At 1:40 PM -0400 6/6/07, Andrew Stiller wrote:
On Jun 6, 2007, at 8:23 AM, Christopher Smith wrote:
On Jun 5, 2007, at 9:37 PM, John Howell wrote:
At 11:17 AM -0400 6/5/07, Christopher Smith wrote:
I WOULD like to see Trumpet in Eb in the instrument list. When I
do orchestra transcriptions from the 19th C, there is a lot of Eb
trumpet, and I got caught the first time.
But were these Eb alto, same pitch as the British brass band solo
Eb cornet, or Eb basso, like the low F trumpet that was also
common?
High Eb is what I meant, between the piccolo and the Bb in size,
like the British Eb cornet. Very common instrument. I wouldn't call
that pitch Eb alto, as I would reserve that name for the alto horn
transposition.
Apologies. I adopted the French horn terminology automatically,
simply meaning the upper octave Eb instrument and the lower octave Eb
instrument. I do like Andrew's "tenor trumpet" as a much better
descriptive term.
John
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