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Re: Hosaphone

To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Hosaphone
From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 22:24:07 +0100
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Williams <JDW@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Steve Larwood <larwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 26 March 2000 21:06
Subject: Hosaphone

Thanks very much for the information and music regarding the
>Hosaphone.  I will put my flugel horn
>up for sale.   I have plenty of garden hose but what do I use for a bell ?

A funnel, of course!

>Honestly, I can see this catching on in this country.  Soon there could
Hosaphone band groups...

It's already been done.   Philip Jones  was using the hosepipe and funnel
decades ago to demonstrate to schoolkids the principles of how brass
instruments work, and the PJBE used to include a hosepipe quintet in their
concerts.

...and qualification to a grand Hosaphone Final at the
>Albert Hall, London...

I don't know about a contest, but the hosepipe idea came originally (I
think) from the Gerard Hoffnung comic concerts at the Albert Hall.  Hoffnung
wrote a hosepipe concerto for the late Dennis Brain.

Alec

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