I need a leadpipe for my Holton H-179. If you have one that you
keep tripping over and that you've sworn to sell before one
more year goes by, now may be your last chance.
Let me know,
jrc in SC
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...make a simple sketch of what... the rotor looks like inside
With the sketch, you'll have a place to notate the individual
dimensions as you estimate
(SNIP!)
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Then Carl Bang said:
naked rotor weighs in at 2.3 oz
Yep, that was pretty much what I was looking for. While it's a cinch to
A, mates and maties! (insert vague, pointless pirate music
soundtrack here)
If any of you guys happen to have a valve rotor from double horn laying
around, and you happen to see a postal scale sitting nearby, then you're
who I'm looking for.
Would you please stick a valve rotor on the postal
FIRST - KUDOS THANK YOU:
Thanks to the list for all the help with the German language Vienna horn
website. The login request short-circuited my usual inquisitive (aka
hacker) nature, and I gave up too fast. I did get in, and found that
it was the English translation of a page I'd already seen in
Can anyone help here.
I'm doing research on an ongoing personal project to learn as much
about Vienna horns (in all their varieties) as I can and, being
homebound, I must do this from my computer. The link below looks
promising, but it requires a username, password, and domain.
I doubt the influence of outside music when the baby was in mothers womb
The music I could have heard were the explosions of bombs grenades
Well then, that would explain everything!
just kidding, Professor!
jrc in SC
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I went to http://world.altavista.com/ and pasted in this URL:
http://iwk.mdw.ac.at/Forschung/deutsch/wrinst/wrhorn1.htm
...and asked it to translate German to English. Very enlightening! From this
I learned of,
the necessity stand to co-ordinate in the high situation the
lip tension more
I recently had the pleasure of watching a DVD of the Berlin Philharmonic
playing Beethoven symphonies #4 and #7 (my favorites, particularly #7),
Abbado at the podium. There were, of course, two horns, but I state this for
clarity as I've seen (back in the 70's) many broadcasts of Beethoven
I recall reading a Dennis Brain biography years ago in which there was a
picture of Dennis and (I think) Norman del Mar, from their Royal Academy
days. They are standing out in front of an orchestra and, if I recall
correctly, playing a Brahms piece.
The question, what Brahms work would feature
During tacets you can learn how many millimeters there
are in an inch just by fooling around with your slide
Maybe, but remember the trouble PeeWee Herman had over this? And while it
it may not increase your circle of friends, you should at least be able
to tune until you need glasses.
jrc
I have been thinking about getting my valve caps engraved for a while now
Stacy, after the recent tuning slide fiasco, PLEASE tell us you mean the
ones on your horn.
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also appears very contemporary
Have you considered piercing as an alternative valve-cap tattooing?
just tryin' to be
Perhaps next time asking, when should I slide off my
pants, pants underpants, before sitting down on the
toilet or between or after
Dear Professor,
I slide them off before, but then, perhaps I'm simply exercising my right
to be creative. I've always been an iconoclast, preferring to remain on
And as for Paterson, let's think up some punishment that fits the crime
I know: Let's have him disinherit his unborn son!
James Ray We're Merely Wide Awake, The Moon And I Crenshaw
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I recently asked here whether GS's Mikado had two horn parts. You guys
assured me that it did, and I thought I'd remembered that same thing, but
since there was no 2nd player to play it back then, I had done it alone.
Well, back when I wrote to ask, my wife (also a horn player) had just
snagged a
You can try several things to eradicate unwanted twa-twa
As a matter of addition (NOT disagreement!), Dave Krehbiel used to use a
neat little ditty to work this out of one's playing.
It assumes at least SOME ability to double-tongue, so is not of much use for
beginners. It is, however, a great
I'm probably not a true professional musician according to your
standards but rest assured I won't lose any sleep wondering about
how the true determination is made
One meaningful measure worthy of consideration might be that, over the
course of several decades, people have been anxious to pay
On the subject of mellophones - despite what you see in the catalogs,
a true mellophone looks like a backwards horn with piston valves
Are you familiar with the concert horn? I have one of those. In fact, I
posted a story about it here recently... so I won't
again. Mine is made by Alexander,
jrc in SC has given some quite vivid and understandable analogies
in Elvis voice
Why, thankya. Thankya vurry mush...
