Is that the Jeppesson who wrote the old book on counterpoint?
Bob Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Jeppesen: Lille Trio in d "La Primavera"
Despite being a Dane I was not aware of this music.
I came across this link:
http://searchworks.stanford.edu/vufind/Record/27
Clarification:
I meant to imply I 'played' the Chabrier, not wrote it... Otherwise I'm sure
I'd remember the publisher. ;-)
"...But to more directly answer your question, there is a rather good
arrangement of Chabrier's Larghetto with a smaller style wind ensemble. I
did it years ago, and don't r
Well, this doesn't quite fit your requirements, but you might like to know
about my orchestration of Victor Monti's Csardas for horn solo and band.
It's not super easy (;-)), but if I can play it, anybody can. It's for full
symphonic wind band. Rather spectacular.
Available from Thompson Editions,
I once fancied writing piano accompaniments to the entire Kling book (Intl
ed.). Might there be any market for something so goofy as that? My plan was
to use them to accompany my horn students, but some of those etudes might
make cute little encore pieces. (Much more so that the last of those Rossa
I'll stick my neck out here. I see some of this as another manifestation of
the postmodernist (dare I say 'decadence?') that has characterized the past
30 years or so. Our culture seems to do a lot of its art (and this includes
popular culture) as a reworking and reinterpretation of older forms. We
Tom, Ja... das ist richtig. I schtudied mitt der Herr Schmutzig fur das
uberhohennotentechniquengemahertonen besser machen auf der jahren 60s.
By the way, I wanted to add that doing the exercise with a perfect legato
between the two notes is even more challenging.
Bob Dickow
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I am trying to increase my range too, and have made some progress. I am
working on doing a whole octave now, with the goal of rising from the first
note to an octave higher on the second note. By transposing the second note
of the octave leap down an octave, I have found it to be much easier to
rea
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Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Re: Mason Jones
I used to check out the Schoenberg and Coleman from the Redwood City
California public library when I was in high school. I'm pretty sure that
lable.
KB
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date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 01:59:05 -0800
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Dan, I'm still looking for the Columbia
Dan, I'm still looking for the Columbia Records recording of the Philly
Quintet with Mason of course, playing the Schoenberg on side 1 and the
Ornette Coleman Quintet (!!) on the other. Seems to be a hard one to find,
because I sure can't.
Bob Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
University of Id
Hmm He's one of my publishers, so I hope this doesn't happen too often
to people!
Bob Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
Subject: [Hornlist] Thompson Edition: Advice for international customers
Hi everyone
I recommend everyone who uses Thompson Edition to purchase sheet music to go
for o
I have a mouthpiece problem too. Mine is developing heavy deposits of missed
notes, so I think I'll be in need of a new one soon.
Happy New Year everybody!!
Bob Dickow,
Lionel Hampton School of Music
University of Idaho
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By all means start at the real solo. Many classical concertos for various
instruments often have bits of 'warm up' or even doubled section parts
before the formal thematic solo statements. The 4th Concerto of Mozart's has
quite a bit of that stuff at the opening, but it would be a bit tedious to
li
Yesterday, while playing a concert with our regional symphony orchestra my
2nd valve rotor string broke at about the fourth staff of Mendelssohn's
Symphony #4 (Italian). I had to play the rest of the symphony on natural
horn. That turned out quite well, since I was able to cock the rotor spindle
ov
I have the same problem when I conduct. But I only have complaints when
there is a symbol clash in the percussion section.
Bob Dickow
>"When he conducted,
>he complained because of the clash between the
>pitch he was hearing in the score and the pitch
>he was hearing from the orchestra."
