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Re: re: F Horn in brass bands

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Subject: Re: re: F Horn in brass bands
From: Alastair Wheeler <alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 16:05:02 +0100 (BST)
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On Wed, 6 May 1998, Ian P Daly wrote:

> Kees, nobody on this list has mentioned the overpowering sound of the eupho.
> IMHO 2 euphos' is one too many. The F'horn has much to offer, it's just
> not written for. To dismiss it by saying it doesn't fit (blend) is

French horn facts:

one J. Foster was a french horn player.....
Up till the end of the 19th century, arrangments often had 4 horn parts.
They were marked for 'horns' and 'tenors' in pairs, a conjecture (in Roy
Newsome's recent book) being that the lower parts were played on, or
playable on, french horns.  In other words, they've been tried and
discarded.  In fact, all sorts of things were tried and found wanting in
the 19th century, un

> anachronistic. Tuned percussion didn't fit either until the 60's (?)Like

Eh?  Read Denis Wright.  We says, in about the 30s, 'some of the bigger
concert bands have...' and lists bells (diatonic in Eb) glock and Timps
(with a reminder to tune them :)  can't remember about xylophone.

> many things in the Brass Band fraternity, they are afraid to deviate
> from the given and try something a little different. Sure there's a
> place for the 'standard brass band' but some people are so narrow they
> can't see the music for the contest. LOL
> 
> Brass bandies would have to be among the most myopic fraternity in music. 
> Sorry folk, but look around you. Refer back to the posts about T'bone being
> written in F clef etc.. 
> 
> Ian, NFDOD

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  Alastair Wheeler
  Euphonium & Trombone			      Fundamental Brass
  Bass Trombone			     City of Oxford Brass Band
  Alastair@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx   http://ocn.new.ox.ac.uk/~alastair
  "I am following my fish"

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