn’t A crook any longer! Klaus --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But you forget, he is "not a crook." > > > > > I think of Nixon every time I play on this crook. > > > > Gotta go, > > Cabbage __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Ma

RE: [Hornlist] Bernstein in Vienna

2006-09-07 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Steve Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - wonderful stories snipped - > > Hans wrote: > > > One short episode: > > Some members had another gig & sneeked away from a rehearsal, > > letting a colleague do the duty instead. So Bernstein asked > > the orchestra president why they did so. T

Re: [Hornlist] Great Danes

2006-09-05 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- John Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well it was the Danes who gave us Niels Bohr. Niels had an equally skilled brother, Aage. But as he "only" was a mathematician, he never became famous outside our borders > > And, even more impressive from my point of view, the > great NHOP, Niels-H

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Learning from Hans (with a NHR twist)

2006-09-04 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- David Goldberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus Bjerre wrote: > > Now that we have the attention of a couple of true connoisseurs of British > > English, I have a > question: > > > > HM the Queen has four household guards on foot and 2 mounted ones.

[Hornlist] Re: Learning from Hans (with a NHR twist) By now only the twist!

2006-09-04 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Looking here: > > _http://www.army.mod.uk/coldstreamguards/history.htm_ > (http://www.army.mod.uk/coldstreamguards/history.htm) > > will lead you to a history of the regiment which tells you how the regiment > was formed: > > "The town of Coldstream, becaus

[Hornlist] Re: Learning from Hans (with a NHR twist)

2006-09-04 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Paul Kampen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Message text written by The Horn List > >There's nowt like a good fight to raise the spirits.< > > Dear Lawrence > > There speaks a true Lancastrian! > > Over on this side of the Pennines, we prefer an improving book and a mug of > coco. Now that w

RE: [Hornlist] das rheingold

2006-09-04 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Robert Osmun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please, enough name calling. I've known Hans for quite a long time and > think he's a pretty good guy. He's always been very generous with his wealth > of knowledge and experience and is one of the very few professional hornists > who even contribute

Re: [Hornlist] Brahms 2

2006-08-30 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Mark Syslo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems to me this is one of the few spots in the literature that my > teacher strongly suggested to memorize the movement. I haven't played > it in years, but I remember the licks! > Even those learning it by heart have to be able to read it in the fir

Re: [Hornlist] Brahms 2.

2006-08-27 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I have played 2nd in Brahms #2 from such printed part, where everything was transposed for horn in F. That took part of the fun out of it. I much rather would have been presented to the part, as Brahms wrote it in the score. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- Fred Baucom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: [Hornlist] Brahms 2.

2006-08-26 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Christine Ranson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I managed to avoid this throughout my rep exams in my degree, but now it's a > requested piece of > rep for a rather important audition which is very soon. > > I CANNOT get my head around B natural! > > Does anybody have any tips to go about s

Re: [Hornlist] anyone played one of these Lidl horns?

2006-08-26 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Bo Gusman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm curious. They look pretty cool, but how do they play? > http://cgi.ebay.com/FRENCH-HORN-DOUBLE-LIDL-FREE-SHIP-USA_W0QQitemZ320018067598QQihZ011QQcategoryZ16215QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem > The short version: It is not a double horn. It is a compensat

[Hornlist] Prinzregententheater

2006-07-28 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- hans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No chance, as > I (me personally !!) have found & saved the full RING > orchestra parts when they restaurated the Munich > Prinzregententheater (equal in the interior design to the > Bayreuth Festival Hall). Does the Prinzregententheater also have the same ty

RE: [Hornlist] Confusing.........

