[MR] Trumpeters

[Jim Layne]

Here is another herald's trumpet link, this one is 52
inches long, costs 79.00US.
The link is very long, if it doesnt work go to
www.by-the-sword.com and put "trumpet" in the search
window.
James ap Llywelyn

http://www.by-the-sword.com/cgi-bin/sh000001.pl?ACTINIC_REFERRER=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eby%2dthe%2dsword%2ecom%2facatalog%2fsearch%2ehtml&REFPAGE=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2eby%2dthe%2dsword%2ecom%2facatalog%2fDenix_Swords%2ehtml&WD=trumpet&SHOP=%20&PREVQUERY=SS%3dtrumpet%26PR%3d%2d1%26TB%3dA%26SHOP%3d%20&PN=Home_Accents%2ehtml%23a2216#a2216


--- Jim Layne <jim_layne at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I play trumpet, and can manage more than a few bugle
> calls as well. A simple fanfare would be rather easy
> to write/play. The tricky part would be getting
> horns
> in correct keys for the harmony. One could write a
> fanfare for three horns in the same key, but it
> would
> lack the depth that several keys would give. I
> wonder
> if the smaller valveless horn could be modified at
> all...shortened perhaps, to make a new key. The bit
> about it coming apart "for storage" sounds like it
> might also be for tuning, though I think it would be
> hard to maintain the tuning while playing it, as you
> would be applying pressure to it. Still, if you held
> it behind the point it comes apart, it could work.
> As
> to modifying it, being thin brass it might take some
> very deft skill to accomplish...and would need to be
> rather exact to not sound like canadian geese
> mating...
>
> Well, I have prattled on a bit more than needed, but
> for the record, I am also willing to join a
> trumpeter's line for courts in the Northenr reaches
> of
> Atlantia.
> James ap Llywelyn
>
>
> --- Siegfried Sebastian Faust
> <eliwhite at adelphia.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > >Or even this?
> > >
> >
>
>http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2526997681&category=620
> > >
> > >Would it be too authentic, i.e., authentically
> > harsh and discordant?
> >
> >
> > Darn, I had just found that, and now you are going
> > to have everyone buying
> > one and running the ebay price up :)
> >
> > Luckily, I've seen this company on Ebay before,
> and
> > everything that they
> > sell, they continue to sell, frequently, often,
> and
> > with same prices.
> >
> > So this simple herald trumpet you could buy at
> > almost any time for the $15
> > and $20 shipping.
> >
> > And, it should work just fine for simple fanfares
> > (Think military 'taps' or
> > 'revelle' type fanfares)  No valves means less
> notes
> > :)
> >
> > The other, more expensive one, would work for much
> > much more :) (but is $125)
> >
> > Siegfried
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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