Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: oh no did i get the wrong rim??
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Date Posted: June 28, 2008
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: oh no did i get the wrong rim??
So, you're saying that with over 200 years of experience in making horns/mouthpieces, Alexander still doesn't know what it's doing? Horn tone quality is a very subjective matter and seems to be subject to changes in fashion, with the "Alex sound" currently being largely out of fashion in the UK - although it is still in fashion in Germany etc. For all that we players agonise over it, I doubt that audiences (unless consisting of horn players) notice the difference between types of horn/mouthpiece used. The most important consideration in choosing an instrument/mouthpiece, surely, should be whether a given combination makes it as easy as possible to get the notes in whatever register a given player normally operates in.
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