2006-07-22 Thread Klaus Bjerre
It is a blessing, that a couple of members (one of them being you, Hans) knowledgeable about the old terms have entered this thread. But what are the differences between Aramäisch aramæisk Aramaic Aramean aside from endings fitting national grammar practises. And then national practises of

Re: [Hornlist] Re: German translation

2006-07-21 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I am grateful towards Christopher Earnest, as he saves me from being impolite towards somebody spelling her ignorance out in capitals. Very literally so. When it comes to reading German, I in list contexts am aware of very few members of this list surpassing me. They all are working in German or

Re: [Hornlist] PPPPP-FFFFF

2006-07-17 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- WIlliam Botte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps the composers are guilty of hubris and hyperbole? Or common > sence. > --wabotte I never specialised in Russian composer, but what trickled down through my musicological studies was, that any indication of dynamics always is relative. Some

Re: [Hornlist] biblical trumpets

2006-07-17 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Our resident cabbagatologist as usually is very smart. He even gets his spelling almost right! We shall not discuss neither religion. nor politics, especially in these troublesome days. Yet I may briefly tell of my own standing. I am brought up in a very liberal Protestant family environment, b

Re: [Hornlist] Recording

2006-07-16 Thread Klaus Bjerre
We are approaching NHR territory here, but I am most surprised about film being the medium in the said fine recordings. When I went to school from 1954 trough 1966, video was not available. The Danish state had a pedagogical film-service covering especially historical, biological, and geographi

[Hornlist] Re: [horn] Repair

2006-07-10 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Joe Sellmansberger still is doing business in superb repairs to a degree, that he has to be very restrictive and selective in the jobs he is accepting. I happen to be on the list of his accepted customers, and he has done a very fine sousaphone job for me. Joe and I will pull every leg possible

Re: [Hornlist] Ebay #220002157686

2006-07-10 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Ms Lisa Honeycutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FRENCH HORN DOUBLE CZECH 1910 > > Anyone have any experience with these instruments? > There was no Czech Republic in 1910. The instrument, a compensating double, still looks like a pre-WWI Bohemian instrument originally built to hig

Re: [Hornlist] Haydn Symphony No. 46

2006-07-06 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Interesting that most Haydn is B Alto and H Alto while there is plenty of B > Basso > in the works or Mozart, and I can only think of the two minor keyed > symphonies where there is B Alto. Mozart wrote a few symphonies in Bflat...24 > and 33 I > know..are those

Re: [Hornlist] Venice and Prague

2006-07-02 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Per Ottar Gjerstad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > costs.> > > > what shop was it? Engstrøm & Sødring in Borgergade, formerly in Palægade. Their fairly large catalogue of newer Danish music is kept alive by the owners, but there is no street-front store. Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre ___

RE: [Hornlist] Venice and Prague

2006-07-02 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Both cities are quite poor regarding music shops - as > elsewhere. Shops do not stock anything extra from very basic > stuff. It is a pity. Very few cities have really good music shops. Rents are skyrocketing. My favourite Copenhagen store has folded

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - 2

2006-07-02 Thread Klaus Bjerre
ut > with Gruberova & her husband as conductor, it is bearable. > Happily, it was my lastr NORMA. > > = > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: [Hornlist] Web Resources (was Norma - 2)

2006-07-01 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I am eternally grateful towards people making resources available on the web, and I am no less grateful towards those helping me finding these resources. I have read the overture and the second act, because the score tells me a whole lot about period scoring practises in Italy. I did not find th

RE: [Hornlist] RE: Norma - horns

2006-07-01 Thread Klaus Bjerre
> another crook. > > "In macanza" means clearly "missing". They cannot be missed > as they have another solo just few lines earlier. > > Kindest greetings > > Hans > ==== > ==

[Hornlist] RE: Norma - horns

2006-07-01 Thread Klaus Bjerre
You brought up the topic, Hans! I cannot tell you anything about opera or about Italian. Let alone about the horn. But I can tell you about laziness in a field, where we both have worked: engraving. And about a musical practise in a field, where I have worked as well as a player and as a writer

Re: [Hornlist] What causes a horn to slot well?