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Brahms did play horn a bit. I have a photo repro somewhere around here of
him standing with his waldhorn amidst a group of other hornists from the
Vienna Hornverein (not affiliated with IHS ;-). His posthumous horn etudes
are interesting too by the way, I've been playing them a bit lately for
curio
We have a 30 unit M.M. in music here at the University of Idaho's Lionel
Hampton School of Music. That could make a 1-year program if one took 15
credits a semester, which is possible if one does not have a Teaching
Assistantship or other responsibilities. However, in all the years I have
been on t
Carl, below, is not far off the mark. Gunther Schuller once, in rehearsal of
Tschaik #6, gave the Spokane Symphony a fairly long lecture on much the
same lines. That is, as Gunther assured us, Tschaikowsky wanted a finer
resolution of dynamics. Instead of just the conventional 8 levels or so
(ppp,
There is indeed such a transcription for winds. I played solo with it myself
back in 1967. I'm sorry to say though that I'm not much help, because I
can't recall the publisher.
Robert Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
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The expression 'en dehors' should indicate to be 'more', not 'less' in
musical performance, but it is admittedly not all that clear in musical
intent. In many contexts in spoken French conversion, one might say
'Dine-t-on en dehors cet après-midi?' ("Are we dining outside this
afternoon?"). However
Cuivré in French means 'brassy', but should not be stopped or muted. The
term 'bouché' literally means 'stopped,' which should not be muted. The term
'sourdine' would indicate muted. Words related to 'bouché' in French are
'bouchon' (bottle cork), which also is a slang word for a traffic jam.
(Embo
Years back I worked with a player in the San Francisco area who could not
flutter, hornistically or linguistically. No big problem for him, so it seemed.
However, I am not sure that this inability is due to a genetic or congenital
condition. I do know, on the other hand, that there is a known ge
believe that to be the case.
B
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San Francisco Symphony
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On Sep 17, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Robert Dickow wrote:
> Worse, Stravinsky writes W tuben in "B-flat alto" in
> Sacre, but that puts it one octave too high, so you have
Transposing is SO much a part of horn playing or Wagner tuba playing.
Last weekend we performed Strauss' Alpine Symphony and I covered horn VI
and B-flat tuben. Every time I play a tuben part I have to decode what
method the composer chose to write the part. Sometimes they are in bass clef
or
But then again, I have on occasion forgotten about my horn while playing it!
...that's on those really good days.
Bob Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
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(On Behalf Of John Dutton)
...
As to the person who left their horn in the trunk for two seasons in PA, I
... Re
Counting long rests isn't too bad a problem for me, and I even have a
reputation around here for being able to cat-nap briefly during long rests
and then miraculously wake up in time for the entry!* But one trick I do
use, when conscious, is: when counting sub-divided ultra slow tempos-- is to
doub
hornist has the will,
he/she will find the way.
I do not study or teach the natural horn myself. Not enough valves. I think
if they built a model with 3 or 4 valves I'd get a couple. ;-)
Robert Dickow
Associate Prof of Horn, Theory, Composition
Lionel Hampton School of Music
University of Idaho,
Hans,
"...What a pitty, that so many of you cannot remember
European names except Muller & Mayr. Just joking."
And, even more a pity when one considers that many of us over in the U.S.A.
have European names. ;-)
Robert Dickow (whose great grandpa came over to San Francisco from G
...or amazing how different horns sound the same when played by the same
person??!!
Wendell, remember when you had that gathering at the War Memorial Opera
House in SF and tried out all those different horns for friends out in the
hall? I heard only subtle differences in quality from horn to horn,
Jake's basically right, but I have many drain tubes permanently positioned
variously at different places on my MerkerMatic. After getting the valve
section tuned, after purchasing the horn, was important. But once set, I
don't think I've done much tuning or repositioning of them in many years.
All
The Holtons have a pretty tight wrap. For really young kids, I was really
impressed with the Boosey and Hawkes horn. It's wrapped up for toddlers or
something, but it's a full length horn. Just kidding about the toddlers
part. But, the tone was respectable, and it played more or less like a
regular
I compose for band from time to time, and though I personally have avoided
adding string bass parts, I think I'll begin to do so. I think they do add a
little bit of an 'attack formant' on the bass line, and although quite
subtle, the effect is audible and does contribute to a better sense of
trans
t
work, a WWII flying Ace crashing (probably a Mezerschmidt), and -- my all
time favorite -- a 14-wheel semi-trailer/tracktor combination! I do this
last one only in safe locations.
