Re: [Phys-L] [Phys-l] musical instruments

[Bernard Cleyet <bernardcleyet@REDSHIFT.COM>]

Showing off his humorous style, Brain performed a Leopold Mozart horn concerto on rubber hose pipes at a Gerard Hoffnung music festival in 1956, trimming the hose to length with garden shears to achieve the correct tuning.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Brain


bc  has listened to that festival.


On 2010, Apr 07, , at 12:21, John Clement <clement@hal-pc.org> wrote:

> But of course superb players can play on anything.  Dennis Brain played a
> Mozart concerto on a green garden hose.  He used a mouthpiece, but I don't
> recall whether he had an improvised bell.  There may be a picture of him
> doing it!  He even trilled at the end.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
>
> > Many a-time have I used a 10 ft length of electrical conduit to show
> > how bugle calls can be massacred.
> > Never tried a mouthpiece, never tried a flared bell.
> > Either of these additions might make it a way more pleasant listening
> > experience.
> >
> > So many new things to try.
> >
> > Hard-drawn 3/4 " copper water line works too.
> >
> > At 12:39 PM -0500 4/7/10, Bill Nettles wrote:
> > > A fun exercise is to get a brass mouthpiece and some straight tubing
> > > on the order of a meter and try to play it. Then fashion a bell (or
> > > use a medium sized funnel) on the end and play again. Check the ease
> > > of playing and the overtone structure of each setup and compare.
> > > It's amazing what the flared bell does.
>
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