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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 adon't
Mozart concerto on a green garden hose. He used a mouthpiece, but I
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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