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Author: dorjepismo ★2017
Date: 2016-09-26 22:04
Like the idea of playing things on the instruments they were written for, but as a matter of practical aesthetics, a lot depends on how different one's C, if one owns a C, sounds from the Bb. Some makers seem to try to make the different pitches sound as close as possible, and others glory in the different tone colors. It used to be a macho thing to play everything on Bb, hence the low Eb keys; a respectable British player told me he used to do that with "Contrasts."
The analogy with trumpets is apt. The principals in Berlin seem to play nearly everything on the same instruments, even though Strauss, Mahler and Brukner frequently specified Ds, Bbs and other pitched trumpets for the different sound qualities. It was singular that in the recent concert John Adams conducted, the principal was playing a small trumpet--I'd guess an F, but it might have been something else. Adams probably insisted, which the others, being dead, can't really do anymore. Don't know that I would have heard the difference, though; the bore looked nearly the same, and it sounds great whatever they play.
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