2006-06-19 Thread Klaus Bjerre
A wide bell throat and a speedily expanding leadpipe diminishes slotting. But the mouthpiece is a factor also. The more narrow and the longer the cylindrical "throat" portion of the mpc is, the better the total set-up will slot. When I was in full playing shape, I hated tight slotting, as my fai

RE: [Hornlist] Bruckner 4

2006-06-17 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Possibly making a complete fool of myself as I am too lazy to refer with score or old vinyl (Barenboim/Chicago in my case, pretty impressive). As I remember B4, it is the one with the massive unisono horn fanfares in Bb concert (written F major in the F horn parts). This induces a question of m

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Overtones, etc.

2006-06-03 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I have read some of the postings on this thread, and see no reason entering into any personal discussions or even dogfights. My ears can hear single overtones and overtone patterns, even if I cannot write them down like a computerised spectral analysis. Right now I am listening to Grétry, A

RE: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Good explanation and more in depth than mine! Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- Steve Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Klaus Bjerre wrote: > > -snip- > > > During my musicological studies, I have been quite a bit > > around jazz theory. And there the same ch

RE: [Hornlist] Music Theory for Josh and others

2006-05-21 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Steve Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have all read Steve’s fine posting, so I won’t quote it. It made me wonder, why I never really can remember the precise composition of the Napolitan chord. So I found it on a web page, and then I knew why: During my musicological studies, I have

RE: [Hornlist] Lacher - Salve mundi Domina

2006-05-19 Thread Klaus Bjerre
====== > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Klaus Bjerre > Sent: Friday, May 19, 2006 4:04 AM > To: The Horn List > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Lacher - Salve mundi Domina > > I very much un

Re: [Hornlist] Lacher - Salve mundi Domina

2006-05-18 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I very much understand, why you are puzzled. Certainly too early for the valved horn, and not much later than the Mozart concertos, which display a more advanced usage of the hand horn, than seen in most, if not all, of the ensemble horn writing of the time. Most notes would be possible by a ve

Re: [Hornlist] Snobbery vs. Knowledge

2006-05-16 Thread Klaus Bjerre
15, 2006, at 10:00 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > message: 9 > > date: Mon, 15 May 2006 09:32:55 -0700 (PDT) > > from: Klaus Bjerre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > subject: RE: [Hornlist] horn advice > > > > If you had read my post thoroughly, you would have not

RE: [Hornlist] horn advice

2006-05-15 Thread Klaus Bjerre
to meet those at > their level, who even have difficulties to spell their own > name right, who have difficulties typing a composers name > right, etc. or even cannot say the full ABC in a row without > mistakes. > > > === > &

Re: [Hornlist] RE: [NHR] horn advice

2006-05-15 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I didn’t get the ATM thing, but elsewise my linguist side was delighted. Your very much dog owning Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- Christopher Earnest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > FWIW, I pretty much agree with Klaus in this discussion. Intentionally > sloppy writing, in email or anywhere else,

RE: [Hornlist] horn advice

2006-05-15 Thread Klaus Bjerre
! Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- Carlberg Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At 8:31 AM -0700 5/15/06, Klaus Bjerre wrote: > > . . . you are way off on your point! > > > Greetings. > > This is an example of being personal when it would serve better to > addr

RE: [Hornlist] horn advice

2006-05-15 Thread Klaus Bjerre
to criticize the writing of my students in the college papers they > submit to me, but an Internet mailing list is, in my opinion, a place where > more modern useage of the language is acceptable. That's it's not my style > doesn't make it inappropriate here. > > Just m

RE: [Hornlist] horn advice

2006-05-15 Thread Klaus Bjerre
The original posting represents no linguistic disability, just laziness. It displays the very sad tendency of US-based youth to skip the usage of the shift key. I have studied linguistics a university level, English was my sixth language (is the second today), I can read about 12 languages, I c

[Hornlist] Modern performances of baroque music

2006-05-13 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Hans Pizka has told of the Munich performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare, where the first horn has a quite exposed entry, on top of two pairs of horns, at the opening of the last scene of the 3rd act. Hans told of the top part being in F. A year or so ago I on Danish TV watched the re-premiere of

RE: [Hornlist] tubing

2006-04-19 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Hans is right! It is helpful to be able to read a few languages. One of the more interesting books I have read on brasses, was the official GDR curriculum for the education of brass craftsmen upon to the Meister level. This does not imply, that I can neither repair nor design brasses, but as t

Re: [Hornlist] Eb Horn??

