On Jan 18, 2007, at 10:32 AM, Kim Patrick Clow wrote:
The conductor said it was one of the first recordings to use trumpets that didn't use those "tuning" holes that modern copies of baroque trumpets have to create a more tuned sound.
Some 30 years ago, Edward Tarr discovered that the intonation problems those holes were designed to fix came about because modern copies of Bq. trps. were too perfectly made. If you hand-hammer the instrument into shape, (as was done historically) it is just enough out of whack acoustically that it becomes possible to lip the problem notes into tune w.o the holes.
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