At 3:33 PM -0400 6/4/05, shirling & neueweise wrote:
for the horn player in you:
i don't recall ever seeing this anywhere before, but a client has
indicated harmon mute for horn (small orchestra for opera). does a
harmon mute exist for horns?
cheers,
jef
Never seen one, never seen one in a catalog, never heard one. Wa-wa
horn?????? Of course "Harmon" is a company name, as far as I know,
and the company may well make a horn mute of some kind. Just because
"harmon mute" is universally recognized as the trumpet/trombone wa-wa
mute with a plunger that can be extended or removed doesn't mean that
it might not indicate a specific horn mute, but I certainly wouldn't
use that designation. Ask your client. All we can do is guess.
Basically there are two kinds of horn mute, a straight mute that's
non-transposing (with a sound I don't care for) and a transposing
mute (requiring the player to finger up a half-step, unless it's down
a half-step) that mimics the sound of hand stopping.
John
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