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Re: alternative instrument for a horn player

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Subject: Re: alternative instrument for a horn player
From: <Robert_C_Knight@xxxxxxxxxx> id xma017142; Mon, 20 Apr 98 11:18:50 -0400 id AA25755; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 11:18:48 -0400
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 16:16:45 +0100
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From:     Robert C Knight @ SB_PHARM_RD
Date:     20-Apr-98 04:16:45 PM
Subject:  Re: alternative instrument for a horn player
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Maybe someone out there can fill us in on the history of band instruments.
I had the vague notion that the main instruments (bass, bari, tenor horn,
flugel, cornet, sop) were all saxhorns, and that the idea was a "family" of
instruments with similar characteristics in different ranges, much like a
string quartet or in early music a consort of viols, recorders, shawms or
whatever: each of these groups has the ability (in theory at least) to
blend so well that it sounds like a single instrument. On that basis other
instruments might be added for special effect, but not as part of the main
ensemble.

Bob Knight
Flugel, Blewbury & District Brass Band
Blewbury, South Oxfordshire, UK

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