I've only seen Harmon mute called for once in one of my parts and it was for a musical. The tpt and trb were both playing straight mutes in the passage, so I used my stopped mute. (I'm sure in the tpt and trb parts actually called for Harmon mutes, but this was an amatuer production and I don't think those players owned a Harmon mute.)
As a horn player, I just found it kind of annoying that the orchestrator didn't know enough about the instrument to know that a Harmon mute isn't common for the horn - perhaps non existant. Unless your client is writing for a hornist he KNOWS has a horn Harmon mute, I would recommend that he write the name of the mute that a hornist will actually use, most likely the brass mute. Ryan __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
