Re: Dennis Brain's horn [was: Period vs Modern instruments?]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jerry Kohl
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>This is an extremely interesting observation, and a point I had not
>previously noticed. I just put on two recordings in succession (Frank Llloyd
>and Michael Thompson's), and the note in question is clearly being lipped
>down 

Only very good players would dare: it's so easy to flip to the next note
down in this register!

>(with some considerable effort) from the 14th partial--which by rights
>ought to be the octave above the seventh, notated as B-flat in the score,
>but sounding almost a quarter-tone flatter (the "septimal seventh"). If
>Britten had wanted to be sure of the 13th partial, however, he might have
>notated A-flat instead of A-natural, since that is slightly closer (in

Yes, I wish he had chosen Ab or Bb, to avoid the possible confusion.

>12-equal) to the 13th partial, though extremely sharp of it, and the next
>lower partial is the G. In a just-intoned schema, however, the (notated) A,
>tuned relative to C and/or E, is so much lower than in 12-equal that the
>13th partial is much closer to it than to A-flat.
>
>Can you point me a little more precisely to this Czech recording? I would
>very much like to hear it.

Sorry, I heard it once, on BBC Radio 3, and can't even remember when.

-- 
Ken Moore
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pg composition student, University of Reading