| Re: Haydn Trumpet Concerto
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Originally Posted by stchasking  Do you guys play the Hayden on a Bb trumpet or an Eb trumpet?
I asked Edward Tarr about playing the trills and he looked at me like I had attended the wrong conference. I realized then why all the orchestral competitors were carrying Eb trumpets. I meekly said something like, "I guess I should play it on an Eb trumpet?" He said nothing but nodded his head, yes. That was the first tid bit of information I learned at my first ITG conference.
| The original instrument it is written for is a keyed natural trumpet, therefore a Bb or Eb valved trumpet are equally wrong. You should try and get a recording of it on original instrument. I have the Friedmann Immer recording.
Playing it on Eb trumpet makes sense but I do it on Bb and partly because Mr Tarr himself puts part of the third movement down an octave in his edited/reconstructed publication of it (with HC Robbins Landon). I don't think you could pl;ay it as written on an Eb three valve trumpet.
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