2006-04-13 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > question...does anyone now own or play an Eb HORN??? I am most curious about > the fingering > sequence. During large parts of the last century single F horns intended for band usage were delivered with an alternative Eb main tuning slide, and the valve slides

[Hornlist] RE:OT - Haydn trumpet concerti (+acoustics and history)

2006-04-13 Thread Klaus Bjerre
The differences in measurements are quite natural. You use the real lengths of the instruments. I use the theoretical lengths at A=443 at the temperature of 20° Celcius, which gives an air speed at 343 metres/second All brass instruments are shorter, than they "should" be, as the bore and bell

RE: [Hornlist] OT - Haydn trumpet concerti

2006-04-13 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Hans , you may know of my interest in brass instruments history, so I will write a “few” lines why you issue your statement as a logic extension of your and mine common Austrian-German-Danish still alive tradition of natural Eb trumpet, in the length of an alto horn, which in our modern pitch th

Re: [Hornlist] Low Horn Trill Range? Low Pedal Tone Range?

2006-03-22 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Just about any trill can be made all over the range of the horn. Only it is not all trills, which are equally easy. Trills across two partial will be OK as lip trills in the upper register for people inclined to the natural horn, but they are not advisable in any register, if there is any valve

Re: [Hornlist] James Levine and the Boston Symphony Wash. Post article.

2006-03-18 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Matthew I can only thank you so much for quoting this article! You may know me as one of the odd men out on the list (please go 500 miles south for the orther one). As a musicologist I barely can bear listening to music any more. A totally no fun situation! My relationship with music mostly is

Re: [Hornlist] horns on ebay

2006-03-15 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Paul, you are the elderly (even compared to me) wise guy! How did you acquire a single parrot tuned in F albeit being a bit flat? Was it a male or a female? Was it an Ara or a cockatoo? Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre --- Paul Mansur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey! If you're looking for a decorat

Re: [Hornlist] multiphonics

2006-03-14 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I haven’t read the Kirby text, and Hans’ summation is very good. The stuff isn’t new to me, as I used it on the bass trombone, where it is much easier due to the much larger mouthpiece & bore and the resulting very reduced resistance. I had been around a few brass band instruments until I came t

[Hornlist] Please no lamps!(Was: start off on an F horn?)

2006-03-05 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- "Hans.Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why still keeping these junk horns or horn ruins ? Convert > them to lamps instead playing them. > > There are no really bad horns, but a majority of weak > players. Their weakness starts with their negligence to > principles of playing & maintaining

[Hornlist] Taking a look at the Transposing thread

2006-02-27 Thread Klaus Bjerre
The modern orchestral horn has developed from the natural horn over the invention horn (with national variants like the Cor Solo). Composers and players fought to make the most out of the natural horn, as it represented a beauty and depth, which could not be dismissed despite the lack of an unbr

Re: [Hornlist] Horn/Brass in China

2006-02-22 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I have, like Hans, a memory, which most humans would want to have themselves. I know the Chinese culture intensely from having been the letterwriter and legal assistant of a Chinese family for over 10 years. I even have gotten one family member out of jail by a simple phone call. I could at the

Re: [Hornlist] Need Bb Single Horn Advice

2006-02-05 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Kent Spielmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been reading the posts on Denis Brain's horn. I > seems hard to imagine he made that beautiful sound on > a Bb. I thought they were just for converted trumpet > players. That’s the way it has been used in the German military bands through le

