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RE: NABBA Instant Band (fwd)

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Subject: RE: NABBA Instant Band (fwd)
From: njh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Nigel Horne)
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 1997 17:59:25 GMT
Organisation: Wharfedale Computers Ltd.
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Just picking a nit...

A  french horn is just about as conical an instrument as you will ever find.  

True, it sounds very different from a tenor horn, (especially if the hornist 
plays with hand in bell, as in orchestra) but it IS a conical instrument.  
Perhaps the backwards pointing bell has something to do with the difference in 
sound,  but more likely, it is the larger bore overall of the tenor horn that 
is responsible...

my US$0.02...

Guy Clark
guyclark@xxxxxxx
principal cornet, Illinois Brass Band

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From: Trond Otto Berg
Sent: Thursday, February 06, 1997 6:23 AM
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: NABBA Instant Band

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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