On Jun 4, 2005, at 7:35 PM, John Howell wrote:
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
The hand-stopping mute is the one that kind of looks and sounds like a
Harmon; that might be what he is intending. In our little big band
(medium band?) Altsys Jazz Orchestra, we have a french horn, and he has
discovered that the stopped mute is the one that fits best with the
trumpets in Harmon. And he has a horn cup mute, too, that sounds very,
well, unusual, if not exactly like a cup.
Nothing the trombones put in sounds like a Harmon, not even an actual
Harmon mute, so we use something else that doesn't disturb the blend
and balance too badly.
Christopher
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