Re: [Hornlist] Bach b1102

2005-12-23 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 12/23/05 10:17:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > There were/are at least 3 more Yamaha Custom  horn models: > > > > > Klaus, > Yamaha did not have equal worldwide availability on all of their Custom > models. > Some were more eas

Re: [Hornlist] Bach b1102

2005-12-23 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > In a message dated 12/23/05 5:22:09 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > their student instruments usually play as well or better than their custom, > > hand made horns of the same design. > > > > Yamaha's Custom Series (800 models) included the following: >

Re: [Hornlist] Bach b1102

2005-12-22 Thread Klaus Bjerre
If the Bach is new, it is made by Yamaha: I don’t know exactly, which of the Yamaha’s it is equivalent to, but it hardly is one of the pro-level models. Klaus --- Donnie Gamble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a student that is considering purchasing a Bach B1102 double horn. > It's about

RE: [Hornlist] Wagner tubas with only 3 valves

2005-12-04 Thread Klaus Bjerre
n any with 3 valves ??? Be so kind & email > these pictures to me for some identification. > > Greetings > > Hans > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Klaus Bjerre > Sent: Sunday, Decembe

[Hornlist] Wagner tubas with only 3 valves

2005-12-04 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Hans’s posting on the repertory was very interesting. It may be known, that I have an interest in the history of instruments as expressed in photos. My brass galleries no way can be used as a basis for scientifically based statistics. Yet I have found or have been given photos of 3 Bb Wagnertub

[Hornlist] Danish Christmas music for free

2005-11-25 Thread Klaus Bjerre
extended signature: My download homepage has a link for the index of all my uploaded music files. You can download them for free, when I have received your reply to my “Welcome”-mail. Players already approved for the group in question of course have direct access. Klaus Bjerre of Denmark Retired

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Hey, This Looks Pretty Much Like Alexander 103

2005-11-22 Thread Klaus Bjerre
This thread has been widespread and interesting. I will see, if I can add a few comments getting around to most of the points touched. I believe Hans, when he says, that Alexander didn’t renew the patents. But with the popularity of the Alex 103, one might wonder, why no other makers have succ

RE: [Hornlist] Hey, This Looks Pretty Much Like Alexander 103

2005-11-19 Thread Klaus Bjerre
ome"-mail. Players already approved for the group in question of course have direct access. Klaus Bjerre of Denmark Retired teacher Index over 45MB+ of free music files in .pdf format to be found in the Files area of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterBBb/ (Approved membership requ

Re: [Hornlist] What is "bell tone"

2005-11-06 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Steve Freides <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My son's County Band music - first rehearsal tomorrow - says "bell tone" for > a few measures. We didn't think to ask his teacher, who we won't see until > after the rehearsal. The bell tone effect is an emulation of a series of bells ringing like f

Re: [Hornlist] Music for horn, clarinet, and piano

2005-11-05 Thread Klaus Bjerre
--- Kathrynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello-- > Can anyone recommend some good arrangements of Christmas music for horn, > clarinet and piano (any level of difficulty)? Honestly I am quite surprised, that there have been no replies to this posting, so I will try to make suggestions in a m

Re: [Hornlist] Christmas music for brass quintet and organ

2005-11-03 Thread Klaus Bjerre
il. Players already approved for the group in question of course have direct access. Klaus Bjerre of Denmark Retired teacher Index over 45MB+ of free music files in .pdf format to be found in the Files area of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterBBb/ (Approved membership required) Index over 2

Re: [Hornlist] Unusual Horn

2005-11-02 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Paul has sent me some photos, and my initial suspicions were fully confirmed. Aside from one-off creations for disabled horn players right-handed horns always are military horns from two European countries: Italy made them with pistons. I own a such single F made by Saporetti & Capelli of Firen

