... Correct, it's an Angled Horn. ... Admittedly, it does use the same transposition as tenor sax and euphonium, but it has a range which is comparable with...
If you select the whole score using Control-A (Command-A on Mac, I believe), then do copy, then select the final barline, then do paste, you will then have a...
... What does that make Alphonse Capone and Sylvester Stallone? ... The dictionary says "artificial" = "man made". I don't know any way of artificially...
... Not according to Grove (according to this Wikipedia article that references Grove): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cor_anglais This claims that the 'cor...
... Engellisches Horn, which also in German means English Horn. So we're back to square one. Who cares? It's a bent alto oboe with a funny bell and a silly...
... Aren't those 'angels', like, not angels any more? Plus, if Paul really bagged angels, how come he doesn't have their wings over the fireplace? Now *that*...
... Where do you think seraphim come from? ... We cooked those. They tasted like chicken. I'm going to Hell now, aren't I? I'll stop. I need all the help from...
________________________________________ From: Paul Clark We cooked those. They tasted like chicken. I'm going to Hell now, aren't I? ... Don'cha worry 'bout...
... When I was at instrument repair school, another student who was a bassoonist had a book on how to build a bassoon. It started by explaining there was a...
Here is a question for our mighty academic (hi John)/ I was just wondering why trumpet players are called trumpeters and every one else is an "ist" :...
... Excellent question. I waste a lot of time wondering about stuff like this. Looking forward to any and all answers. Paul p.s. Isn't tromboner a verb?...
... Well, my best guess is that there really IS some deep, dark secret reason: and it's called "tradition"! But as I think about it, this tradition may only...
John Howell
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Oct 2, 2008 2:50 am
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... Actually, yes. I can think of at least two things a natural harmonic does that a fingered harmonic can't, although of course players practice to try to...
John Howell
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Oct 2, 2008 3:24 am
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... Except that it ISN'T bent. There are a few examples from the 18th century which are, but the modern EH is not. The reed's staple is slightly bent, but...
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Oct 2, 2008 3:30 am
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... Not Hells Angels.. They play with motorbikes and drugs and the minds of the cops... Stephen Currington Wellington, New Zealand email: scurri @...
... Hm I didn't know Angels had horns.. I thought it was the other chaps, dressed in red with with the fork and matching tails that had them.. (oh hang on...
Is this one of the Pendariki techniques in "Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima"? Haven't heard it in 40 years, and still it haunts me. Wonderful piece,...
The reasons go back to the linquistic laws of formation of English Words and their origins, if not originally English, but adopted from another language such ...
... Yeah, but man, there ain't no coda! And ya have to play with the banjoers and 'cordeenists. John -- John R. Howell, Assoc. Prof. of Music Virginia Tech...
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Oct 2, 2008 3:58 am
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... You've hit it, Paul. If the name of the instrument you play can be used as verb as well as a known you're an "er" rather than an "ist". Also check ...
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