Robert Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
University of Idaho
Timothy F. Thompson, D.M.A. wrote:
> I
I've seen the 'down bow' with dot in contemporary scores to indicate a
fermata that is a bit longer than a standard curved fermata sign with which
we are familiar. In some scores the 'down bow' is provided a duration
indicator as well:
_ 5"_
| * |
Come to think of it, I've used these fermati s
John, The 'gunk' is not from poor oral hygiene. Rather, it is the
accumulation of missed notes. Avoiding wrong notes can reduce and in some
cases eliminate the gunk buildup.
Bob Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
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There should not ever be 'gunk' coming out of a horn..
The technique of emptying water out of the Holton without removing any
slides is curious indeed. It requires some real acrobatics, and it seems
like I'm always knocking the horn into a stand or grazing the top of one of
my students' heads or something, so I prefer to yank out the slide branches
and
ide from a
childhood period of strange (but extremely pleasurable) 'out-of-body'
experiences, I have been completely normal, unfortunately. ;-) (also, see:
Oliver Sacks et al on temporal lobe epilepsy/migrane equivalents)
Robert Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
-Original Messa
Aren't we being a little hard on ol' John Williams. Amongst the déjà vu
strains in his music, even some of those are quite brilliant (e.g. the
Asteroid Belt sequence in Star Wars V, which is reminiscent of Bernard
Herman's work for Hitchcock films), and other passages are very original and
quite l
parts were a gas too. The piece
is a massive work (80 minutes in the full version), rather strongly a mix of
Wagner/Strauss/Scriabin and John Williams ;-).
If you don't know the work, check out the London Symphony recording.
Robert Dickow
Lionel Hampton Schoo
I took one of my student's horns to the shop a month or so ago. The horn, a
university-owned Holton, just wouldn't play, and I instructed the shop to
look for either a foreign object in the horn, a reversed valve, or a leak.
Having done the preliminary investigations I was pretty sure it was
somet
Ha! Those horn players are all my friends in the Spokane Symphony!
Robert Dickow
University of Idaho
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I pulled out a commercial digital CD recording of somebody or other playing
horn some months ago, and was surprised to find the pitch WAY off standard.
This was common in the days of tape mastering, but with digital recording,
it means that some studio engineers or producers or whatever got in ther
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>But is
>Fafner male ? Couldn´t it be a female ?
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Fafner could be female after all, the Tarnhelm can transform one into
anything (even a toad!!), and maybe Fafner would indeed want to fulfil
certain other personal sexual fanta
ittle while into the rehearsal, he stopped the orchestra
and began to berate us for not playing loudly enough when the music was
marked ff. "It says FF!!! Play it loudly!!!"
...so much for a finer scale in the range of expressions.
Happy tooting,
Robert Dickow
Assoc Prof of Horn, Theo
Interesting idea, and I wonder how oftem people consider giving money to
bands. Our town band is funded through city Arts Commission funds, and I
guess they do ok at that.
Twin Falls Municipal Band is playing my 'Galena' at the end of July. I was
hoping to go an sit in the section but something ha
Pitch sense certainly is crucial to horn playing, but the 'feel' (or 'taste'
as I call it) for the production of pitches can serve perfectly well by
itself for accurate playing. I rely on it, since I don't have 'stage 3'
perfect pitch. I only 'hear' the pitch mentally in an almost abstract or
intui
It's the season for the 'Scam the Music Teacher' confidence game. Many of us
in the music department have received the scam that invites you to give
lessons to the 'daughter/son visiting your area for a few weeks'.
Do you think the Secret Service would be interested in this stuff?
Bob Dickow
Lio
can.
Ever hopeful...
