Re: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle?

2009-02-07 Thread lewhorn9
Holton used to make one years ago! It was a pretty lousy horn. Walt Lewis Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: "Bill Gross" Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2009 09:14:27 To: 'The Horn List' Subject: RE: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle?

2009-02-07 Thread daniel . canarutto
- Message from william.s.gr...@gmail.com - And this answers for me why the F side is mounted on top of the B flat side. I always thought it should be the other way with the shorter slides on top, but it's now clear from the information y'all have provided the F slides on the bottom

RE: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle?

2009-02-07 Thread Bill Gross
ny horn players prefer to play as lip trills wherever possible anyway. Klaus --- On Sat, 2/7/09, Simon Varnam wrote: > From: Simon Varnam > Subject: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle? > To: horn@music.memphis.edu > Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 12:45 P

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle?

2009-02-07 Thread Steve Freides
On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 6:45 AM, Simon Varnam wrote: > that doesn't yet explain why this order has been chosen. Is it really due > simply to the order of adoption : tone, semitone, 3-semitone, plus the > inertia of the imported tradition? Isn't the practicality of having the > shortest slide betwe

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle?

2009-02-07 Thread Klaus Smedegaard Bjerre
players prefer to play as lip trills wherever possible anyway. Klaus --- On Sat, 2/7/09, Simon Varnam wrote: > From: Simon Varnam > Subject: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle? > To: horn@music.memphis.edu > Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 12:45 PM >

Re: [Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle?

2009-02-07 Thread hans.pi...@t-online.de
Simon, you are right about the rigid system of education, which is not only in Japan, but in many countries. Many band instructors around the world contribute much to this rigid system, as they are lacking most of the basic instructions themselves, thus being victims of these rigid systems themselv

[Hornlist] Re: Why is shortest valve slide in the middle?

2009-02-07 Thread Simon Varnam
Sorry about the delayed reaction: I received some private responses (Thank you!) and missed those which came only to the list until they reached me in the digest. m(_ _)m from: "hans.pi...@t-online.de" subject: Re: [Hornlist] Why is shortest valve slide in the middle? Simon, there are s