[Trombone-l] North & South - Backward Horns?

[George Butler]

Jim, I'm not an expert, and probably shouldn't be one of the first to chime in on this.  However:
 
Book recommendation for you; I'll bet your public library has it:
Margaret H. Hazen and Robert M. Hazen, The Music Men.  Smithsonian Books, 1987.  Here's the Amazon link:  http://www.amazon.com/Music-Men-M-Hazen/dp/book-citations/0874745462/ref=sid_dp_av?ie=UTF8&citeType=cited#cited
 
I don't know this one at all, but it sounds promising:  Steven H. Cornelius, Music of the Civil War Era, Greenwood Press, 2004.
 
Robb Stewart, a maker in Arcadia, California, specializes in restoring originals and making replicas.  Here's an interview with him from the HBS:  
 http://www.historicbrass.org/Interviews/tabid/167/TheStacks/InterviewsContents/Interviews2006/RobbStewartInterview/tabid/210/Default.aspx
 
While here on the Historic Brass Society's web site, you might want to find reference to articles on the subject that you can get from their past journals and newsletters.
 
There's actually a group of "reenactors," folks who who dress up on weekends and travel to the various Civil War sites around the country to play together.  (You may have just discovered a whole new way to spend your free time and disposable income.)
 
George Butler
Tallinn, Estonia, who spends all his money and time on early seventeenth-century Italian music, and the instruments to play it on...  

--- On Sun, 7/20/08, Jim Hale <jim at myworldsonline.net> wrote:

From: Jim Hale <jim at myworldsonline.net>
Subject: [Trombone-l] North & South - Backward Horns?
To: "Mailing List - Trombone-L" <trombone-l at samford.edu>
Date: Sunday, July 20, 2008, 5:13 PM

I'm finally sitting down to watch the TV MINI Series 'North &
South' from
the 80's and am wondering why all the horns seem to be pointing to the back
- the only one that looks 'right' is the French Horn (not that a French
Horn
is EVER 'right'). :)

 

Jim Hale

My Worlds Online - http://www.myworldsonline.net

 

 

 

 

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