On Apr 24, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Johannes Gebauer wrote:
Not that I really know anything about this, but I was under the impression that a Zugtrompete is in fact a trumpet, with a sliding device. I have seen such instruments played.
This is correct. That such instruments actually existed is beyond question. That they are what Bach had in mind is strongly supported by his use of them: to double the soprano line in chorales, and where the soprano line takes a cantus firmus. Note that this not only puts the instrument up in the trumpet range, but makes allowance for its technical limitations by providing it only slow notes to play.
Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/
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