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Re: Hosaphone

To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Hosaphone
From: "Lindsay Price" <topclass1@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 07:02:40 EST
Priority: low
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>From: "Alec Gallagher" <alec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Re: Hosaphone
>Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2000 22:24:07 +0100
>
>-----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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>From my student days I seem to remember being made to watch a film of the
great Dennis Brain (acompanied by one of the London orchestras) playing a
"Hosepipe Concerto"

Regards
Lindsay Price (former french horn player and curently solo tenor horn, City
of Greater Dandenong Band, Melbourne, Australia - no, not all french horn
players look down their noses at tenor horn players).


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