| Re: Brandenburg Concerto no 2
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Originally Posted by John P  I'm by no means nearly as informed as you guys, but I always figured that the portrait of Reiche was more of a classic cocky trumpet player thing. As if he was saying "Yeah, that's right, I can play THIS piece on THIS horn! Just try and stop me!" I'm probably totally wrong. | I view this portrait in the same way as CD covers or posed photos of trumpet players.
They often pose with their most outlandish looking instrument even if its not used on that CD.
By the way this is the sort of small valved horn I was refering to: http://www.dillonmusic.com/HeleoCart...rge/isi296.jpg
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