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Re: Re: Royal Fireworks

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Subject: Re: [BRASS-BAND:5689] Re: Royal Fireworks
From: Simon Richards <s.richards@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 18:15:39 +0000
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On Tuesday 18 March 2003 18:00, John Gray wrote:

> Trumpets used to often have an "A" key to make life
> easier playing in sharps.  Which however depended on
> Composer or Arranger being obliging enough to write
> for same.  And older Fr Horn parts can be in every key
> under the sun owing to the use of "crooks" to achieve
> varying natural harmonics.

Not just horn parts, as any orchestral trumpeter will tell you. It is common
to have to transpose from parts written for trumpets in A, C, D, Eb, E (a
particularly nasty transposition for a Bb trumpet - up an augmented fourth,
placing you in the key of F#, with 6 sharps in the key signature) and F.
Sometime we even get parts in Bb!!

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