Robert Dickow,
Assoc Prof of Horn, Theory, Composition
Lionel Hampton School of Music
University of Idaho
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Those early Strauss horn etudes only exercise rising sixth intervals, so
they may be of limited utility to hornists. ;-)
Bob
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This has exploration all been very interesting and I have to say that I am
not that surprised that the heirs of Herr Strauss may be reluctant to
Screw drivers are particularly dangerous items and should not be allowed on
planes. Terrorists could smuggle them on board and then disassemble the
plane in flight.
Bob Dickow
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After all these years, the x-ray at the Detroit airport took an interest
in the repair kit i
I seem to remember playing that La Gazza Ladra too. ;-)
But, then, you must have played the band transcription of Till
Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks in which the arranger put all the themes back ON
THE BEAT. So, imagine the opening horn solo starting on the downbeat and
continuing in like fashion...
Does anyone else share my feeling that a crescendo and a diminuendo makes
the sound appear to approach you and recede from you, respectively? I get
this feeling much more strongly in contemporary music in which there may not
be a harmonic rhythm that projects a phrase or other structural rhythmic
g
Maybe my firewall was acting up. Try it again.
Bob Dickow
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I tried the link but it doesn't seem to work for me.
The best piece ever written is my latest band piece: (;-)
http://216.98.232.41:8080
Galena is a symphonic march inspired by a trip up to the Galena Summit north
of Sun Valley. You come up to a spot where a vast valley spreads before you
(the Stanley Basin-- the horn section theme maybe), and to
Yes and no. Actually the rate of beating we might hear in an out-of-tune
unison is equal precisely to the difference in frequencies. So, a 440hz +
442hz = beating rate of 2 hz. This beating is due to interference, and
though we can't hear it as a 'tone' because it is too low a frequency, we
still c
Yes, I think Dukas named this in a romantic fashion, simply alluding to a
pastoral sort of mood in the piece, or a rustic quality or sentimentality. I
asked my son, a scholar of French literature, about certain words that
relate to ville, vile, villain (English), vilain, villanelle, etc
--Ale
I'm almost positive that I got my co-principal gig for a season with S.F.
Opera back in '69, in part at least, by successfully sight-reading a fairly
extended horn part in D-Flat horn at the auditions. I had never practiced
D-Flat horn, but once you are thoroughly familiar with keys and
transpositi
One of my composition students just gave our symphonic band a piece that had
some double low E's for the horns in bass clef. I tried to warn my student;
my less experienced students who have mostly band experience expressed some
anxieties about the low pedals, and admitted they didn't even know tho
Rob,
Your advice is sound, but as for me, after playing for 45 years with never a
broken a string, it's easy to become cavalier about this. Having written
that, a string will probably break on my next gig...
Bob Dickow
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e percussionists inserted a quick riff (BUGGA bugga
bump) on the tom tom set.
Visibly annoyed, the conductor responded "...and when I figure out who did
that, he's FIRED!"
Robert Dickow
Assoc Prof of Horn,Theory,Composition
Lionel Hampton School of Music
University of Idaho
don't 'warm down' at all. I figure I've been warming down as soon as I get
warmed up. However, I must admit that after really long, hard-blow
rehearsals, I will play a couple of notes before placing my horn back in the
case just to reassure myself that I can still play at all
stage, all the better.
Robert Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
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Subject: [Hornlist] Pirates of Penzance
Dear List
Pete Exline's description of the 'olden days' was fun.
Maybe the olden days really were the 'good old days.'
I was teaching at a little private college in Kentucky during
the late 70s until 1984. Our band was very small, only one
horn, no trombones, a couple of clarinets, etc. No orchestra
exis
Yes, I agree. Chemicals are not for non-experts. I only wanted to report
that I used a chemical product that is commonly sold here for mineral
deposit removal. The product is known as "CLR." It is non-corrosive and
relatively safe. I carefully tested it and found it did not react with the
metal. I
One of the most common reasons for sticky valves is excessive tension on the
strings used for the linkage. But, if you feel that there are still other
causes, such as corrosion, try the product known as CLR, a chemical normally
used for de-scaling coffeepots, faucet fixtures, shower heads, etc. I d
he lobby of the Lionel Hampton School of Music building on the
University of Idaho Campus. Spokane isn't too far from us, just so you know
where Moscow is.
