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GordonH · 01-29-2007, 10:13 AM

Interesting.

We get odd rotary valve soprano horn type instruments cropping up on Ebay.
See the bottom of this page for an example (no photo unfortunately)
http://www.firstbrass.co.uk/brass%20pages/cornets.html

I can't work out if its pitched like a piccolo trumpet or a normal trumpet.

On the octave issue, I can see the arguments for saying its in the high register. However, if Reiche could play like that and had an F trumpet would this not have cropped up in other pieces? Also, it actually sounds right in the lower pitch. It also sounds good on original instrument in the higher pitch. Where it does not sound so good is in some of the very strident recordings like the Adolf Sherbaum ones where the trumpet dominates the ensemble.

01-29-2007, 10:13 AM	#10 (permalink)
GordonH Mezzo Piano User Join Date: May 2005 Location: Scotland Posts: 624	Re: Brandenburg Concerto no 2 Interesting. We get odd rotary valve soprano horn type instruments cropping up on Ebay. See the bottom of this page for an example (no photo unfortunately) http://www.firstbrass.co.uk/brass%20pages/cornets.html I can't work out if its pitched like a piccolo trumpet or a normal trumpet. On the octave issue, I can see the arguments for saying its in the high register. However, if Reiche could play like that and had an F trumpet would this not have cropped up in other pieces? Also, it actually sounds right in the lower pitch. It also sounds good on original instrument in the higher pitch. Where it does not sound so good is in some of the very strident recordings like the Adolf Sherbaum ones where the trumpet dominates the ensemble. __________________ "O trumpeter, methinks I am myself the instrument thou playest, Thou melt'st my heart, my brain--thou movest, drawest, changest them at will;" (Walt Whitman)