Thanks for advertising my horns, but I have to add a few words. My section of ten horn players has 9 Alex103 and my Pizka Classic. It is not the horn alone which makes the music, it is the user, the player. You can use my horns for the delicatest chamber music & play like a flute, and also to play Heldenleben, Alpine Symphony, the RING, etc.
In the opera - we just do a semi-new Othello tonight - you need to play loud & very loud sometimes, often with some extreme loud hits, but also the softest nearly fading out pianissimo, but still carrying, singing like the voices on stage. I admit, I could do (nearly) the same with one of the beautiful Engelbert Schmid horns, which belong to the finest making standard, but as they sound too easy, I would lose some off the power within a short time span of about three months, and THEN ? They are too thin in material, as you said about other brands. And the sound concept (Bb sound colour) is too different from mine, coming from the F-sound. But this is just a personal preference. One thing bothers me most: THIS PARANOIA about just 8D country or Alex103 country, but playing with a sound lacking all overtones, all sweetness, all feelings, but playing exclusively with the one brand & NOT allowing ANY other in the section, even at amateur or semi professional level. The sound like if the horn were made of PAPER "(Pffffth, Pfffft)", understood. If it were made of plastic or aluminium. This is really PARANOIC. Listening first to the sound output, open the mouth later for critics. That�s it, not just LOOK & open the mouth. ========================================================== -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2004 7:43 AM To: The Horn List Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Tired and Stiff Lips Although I'm still looking forward to trying one, everyone with experience who has played a Pizka horn raves about it. �More importantly to me, as an engineer, is, from my study of the published specifications, the playing descriptions indicate the horn works exactly as it was designed. _______________________________________________ post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe or set options at http://music.memphis.edu/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
