| I think it's good for your ear and your endurance. Also, you play the baroque literature differently when you understand better how it was played originally. The nats don't play as loud, and if you overblow them, they punish you - you miss a lot of notes and have little endurance. You have to play in a more vocal style, and not try to make it as loud as a modern instrument. Once you accept that, you have a much easier time. It's like Dizzy Gillespie said, if you fight the horn, it wins every time. I know Dizzy didn't play nats, but that statement is even more true concerning them. |