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| What Musical Instrument do You Play?
Posted: 8/16/2005 8:58:01 PM | As budding LA greasers in the mid-fifties me and Larry got inspired by Preston Epps' 45, "Bongo Rock." We got hold of a coupla pairs of cheesy Tijuana Bongos and started entertaining our sixth grade classmates at recess. God, they were so jealous!
Nowadays I play percussion in jam bands at the drop of a hat. When the audience knows what they're there for and get into it with us, its Haut Aztec Body Surfing!! | |
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| What Musical Instrument do You Play?
Posted: 8/17/2005 3:13:33 AM | ^^ INDIIII !! I SAW THAT !! ^^ 
OT: well, duh.. actually it's a 'double' french horn - it takes two to really play well..
and duets are so much more fun than solos anyway! | |
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a7xfan
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Joined: 6/24/2005
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| What Musical Instrument do You Play?
Posted: 8/17/2005 9:25:27 AM | @ musicmanpvb...its actually just a double horn. "french" horn is a misnomer!
@ a7xfan...know how to tell when a drummer is knocking on your door? hee hee
the knock rushes! LOL | |
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Posted: 8/17/2005 3:29:14 PM | musicmanpvb...its actually just a double horn. "french" horn is a misnomer!
Ahh Herc - depends on where you live! In Italy it is corno or just 'horn' in Germany - often called the WaldHorn or 'forest horn' unless you are in Vienna, where they have their own 'Vienna PumpenHorn' <-- careful INDI!!!
In France it is actually MOST often referred to as the 'cor francais' to fully differentiate it from the 'cor anglaise', similarly in Britain it is always referred to as the French Horn to fully separate it from the English Horn.
Our usage here in the states descended from common usage in Britain. However - you are correct in that there was a serious move by the International Horn Society a couple of decades ago to remove the leading 'French' from the instrument's name and just refer to it as The Horn - this would refer to singles, doubles, descants, and even triple horns.
However, due to confusion caused by the common usage in this country of the term 'horn' referring to anything from a sax to a trumpet - and in fact due to the instrument's ancestry of being used in hunting parties in France - the term 'French Horn' is considered completely acceptable and proper!
Never thought I would get to talk about this on a dating site!!
BTW - I also play 'electric' bass..  | |
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| What Musical Instrument do You Play?
Posted: 8/17/2005 3:48:24 PM | Right. Everybody has the instrument of "mouth and throat".
However, words failing, another instrument is handy.
I have a KORG. Also a little gitty, but not in awhile.
Of course, a harmonica (one step above a kazoo) is a good one for the green songmeister.
The downside of a harmonica (which could inversely be a good point) is that you can't sing while playing. The aforementioned good side: you need somebody else to sing, preferably a sweet potato gal. | |
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| What Musical Instrument do You Play?
Posted: 8/17/2005 7:03:48 PM | | I play a brazilian drum in a percussion band. As well I am learning how to play piano. My ultimate dream is to learn how to play drum kit. | |
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Wylde
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Joined: 7/27/2005
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a7xfan
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Joined: 6/24/2005
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| What Musical Instrument do You Play?
Posted: 8/18/2005 5:15:21 AM | | I play Guitar, Bass, Drums, Keyboards and I sing too. I don't think I prefer any one over the other, I just love to make music. | |
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Posted: 8/18/2005 6:19:46 AM | weeeee a horn history ...well sort of...close anyway.....
Fr. cor, cor d’harmonie; cor à pistons [valve horn]; cor simple, cor à main [hand horn]; cor de chasse, huchet, trompe de chasse [hunting horn]. Ger. Horn; Ventilhorn [valve horn]; Naturhorn [hand horn]; Hiefhorn, Hifthorn, Jagdhorn, Waldhorn [hunting horn]. It. corno; corno a macchina [valve horn]; corno a mano, corno naturale [hand horn]; corno da caccia, tromba da caccia [hunting horn]. Sp. trompa; trompa da caza [hunting horn]
The European orchestral horn, often referred to as the ‘french horn’, probably in recognition of its country of origin, but nowadays the adjective is normally omitted.
