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Re: NABBA Instant Band

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Subject: Re: NABBA Instant Band
From: Trond Otto Berg <troberg@xxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Feb 1997 13:23:42 +0100
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Jack Alexander wrote:
> 
> I can't see why what is arguable the finest middle brass instrument should
> be excluded from brass bands.  In the good ol' days, maybe it was because
> (a) it was hard to find good french hornists and (b) you could always find
> some other three-valve player to fill in in an emergency, but nowadays
> there are lots of young french horn players coming up through school
> concert  bands and orchestras.

OK, that's rigth (may be), but there is one VERY important reason for
not using trumpets and frenc-horns in brassbands THEY DO NOT SOUND RIGTH
(because they are members of a other instrument family and tradition) 
Trumpets and Frenc-horns are not conical instruments like the Cornet,
Flugel-horn, tenorhorn, barytone, euphonium and tubas.  Trombones are
the only cylindrical instrument in a brassband.  One reason for this is
that trombones in early brass-music had a different role than the other
instruments, and other than today.  They where much more signal- and
fanfare-instruments than melodic instruments (Just listen to "Life
Devine" and "Labour and Love") 

-- 
  Trond  Otto Berg
  Principal
  Stranda Music School, Norway

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