Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Posts: 107 Location: Burlingame, CA
Posted: Sat Jan 02, 2010 8:02 pm Post subject: Where Old Horns Go to Die
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!
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Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 1047 Location: Iowa City, IA
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 7:51 am Post subject:
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 _________________ Jim Calkins
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Joined: 30 Oct 2007 Posts: 449 Location: western pennsylvania
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:34 am Post subject:
wow! actually kind of cool.....who'd a thunk so many crushed tubas and trombones could be appealing!?!
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Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 625 Location: Colorado Springs. CO
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 4:01 pm Post subject:
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. _________________ Gill
Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 2156 Location: Jackson NC 27845
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 6:51 pm Post subject:
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.
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.
Joined: 18 Apr 2004 Posts: 1047 Location: Iowa City, IA
Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 8:23 pm Post subject:
How many of us have unplayable horns that are really worth just as much flattened? I will do the poll. _________________ Jim Calkins
IA City
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Joined: 07 Jan 2003 Posts: 567 Location: New Mexico
Posted: Mon Jan 04, 2010 6:40 pm Post subject:
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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