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Old 04-22-2008, 07:56 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Re: Hummel

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Originally Posted by bagmangood View Post
I was talking about back when it was first played on natural-ish trumpets, my memory is a little fuzzy because didn't the original player have a special horn with one key (could play in Eb/E whatever he did but also could change like a valve)?

but thanks for the link :)
The concerto was never intented to be played on a nat, as it is simply impossible. The trumpet used back then was called klappentrompete (key trumpet).

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