| Re: Hummel
Here is an interesting addition to this discussion.
During a break on Saturday one of the Cello players told me she had been playing in an orchestra that was accompanying John Wallce in the hummel a couple of weeks ago.
They had been handed parts in Eb and E and done the E version.
The violinist who ws with us said that E is a terrible key for the violin because it means there are no open strings to resonate with the ones that are being bowed so the sound gets very thin.
This could mean that the trumpet would sound better on top of the orchestra in E rather than Eb.
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