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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:02 pm    Post subject: Where Old Horns Go to Die Reply with quote

While in London, at the Victoria and Albert Museum, I came across this ceiling treatment.

Apparently, the horns were flattened, then suspended with a heavy nylon line.

Enjoy!

http://www.kentgaisford.com/trmpt/VA/ceiling/index.html
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How relieved I was to see that there weren't any trumpets in the "art work".
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well it is a museum...they wouldn't destroy something valuable...
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Looks atrocious ...
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Identify each horn by make. Bonus points for model. Double bonus for year. I'll go first. They are all in the key of...

B Flat

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:05 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

oh the humanity!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

......mix in the skeletons of a few dead brass players and you have some true post-modern genius
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

So that's what happened to the Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:34 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

wow! actually kind of cool.....who'd a thunk so many crushed tubas and trombones could be appealing!?!
Bb! funny!
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is at a London museum? I wonder how many Besson Imperial or Salvationist cornets are smashed in the "art mosiac"? It naver fails to amaze me at how many idiots find work as visual artists and how many people will actually pay them money for it .

Oh, and the tubas are split between the keys of Bb & Eb.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gilligan wrote:
Oh, and the tubas are split between the keys of Bb & Eb.

I beg to differ. All of the tubas Be Flat.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love it. Great idea.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I cannot be the only one wondering what they did with all the sharp instruments.

Also, you should know that brass instruments were not the artist's first choice...


Link

(Actually, I think it's pretty cool.)

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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think interior decorators and scrapyard metal artists have been scrounging for instruments for decor or whatever. There is an Applebee's in Roanoke Rapids NC as has several instruments on their high wall, and worse spray painted. I did notice a trumpet was missing a first valve and only one, a trombone had a mouthpiece and I could see where it had been brazed to the horn.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Artists are usually either broke or remember being broke. They tend to get their materials cheap. I would doubt if any good horns were amongst the flattened.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

How many of us have unplayable horns that are really worth just as much flattened? I will do the poll.
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PostPosted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So THAT'S what happened to all those Chinese horns that couldn't be fixed!
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PostPosted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

If the title to this thread were, "Where Olds horns go to be reborn", we would all know the answer to that - to Mendez's place!
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