Hans - horn design has come quite a long way in the last 15 years - thus the predominance of triples rather than descants these days. Most professional players tend to also have a descant in their stable as well - though younger players are now sporting triples.
As you say - the right tool for the job! Sincerely Ken Pope Instrument Repair 80 Wenham Street Jamaica Plain (Boston), MA 02130 617-522-0532 http://www.poperepair.com > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:11:09 +0200 > From: Hans Pizka <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Triples > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Ken, very sorry, neither of the two solo horns in my former section ever > played > a triple in the orchestra, but we had single high F horns for our Haendel, > high Haydn > and high Mozart repertory (as we got extra paid for that, AND there is a > sound reason). > And what?the matter, changing the horns in a program: the right horn for > the right piece. > > I got a triple only many, many years after Wallendorf had left for Berlin > & after our > former third died, so I could buy these two horns from the opera for a > just a fictive > price. Well, I helped the opera for certain things, and instead asking for > a financial remuneration > I asked them for the two horns. Lucky, but I have never used them. They > rest in peace; > I might use them in case they be necessary, but I doubt that I will use > them as I left the > profession at age 65 with a last performance of Parsifal on first horn. It > was my first opera > also at age 17 with just one rehearsal on the same day, because my father, > principal then, > broke a tooth during breakfast that day. > _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
