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

[Ray Horton]

  Here is another I found online while looking for the Cornelius book:



  A Pictorial History of Civil War Era Musical Instruments and Military
  Bands (Paperback)

by Robert Garofalo 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Robert%20Garofalo> 
(Author), Mark Elrod 
<http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?%5Fencoding=UTF8&search-type=ss&index=books&field-author=Mark%20Elrod> 
(Author)

    * ISBN-10: 0933126603
    * ISBN-13: 978-0933126602



Raymond Horton

George Butler wrote:
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> Jim, I'm not an expert, and probably shouldn't be one of the first to chime in on this.  However:
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> 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
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> I don't know this one at all, but it sounds promising:  Steven H. Cornelius, Music of the Civil War Era, Greenwood Press, 2004.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.)
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> George Butler
> Tallinn, Estonia, who spends all his money and time on early seventeenth-century Italian music, and the instruments to play it on...  
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> --- On Sun, 7/20/08, Jim Hale <jim at myworldsonline.net> wrote:
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> 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
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> 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'). :)
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