Robert Dickow
Assoc. Prof of Horn/Theory/Comp
LHSOM
Editor, Northwest Horn News
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Some more thoughts on talent:
Musical talent might have a small inhereted component, but whenever a parent
comes to me considering horn lessons for their child, with a comment along
the lines of '..but I don't know if my son/daughter has any talent...' I
always reassure them that talent is probabl
Robert,
This is a broad topic, but I'll throw in a few quick thoughts/suggestions,
since I have had the opportunity to start students from 'scratch'and work
with very young and also older novices/inexperienced players (though not in
my usual university situation).
Some good method books to start
I transcribed Victor Monti's Csardas for horn solo and Symphonic Band. It is
available from Thompson Editions.
You can also listen to me hack my way through it at
http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/~dickow/hornsmp.html
I think this piece has been transcribed for every imaginable instrument and
instru
Some years back I had a student report me to the college dean because I had
the audacity to go one key too far around the spiral of fifths into a
'theoretical' signature that of necessity of course ended up with double
flats. I did it in a class demonstration to help the students understand the
con
After extended breaks of anywhere up to a year, I warm up carefully on the
Rossari etudes transposed to horn in A, then do Book VI of the
Maxime-Alphonse a couple of times through, with all the repeats. Then I'm
ready for a nice warm bath.
Just kidding.
I might get a good soaking now though.
Bob
You may often note small pools of water around the chairs of horn players.
This is due to all the dribble tonguing that they have to do.
Bob Dickow
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Health alert:
Orchestra musicians, especially lower brass players, often have to sit for
long periods of time without moving, but this can be a health hazard. Blood
may clot in the deep veins of the leg.
This condition is known as
Deep Vein Trombosis.
Oh boy. If it's any consolation, by brother-- a successful profession jazz
saxophonist-- had a lip cyst removed surgically with no ill effects. The
cyst was right where he had to apply lower lip pressure too as well.
I'm no expert, but if your physician is a good surgeon there should be no
real pr
Some years back Karlheinz Stockhausen was commissioned to write a piece for
symphonic band for, I believe, either UCLA or one of the univerisities in
Colorado, I can't recall. (Maybe somebody on the list has heard about this?)
A couple of years went by when the commissioners asked Stockhausen how t
I must say that it has enhanced my appreciation of
Wagner's music rather than detracted from it.
Robert Dickow
Assoc. Prof of Horn, Theory, Composition
Lionel Hampton School of Music
University of Idaho
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>
I kn
About mouthpiece pops once again...
I wrote my 'pops' in electronic + instrument ensemble pieces, but not as
'jokes' or gimmicks, but I used them because the instruments can make that
particular sound in only that manner, and can then interact with the
electronic sounds. I agree that many composer
e popping effect, however, was superb.
Robert Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
University of Idaho
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I have part of a piece done for brass quintet and bagpipes. Funny sound,
because the pipes are in A but it's really a bit closer to B-flat, and the
scale is kinda funky. Composing this is interesting, because modulating and
other situations are a challenge.
I play a little bombarde, a traditional
...and it's interesting that the typical non-musician French person is
equally confused as the rest of us about les différences entre cor anglais,
cor d'harmonie, cor chromatique, cor à pistons, cor d'orchestre, cor de
chasse, et coeur de lion. ;-)
Amicalement,
Bob Dickow
Univérsité d'Idaho
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Boy that's for certain, Hans. I won't forget the first time I played the
Wind Quintet of Schoenberg I had to do it off a part that was horn in C in
bass clef for the entire part pretty much. This was the way Schoenberg wrote
his score, and the copyist just copied what he/she saw. Nasty!
Bob Dickow
I've played those 'marching horns' (=mellophoniums) too, but believe it or
not it was in college jazz big band. We had a section of 4 mellophoniums.