Re: [Hornlist] Unusual Horn

2005-11-01 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Please send a thorough photo documentation to me. Already from your text I have a strong suspicion about the maker and the history behind the horn. Blue print type shots of front and back, thorough documentatition of valves and stays, plus fully readable shots of all engravings. Klaus [EMAIL P

[Hornlist] Low range horn 5-tet with two fairly difficult solo parts

2005-10-30 Thread Klaus Bjerre
my "Welcome"-mail. Players already approved for the group in question of course have direct access. Klaus Bjerre of Denmark Retired teacher Index over 45MB+ of free music files in .pdf format to be found in the Files area of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMasterBBb/ (Approved

[Hornlist] Composition Contest For Brass Chamber Music

2005-10-30 Thread Klaus Bjerre
One of my private correspondents, the tubist Tony Clements of San José, asked med to spread this announcement: The Humboldt Brass Chamber Music Workshop Announces Composition Contest For Brass Chamber Music Composition should be an original, previously unpublished, work for brass octet (312.11

RE: [Hornlist] OT: currency exchange of old currency

2005-10-24 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Hello Hans and Bob I have done quite a number of private instrument imports from Germany. When I investigated the cheapest way to transfer my payments, I learned that all incomming registered mail to Germany is scanned. It is by German law prohibited to send cash of any sorts into German via re

Re: [Hornlist] That old marching issue (Was:Mouthpieces and Horn Balance)

2005-09-30 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Today I'm depressed because my eyesight and sense of balance is decreasing at increasing speeds. My has aphasia long been a problem. I’m asking for no pitty, but I can’t see the problem treated in this thread. I had to give up regular brass playing 3 years ago. I was gifted with an extremely ef

[Hornlist] Julius Caesar

2005-08-20 Thread Klaus Bjerre
Hans ought to be online now with his Munich experiences not being too old, but then there are so many other knowledge pools available on this fine board. DRTV1 just finished a direct transmission from our Royal Theatre of Händels Julius Caesar with Andreas Scholl singing the lead. The orchestra w

Re: [Hornlist] odd request

2005-08-18 Thread Klaus Bjerre
on 18/08/05 16:39, Erin Block at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was wondering if anyone had or knew where I could get a horn that has been > smashed flat? My husband and I (both amateur musicians) are redecorating and > think an old horn that's met the roller would make an interesting wall piece > i

[Hornlist] Fuchs clarinet/horn duets

2005-08-18 Thread Klaus Bjerre
If David is unable to distribute his scanned .zip file for the time being I am willing to distribute that file exactly as I received it from David. Please direct your requests directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] with Fuchs being part of the header. And please do accept, that I for practical rea

Re: [Hornlist] Max Enders

2005-08-16 Thread Klaus Bjerre
on 16/08/05 10:02, William Melton at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Bill, the horn must postdate the earliest Kruspe compensating doubles > by at least a few years, as our best sources put Max Enders hanging > out his shingle earliest in 1900 or 1902. Enders, originally from > the Roehn region in sou

[Hornlist] Single Bb horn with 3 pistons and Stellventil

2005-08-13 Thread Klaus Bjerre
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Old-Brass-French-Horn-Rich-Schicvyez-Krefeld_W0QQitemZ 7342288093 displays a horn with a not very usual valve block. The makers name, "Schicvyez", hardly has been spelled correctly. Somebody out there with knowledge on a horn maker from the German town of Krefeld, which is

Re: [Hornlist] Bach Suites for Horn?

2005-07-03 Thread Klaus Bjerre
> From: "Aleks Ozolins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Don't transpose! Just play it as is from the Cello part... works well. The cello version, in .pdf format, can be downloaded for free from this page: http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer/J.S.Bach.html You will have to scroll about 75% down

[Hornlist] Ganter web page

2005-06-14 Thread Klaus Bjerre
I have, with no success, tried to google my way through to the Ganter of Munich web page. Is the company defunct by now? Klaus ___ post: horn@music.memphis.edu unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.o

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