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I'm afraid the concept is flawed, however
You are absolutely correct. I've been working on this all weekend, and the
key was in something Herb Foster said. I didn't try
Any thoughts on comparing the two, e.g. ***resistance***
NO!!! Somebody SHOOT me!
jrc in SC
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...he asked me to play the two muted phrases in the last
movement as he did not have time to get a mute in himself!!
Why would want a mute in himself?
jrc (who, just this morning, shot a bear in Lawrence Yates's pajamas)
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What we horn players call resistance engineers call impedance
Herb, you've sent me to the dictionary. Not exactly to see what impedance
means, but to make sure that my head definition is indeed accurate. For
the purposes of the following drivel, I'm going to coin a couple of new
terms;
1)
...while you probably aren't looking at a key _signature_ of 9
flats, you're certainly playing in that key
(at least) one stands and claps...
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I don't think the idea of visiting key signatures with more than seven
sharps or flats is at all out of line but I likely wouldn't make students
Would someone please be kind enough to explain to this horn novice
the difference between a Vienna horn and a regular horn?
Sure, here you go:
This one starts with a neat, readable history of the Vienna horn, then goes
to the historic players and the Vienna school of playing, all in one nice,
Prof. Pizka, I know you are close to retirement, but had no idea that
you were so old as to remember what a dinosaur farting sounds like
Wrong pronunciation of the word Dino there, Fred. I think Prof Pizka
refers to Fred Flintstone's dog. Even I am old enough to remember the family
pet. When
Put yourself in the young man's shoes. How would you feel?
Confined... and possibly smelly.
jrc
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For those less informed
I've been called worse
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...the problem of bends in an instrument has two aspects
One is simply air flow, which will respond to straightening
curves the same way unkinking a hose will
I've heard that applied to horns, but I have to wonder. With the main tubing
Since there are a few repair-type doodz (also doodettes?) as well as
generally-knowledgeable players on this list, I'd like to ask a question:
Q: On a moving rotary valve, do the sides of the barrel touch the casings
as they spin? ...or do ONLY THE BEARINGS (top-and-bottom axles) touch?
This is
WHO:
If you're over 40 years of age, and have been playing the horn a major
portion of those years, I'd like some input here.
A COMMON DIALOGUE:
First, some common terminology so we can understand each other. Let's leave
the thumb out of this for a moment, and look at your finger: Starting
If you're old enough to read this, then you probably weren't born when I
last played the Mikado. Anywhoo, the question is this:
Q: How many horn parts are there?
I only remember one, but there may have been a second book that I didn't see
since there was no 2nd horn player.
jrc in SC
Alan Civil used to do it on his Alex Model 90 Bb single.
I've no doubt that he could...
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One nice example was at the IHS workshop in 1978 at East
Lansing. (Concertstuck with wind ensemble) accompaniment
I was there on the front row. That one was memorable for two reasons:
1) a guy in the
A comparison:
Saxo could also be understood as in connection with the saxo-nians,
a tribe located in east germany bordering to the Czech Republic
There's also a small splinter group from within the above tribe. They all
work in the automobile paint body trade and, being small in stature,
Okay, who was at the Hartford, Connecticut horn workshop in the late 1970's?
Wendell Hoss was. William Valkenier was. So was I, but mainly, Alan Civil
was.
I'm looking for a piece of music that Alan wrote on his way over from The
Land Of Fog. He photocopied it and handed it out at the Connecticut
...And then there was Tonight We Love adapted from
the Rach 2 piano concerto, as I recall
OK, but let's not forget Full Moon And Empty Arms.
On second thought, let's do.
jrc in SC
PS: FMAEA was also from a Rachmaninoff piano concerto... I think.
r
lamp oil is not manufactured to be used as a lubricant
I don't think lamp oil is manufactured at all. More on that in a moment...
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... you're still buying (lamp) oil that is cheap
enough to be sold for a few dollars for 24 ounces
I sure hope we all know why valve oil costs more than lamp
Could someone fill me in on a good place to order the little cork-bumper
holder plates for Holton horns? If you're at all familiar with Holtons, you
probably know that SOME of these horns have chintzy, pressed-steel cork
holder plates that bend like Swiss cheese. Don't get me wrong; I like Swiss
I have all the equipment for (valve) plating
DON'T DO IT, BILL!!!
If you try working on your own horn, your cow will dissolve into plastic
shavings, your hair will catch on fire, and your sainted Grandmother will
retroactively cause your children to be born nekkid.
Besides, since it's been
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