20:48:34 +0100> From: daniel.canaru...@unifi.it> To:
> horn@music.memphis.edu> Subject: Re: AW: AW: [Hornlist] Re: Horn Digest, Vol
> 74, Issue 17> > - Message from c.j.l.w...@newcastle.ac.uk -> > >
> > > I just don't think the expla
Thanks Daniel,
I'm starting to agree with Martin that I've been thinking about it too
much... I'm happy to accept it's probably down to chance.
~~
I wrote to a friend who plays historical instruments for a living, and
just got the following reply:
"[Out of a collection of 200 horns] the
- Message from c.j.l.w...@newcastle.ac.uk -
I just don't think the explanation is complete.
In physics there is a very important mechanism called "symmetry
breaking": a physical system may set down in a state which breaks the
symmetry of the general laws it obeys to. In ma
The search term is 'catholic fingering' + whatever instrument you're
interested in. The historic brass society has an article on it:
The Catholic Fingering First Valve Semitone Reversed Valve Order in
Brass Instruments and Related Valve Constructions by Joe R. Utley and
Sabine K. Klaus, 2003 H
ect: Fwd: AW: AW: [Hornlist] Re: Horn Digest, Vol 74, Issue 17
From: Martin Bender
To: The Horn List
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From: Martin Bender
Date: February 12, 2009 9:20:45 AM GMT-05:00
To: c.j.l.w...@newcastle.ac.uk, The Horn List
Subject: Re: AW: AW: [Hornlist] Re: Horn Digest, Vol 7
And another one:
http://www.usd.edu/smm/Brass/Cornets/Graves/5257/5257Gravescornet.html
Kit
> http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php?show=./instruments/misc/Livain-fr-horn.jpg
>
> and
>
> http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php?show=./instruments/Senecaut/Senecaut-P-2-valve-FH.jpg
>
> Both of
http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php?show=./instruments/misc/Livain-fr-horn.jpg
and
http://www.horn-u-copia.net/picture.php?show=./instruments/Senecaut/Senecaut-P-2-valve-FH.jpg
Both of which have the tone valve 1st.
But!
http://www.usd.edu/smm/UtleyPages/DoublePistonValves/DoublePiston
Just a thought here-- try and imagine how much progress one might
achieve by re-focusing the same amount of (extremely valuable!) mental
energy expended in debating this pedantic issue, to practising
orchestral excerpts. In utmost deference to those involved, I believe
that one's time is be
> Kit, we do not live in the middle ages nor in the time of the Romans nor
in Germany or Austria after WW1, when they also drove on left side.
Neither do we live in the time of 2-valved piston horns. But the question
we're asking, is where and when do conventions originate? We can't discuss
these
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