Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 8:01 am Post subject: Nutcracker excerpt for 23 trumpets (etcetera...)
It's a sad December with no Nutcracker run this year, so I thought I'd give myself the opportunity to enjoy my favourite part of the piece. Just me and 22 of my lockdown buddies. Enjoy!
Joined: 24 Jun 2008 Posts: 20 Location: Calgary, AB, Canada
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 10:31 am Post subject:
Thanks Steve! Yes, that corno is a beautiful and versatile instrument. I bought it from the estate of Fred Mills, so it's got some real history to it too.
For all the low stuff I played it with a Schilke 24 mouthpiece (which I bought from a bargain bin during my undergrad as a joke). The low C was a head-scratcher for a while, I had to put the fourth valve trigger in just the right place or it wouldn't pop. But then I put in the A pipe, and that low C was perfectly in tune with valves 1-3-4, no trigger. Easy. Years of Stamp and Thibaud really paying off, hah. The double pedal C works great 2-3, and the G below that open. An adventure down there, to be sure.
The low stuff was one of two things I needed to sort out first to see if this project was feasible, the other being the harp part. Once those two nuts were cracked (har har) the rest was pretty straightforward!
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Joined: 26 Jun 2017 Posts: 1549 Location: Virginia USA
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2020 6:11 pm Post subject:
What a tremendous effort pulled off with great success. Thank you for sharing it. _________________ Bb: Schilke X3L AS SP, Yamaha YTR-6335S
C: Schilke CXL, Kanstul 1510-2
Picc: Kanstul 920
Bb Bugle: Kanstul
Bb Pocket: Manchester Brass
Flugel: Taylor Standard
Bass Trumpet: BAC Custom
Natural Tr: Custom Haas replica by Nikolai Mänttäri Morales
Joined: 26 May 2006 Posts: 1808 Location: Toronto, Canada
Posted: Fri Dec 11, 2020 6:39 am Post subject:
azinatelli wrote:
Thanks Steve! Yes, that corno is a beautiful and versatile instrument. I bought it from the estate of Fred Mills, so it's got some real history to it too.
For all the low stuff I played it with a Schilke 24 mouthpiece (which I bought from a bargain bin during my undergrad as a joke). The low C was a head-scratcher for a while, I had to put the fourth valve trigger in just the right place or it wouldn't pop. But then I put in the A pipe, and that low C was perfectly in tune with valves 1-3-4, no trigger. Easy. Years of Stamp and Thibaud really paying off, hah. The double pedal C works great 2-3, and the G below that open. An adventure down there, to be sure.
The low stuff was one of two things I needed to sort out first to see if this project was feasible, the other being the harp part. Once those two nuts were cracked (har har) the rest was pretty straightforward!
Hi Adam - cool, thanks for sharing how you did that, and super neat that it came from Fred Mills's estate!
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