Imagine me doing improv choruses with one of those babies in front of the
mic for thousands of people on Sproul Plaza in Berkeley. I wonder how many
o
Aren't those the 'alto horns' I used to play in high school during football
season...out on the ol' field at half time? I loved those
things...impossible to miss a note. And if I'm not mistaken these are also
known as peck horns.
Bob Dickow
Hampton School of Music
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Fr
I clean my horn with an 'unavailable in stores' lemon scented detergent
cleaner that I bought from a door-to-door salesman. You know those 'miracle'
products they sell on late-night television that claim to clean anything?
Well, it's that sort of stuff. I does a very good job around the house, so I
I'm puzzled. I always thought that 'brass protectors' were those funny
plexiglass things mounted on stands that the tech guys place between me and
the bassoon section ...
Bob Dickow
Lionel Hampton School of Music
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set your op
The strange visual 'waviness' patterns are due to interference between the
30 frames per second of the video horizontal
scan frequency and the frequencies of vibration in your head and
particularly your eyeballs. No kidding. Your head is strobing the video
image.
Bob Dickow
Lionel Hampton School o
Ha! Around here we call it "Beep n' Squawk" music. But I should be more
reverantI write some of this kind of music myself.
Robert Dickow
Lioneal Hampton School of Music
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Well...
I just discovered a simpler Long Call...
just play the Short Call really, really, really s l o w l y.
;-)
Bob Dickow
University of Idaho
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I noticed that many of the very lyric etudes by Henri Kling published for
horn (as in the International Music 40 studies ed. Chambers) are also
available for trumpet, but are attributed to the composer 'Wurm'.
Anybody know anything about the provenance of these Kling etudes?
Rob
>From: "Hans Pizka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>So I played the Munich audition, squeezing
>all ring muscles - you understand ?
Hans,
With all the Long Calls you have accomplished, I can certainly understand
what you mean by 'squeezing all ring muscles'.
Bob Dickow
University of Idaho
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While we hope students are prepared in theory, we have to start them from
scratch anyway. Preparation is very weak for many of them. Many only can
read one clef, and some can't read music at all, despite coming from band
experiences in high school. Our theory course starts from the most
elementary
Theory knowledge is helpful. I got a start in high school (early eary
morning!) and during summer school. Now, of course, I am a composer too, and
find myself putting cues in my opera parts of late using harmonic
progression symbols. My subs won't know what the heck is going on, I'll bet.
I don't t
Rather than lengthening the valve spatulas by gluing or soldering dimes on
them, why not try lengthening your fingers instead. Try some of the pills or
patches available on the internet now. They can lengthen your fingers (and
other things) by from 1 to 3 inches.
;-)
Bob Dickow
- Original Me
I have played various Holtons for years and tested dozens in showrooms, and
they do tend to play in tune and are fairly consistent in the Farkas line,
less so in the MerkerMatic range, IMO. I carefully evaluated about out a
couple of dozen or so Merkers before buying the one I have now. Each one
se
Farkas wrote that one should clean out the horn once a week. I hardly have
time any more to do ANYTHING once a week!
But it can be helpful. Ever hear the story about the time the late Herman
Dorfman (SF Symphony) was playing an orchestral solo during a concert and
his horn suddenly stopped up 100%
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Herb,
Did you correct for expansion of the horn itself at higher temperatures?
Bob Dickow
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> I had to pull the
Thanks everybody for all the great suggestions on horn feature+quintet
pieces.
Bob Dickow
Hampton School of Music
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Can anybody suggest a good piece for 'featured horn' with
horn in woodwind quintet or horn in brass quintet? I have
a couple (such as the Mozart Quintet) but need more
suggestions. It is for one of my students, and I have run
out of ideas. (Must be the weather... ;)
Bob Dickow
Hampton School o
If you can't actually sample several
horns at one time, as you could at
a convention (MENC), or IHS workshop,
try to get a horn shipped to you 'on
approval' from a major company such
as BrassWind/WoodWind, Giardinelli,
etc. I have had good luck paying for
shipping only, giving my credit card
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