Re: Period vs Modern instruments?

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Michael Haslam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>What is the difference between the oboe and the horn wrt subtle
>adjustment of the tuning of individual notes? The harmonic series is the
>same whether played on a bugle, trumpet or alphorn.

Alert: not one of these exactly plays an overtone series. They get close,
but every one of them functions as a "stopped" pipe, with a series
of resonances which is compressed from a basic odds-only series.


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