[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: Baritone/Baritone - alto cornet?

To: Les Benedict <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Baritone/Baritone - alto cornet?
From: Graham Young <gyoung@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 1994 13:00:26 -0500
In-reply-to: <199702200317.TAA20646@zook.lafn.org>
Priority: low
Reply-to: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

On 19-Feb-97, Les Benedict wrote:
>> >To add to the language mystery, has anyone heard of an Alto Cornet?  The

>> >Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra are playing Mozart Requim soon, and
>> >whilst sorting out the parts, came across an alto cornet part!  ???

>Mozart didn't know about it, but the California Gold Rush Band uses an Eb
>alto cornet made by Conn in about 1880.

????

It's hard to know about something when you've been dead for 87 years.


 It's configured like a conventional
>Bb cornet, but pitched the same as an Eb horn. I suppose there could be a
>connection, historically.

>Les Benedict
>ag799@xxxxxxxx


-- 
Trumpets and Soprano Cornet
Symphony Hamilton, McMaster Chamber Orchestra
Weston Silver Band, Celebration Brass
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Graham Young
(905)575-8440


--
unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to
listserv@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

References:
- Re: Baritone/Baritone - alto cornet?
  - From: Les Benedict

Next by Date: Re: Baritone/Baritone - alto cornet?
Previous by thread: Re: Baritone/Baritone - alto cornet?
Next by thread: Re: Baritone/Baritone - alto cornet?
Index(es):
- Date
- Thread