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Re: Vibrato

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Subject: Re: Vibrato
From: John Hughes <hughesj@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 15:31:13 -0700
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Trond Otto Berg wrote:
> 
> Ngbland wrote:
> 

> > Whilst trumpet playing may slightly damage the tone on a cornet
> > it can only be a bonus to play different styles and improve players
> > musicianship (i.e transposing, jazz phrasing,swing rhythms)
> 
> SLIGTHLY DAMAGE THE TONE (????)  If you play trumpet as your main instument,
> your cornet sound is TOTALY damage and you should stay long away from the
> traditional British Brass Band.
> 
> > traditional brass bands must realise this is the modern age
> > and  brass bands do play more up tempo music which benefits
> > from trumpet playing and does not benefit from sounding like
> > P McCann
> >
> > Neal
> > Trumpet/Cornet player
> >
> 
>  THE MODERN AGE,  What do you mean by that????????   The brass band tradition is
> over 150 yars and have developed from day one.  And a good and musicaly
> developement is nesecerry to get a audiece, but the development must be in the
> tradition.   There is one thing I just cant understad;  WHY do all these trumpet
> and/or french-horn player comes into the brass-band movement when all you want
> to do is to destroy it?  In my opinion it is because the brassbands have more
> intersing music than the wind-bands, and thet there are way to few "profesional
> chairs" in the orcestras for the horde of trumpeters getting out of univerity.
> Therefore they join the brassbands and when they are inn they imidietly start
> reforming it to a "symphonic" souding band of brass players.
> 
> Why do we, the traditionalists, accept this interferece.  What would have happen
> if we had come to a wind band/symphony orcestra with our brilliant Eb-tenorhorn
> palyers, our exelent Sopranos .........  Would the "winders" accept it like we
> accept the trumpetsound of our trumpetplayers?  Definetly NOT.
> 
>   Trond  Otto Berg
>   Traditionalist (that think P.McCann is the best sounding cornetplayer in the
> last 20yars)
> 
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Trond Otto Berg - You are so right!


			       John Hughes


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