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Old 03-20-2008, 03:54 PM   #29 (permalink)
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Re: Period Music Debate

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Originally Posted by rowuk View Post
Holes are not just for lazy players. A working professional simply needs more time than they often have to keep the holeless chops up. That does not make them lazy, rather economical. I think a performance with a holed instrument has most of the sonic benefits of the nat.
Strings play on different bows and strings,
flutes, hobo, bassons... all they make a hard effort to play on instruments very different of their modern equivalencies.
Why not the trumpets ???
Their time is less worth ???
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