Klarinet Archive - Posting 000081.txt from 2011/01

From: Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuba mirum - K.626 (off-topic)
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 10:18:16 -0500


On 10 Jan 2011, at 22:17, John Brophy wrote:

. For about two centuries before Mozart, trombone was a funeral instrument,
which is why it would have been particularly effective in Don Giovanni.

I did once have an article, from Scientific American, I think. The nub was
that when trumpets were made from hammered metal, there were enough
imperfections to allow the player to bend the note, and a diatonic scale was
possible even quite low on the harmonic series. But this option vanished
once rolling mills were used in metal production. The article mentioned some
early tutor/ teaching books, which stated that the technique was akin to
singing -- all lip work. Some examples of instruments, clarino, have
survived from Bach's time.
The Haydn concerto was for a slide trumpet
John, are you sure of this? The late Christopher Monk always reckoned it was for a Keyed trumpet, as have other whom I would expect to know.
Martin
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