This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...The trumpets depicted above are identical with the Hebrew Khatsotsemh. The illustrations on p. 50 are (1) an African trumpet of ivory (in possession of Messrs. Boosey & Co.) the mouth-hole being at the side in the position marked (a); and (2) a copper trumpet, silver mounted and handsomely embossed ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ...The trumpets depicted above are identical with the Hebrew Khatsotsemh. The illustrations on p. 50 are (1) an African trumpet of ivory (in possession of Messrs. Boosey & Co.) the mouth-hole being at the side in the position marked (a); and (2) a copper trumpet, silver mounted and handsomely embossed (now in the possession of Mr. Alfred H. Littleton), reputed to have been found on the field of the Battle of Worcester. It is inscribed " Augustine Dudley 1651. Londini. Fecit." The mouthpiece is missing. These are identical in both orchestral and wind bands. Slide trombones are used in both cases, although, as the military band perforce plays in equal temperament, there is TROMBONES. 51 not the same objection to valved trombones as there is in the orchestra. Foreigners sometimes argue in favour of valved trombones, even in the orchestra, and point to their use in the Italian opera houses, where indeed the "brass " effects are very beautiful; but that perfection is more attributable to the fine, exquisite tone of the higher trumpets than to the trombones. When British orchestras adopt valved trombones, presumably at the time when they take to fretted fiddles, military bands may begin to think about it; but in the meantime they will stick to the slide. Besides, there is a manly, " hands-off " suggestiveness in the action which appeals to the British bandsman's fancy. The prominence of the dissonant seventh harmonic in the composite-tone of the trombone, equally as in the case of the trumpet, gives great piquancy to its quality. A trio of trombones is employed in the military band in the same way as in the orchestra, and their use in soft effects is nmch the same in both combinations. In afortissimo, ...
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