[Trombone-l] Leaving a horn on its stand

[Raymond Horton]

Many years ago I heard a few  LPs of Shuman that weren't my favorite - 
including one that really gave me chuckles of the Beethoven F Major Horn 
Sonata. (I remember Shuman's liner notes said something to the effect 
that performing the natural horn work on trombone, as opposed to valve 
horn, gave it "the valveless sound the composer wanted." (!).  He could 
really "splat" the low notes on those LPs, but had nice facility in the 
upper register.


I suspect Shuman may have been recorded poorly on those LPs, becaue I 
also played Jacob Druckman's "Animus I" for trombone and tape several 
times.  The tape for that work was made partly from recorded sounds of 
Shuman, done at the state-of-the-art Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music 
Lab in 1965 or so, and he sounds excellent.  Shuman died only a year or 
two after. 


Raymond Horton



If you want to be a 10, learn to be a perfect 1. wrote:

>Larry Borden of the Nashville Symphony actually has one of these for
>nostalgia. It is a strange beast to say the least. The way that it is angled
>actually makes the reach for 7th position quite a bit easier. I remember
>Shuman playing the Hindemith Sonata on a recording using this instrument. As
>I recall it wasn't a very good recording.
>
>Paul Kemp 
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>Shuman made an angled bone.  See attached:
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>http://www.dillonmusic.com/Used_Instruments/usedinstruments.asp?instrument=U
>sed%20Tenor%20Trombones&StartPos=75
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>J.c.
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