Klarinet Archive - Posting 000087.txt from 2011/01

From: John Brophy <johnbrophy0@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Tuba mirum - K.626 (off-topic)
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 10:11:55 -0500

I've no references for this: indeed, the trouble often is that claims are
made and repeated by people who have never even handled the instrument(s) in
question. I think the bit about slide trumpet is in regard to Clegget, and
the presumption is that since the concerto is about ten years earlier than
Keyed instrument, it had perforce to be written for a slide. No more than
that.

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 3:18 PM, Martin Baxter <martinbaxter1@-----.com> wrote:

>
> 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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