[Hornlist] Another Kruspe question

2007-11-13 Thread Dawn McCandless
To All, Is the Kruspe single just another horn then to most people since it is a single horn? Or, could there be some significane to it because it is a Kruspe horn? I still have an old Getzen single F (Caravelle) sitting around the house that I picked up at an auction in town, cleaned and

Re: [Hornlist] Another Kruspe question

2007-11-13 Thread Carlberg Jones
At 7:34 PM -0500 11/13/07, Dawn McCandless wrote: . . . Kruspe is just a single student model . . . I love single horns. Last week the first player and I did the whole concert on single F horns. It was Beethoven Fidelio Overture, Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 and Beethoven Symphony 6. I

Re: [Hornlist] Another Kruspe question

2007-11-13 Thread Jerry Houston
Carlberg Jones wrote: At 7:34 PM -0500 11/13/07, Dawn McCandless wrote: . . . Kruspe is just a single student model . . . I love single horns. Last week the first player and I did the whole concert on single F horns. It was Beethoven Fidelio Overture, Liszt Piano Concerto No. 1 and

[Hornlist] Another Kruspe question

2007-11-13 Thread John Dutton
[Q] After spending many weeks taking just a single F (Conn 4D) to rehearsals and using it for the following concert, I got that particular monkey off my back. I'm convinced that practicing on a single F is good discipline, too. You just can't let yourself get sloppy. [/Q]

Re: [Hornlist] Another Kruspe question

2007-11-13 Thread Richard V. West
Dawn: A good single F horn, by virtue of its lighter mass and often cleaner arrangement of tubing, is often more responsive than the F side of an equivalent double horn. There is a Japanese website that has images from an old 1930s Kruspe catalogue that includes several single F models. The

Re: [Hornlist] Another Kruspe question

2007-11-13 Thread Steve Haflich
From: Richard V. West [EMAIL PROTECTED] A good single F horn, by virtue of its lighter mass and often cleaner arrangement of tubing, is often more responsive than the F side of an equivalent double horn. It follows that a good Waldhorn, by virtue of its lighter mass and often