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Re: alternative instrument for a horn player

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Subject: Re: alternative instrument for a horn player
From: rbrookens@xxxxxxxx (Rick L. Brookens)
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 21:47:12 -0500
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Gene:
>French horns in [British-style] brass bands.  The Eb tenor horn is
>practically a "dead" instrument in North America, at least in the 
>school
>band programs.  Consequently, there are no players or people who have 
>Eb
>tenor horns.  If one wants to start up or keep alive a [British-style]
>brass band, what do you do?  You have to fill in the part somehow, and 
>the
>French horn is all we have.  It's either that, or no band at all.
>
>	Same comments apply to cornets and trumpets, here in North
>America. 
Couldn't agree with you more.

Starting a British brass band in the US is tough!  I'm gradually trying
to work into it with our group.  Using trumpets, (just try finding
cornets and then getting trumpet players to put down their Bach Strads!),
and French horns with flugel and Eb trumpet and lower brass, (try finding
an Eb tuba player in the States too!)   Not to mention treble clef
reading for lower brass.

Most do not even know what an alto or tenor horn is.

We are moving to more brass band literature- I just transpose for French
horns and bass clef instruments.

It is a lot of work, but we are getting it done.  Maybe some day......

Rick Brookens
Fort Wayne, IN
Community Brass Ensemble

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