MissLimLam
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I play trumpet, both modern and baroque, and I am waiting for my cornetto to arrive from England. There are a few things I am wondering about brass instruments in the baroque period:
1. Are there any baroque original instruments (trumpets or horns) that have the vents so common now? (I realise that the vents make tuning and playing much, much easier, but are they historically accurate?)
2. Was the mouthpiece of a baroque horn like the mouthpiece of a modern french horn, or more similar to the "acorn" mouthpiece of cornetti (or somewhere in between?)?
3. Obviously audiences at the time would have found out of tune notes acceptable, but to what degree? I.e, was it ok to only be able to play a diatonic scale, only harmonics, or was a player at that time required to be able to play, more or less, a chromatic scale.
4. To what extent was the hand used in horn playing?
5. When did the cornetto become no longer an acceptable substitute for the violin? (In the early baroque period this was usual, as compositions required simply "a treble instrument," but by the high baroque this was not the case even in smaller chamber pieces.)
Sorry that theres so many questions...
1. Are there any baroque original instruments (trumpets or horns) that have the vents so common now? (I realise that the vents make tuning and playing much, much easier, but are they historically accurate?)
2. Was the mouthpiece of a baroque horn like the mouthpiece of a modern french horn, or more similar to the "acorn" mouthpiece of cornetti (or somewhere in between?)?
3. Obviously audiences at the time would have found out of tune notes acceptable, but to what degree? I.e, was it ok to only be able to play a diatonic scale, only harmonics, or was a player at that time required to be able to play, more or less, a chromatic scale.
4. To what extent was the hand used in horn playing?
5. When did the cornetto become no longer an acceptable substitute for the violin? (In the early baroque period this was usual, as compositions required simply "a treble instrument," but by the high baroque this was not the case even in smaller chamber pieces.)
Sorry that theres so many questions...