Long before the modern double horn became established, the instrument that was widely used by professional players was pitched in a single key, either F, or, later, B. The single course of tubing made it very light and easy to handle and, because the tubing was less twisted and there was a well-balanced relationship between its diameter and the expansion of the bell, a good sound was easier to produce. The single horn, particularly the version in B, therefore survived for a long time, even after the establishment of the double horn. One problem with the single horn is the tendency for the pitch of hand-stopped notes to rise because of the effective shortening of the tubing that results. While on the horn in F the pitch rises by a semitone, on the B instrument this shortening is quite excessive, and a correcting valve to lower the pitch by three-quarters of a tone is required. Eventually some makers preferred to add a further section of tubing (and the corresponding valve) to the B instrument, to obtain the partials of a horn in F.
Of the various types of single horn that were widely used in the past, the most common type of F horn from the second half of the 19th century until the 1920s was the ‘German’ horn. This had a slide-crook which also served as a master tuning-slide, a particularly broad bell, a strictly conical mouthpiece with a flat-edged rim and a bore which measured up to 11·5 mm in the cylindrical valve section (thus wider than all other models).
The ‘Vienna’ horn (fig.1b) is essentially a type of natural orchestral horn with characteristic double-piston Vienna valves of the type developed by Josef Kail and Joseph Riedl in 1823 (see Valve (i)); with some improvements patented in 1830 by Leopold Uhlmann, it is still used, uniquely, by the Vienna PO. It has a much larger bell with a greater flare than average, but the bore is reduced to an average of about 10·7 mm; the instrument still uses detachable crooks, which have been abandoned on all other valve horns. The F crook is completely conical, while the B one is a simple short tube which, once inserted, necessitates replacing the slides of the valves with other, shorter ones.
The French preferred a model which preserved the characteristic structure of the natural (valveless) horn that had been built from the 18th century onwards by Raoux of Paris. It has crooks at the mouthpipe, and a piston machine which can sometimes be replaced with a simple slide to transform it into a genuine hand horn. Another characteristic feature is the ‘ascending third valve’ (invented by Halary (iii) in about 1847) which in normal position allows the air to pass through the corresponding slide, but when depressed cuts out the slide so as to raise the pitch of the instrument by a tone. The bore varies from 10·8 to 11 mm; the tone is clear and balanced, but rather sour in the bass register, in the region of the 3rd partial. This instrument faithfully reflects the characteristics of the cor solo (see §2(iii) below), and was often played with hand-horn technique (the pistons then serving exclusively to alter the basic pitch); the famous solo in Ravel’s Pavane pour une infante défunte (1910) was intended for this usage. The same model, but with a normal third valve lowering the pitch by three semitones was particularly widely used in Britain up until the 1930s (fig.2b).
The various innovations made to help horn players tackle particularly high-lying pieces led instrument makers to construct valve horns in higher keys than normal. At the end of the 19th century the horn player F.A. Gumbert [Gumpert] used a horn in F alto for Siegfried’s horn call (Wagner’s Ring) and subsequently horns in G alto (some with an additional slide in F) and B soprano were also made. In addition, a curious model (probably invented by the firm of Riedl in Vienna) was particularly widespread in Italy and Austria during the 19th century. This instrument had the valves turned round 180° (i.e. ranged close to the bell) so that they could be worked by the right hand, which made it quite impossible for the player to place a hand inside the bell. Single horns in E (or sometimes in F) with a right-hand action and the bell on the left are still widely found in bands. They replicate the normal fingering of all the other brass band instruments and are generally given to the youngest recruits.
There, now we have had our musical instrument history lesson for today LOL | |
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Wylde
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Joined: 7/27/2005
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Posted: 8/18/2005 2:45:20 PM | @Herc - excellent stuff!
but now I suppose we had better get back to skin flute and two-handed organ for the rest of the group... | |
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Clo129
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Joined: 3/16/2005
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kce33
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