Ever heard about Verdis opera "Falstaff" - last act. Nice farts from 2nd & 4rth horn on low E, bottom E, written on the first ledger line below staff if modern bass clef is used. A big mess always, as this entrance is not to be a loud fart but one of the tricky stinky ones. Much poot-poot to get the note. Big laughter, hysterical laughter, while the first horn has to continue with the very sad melody. They try to make me laugh too, but unsuccessfully. Technique: if emotions or laughter is coming up, think "sauerkraut" & everything works as usual.
Another famous fart instrument is the Contrabassoon, e.g. in Petrouchka. ========================================================= -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Goldberg Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 9:02 PM To: The Horn List Subject: [Hornlist] de profundis On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Hans Pizka wrote: (re: farting) > PS: By the way, we had this discussion before. And a related subject that came up long ago: there are some musical works in which an instrument is called upon to simulate a fart. Therefore, serious hornists ought to practice the nuances so as to produce a high quality fart. The only one I remember occurs in the musical "Canterbury Tales", and it is written in the horn part as a low Bb. The effect was a real crowd-pleaser, but in all seriousness it had to sound just so, not underdone or overdone, and that took some experimentation. A little different every night, of course. On stage, an actor was on a ladder trying to sneak into a woman's bedroom, and instead he got mooned and took one in the face. At the time I didn't quite understand why the horn was selected for this honor over the trombone, but I suppose that it makes sense - with proper hand technique, the pitch can be rolled about as well as a 'bone could do it using the slide. The guys behind me seemed envious - I heard them practicing farting also. I'm grateful that we didn't come to blows. { David Goldberg: [EMAIL PROTECTED] } { Math Dept, Washtenaw Community College } { Ann Arbor Michigan } _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/hans.pizka%40t-online.de _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] set your options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
