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A short bibliographic note:

The most common name for this polka by Karel Hulak is Brinpolka. The German title appears being Brünner Polka, which reveals that the title is related to the Moravian town of Brno.

Like Wayne I like this polka, which has a very characteristic two-part baritone theme in the first section.

Wayne sent me a scan of the first page of this brass band score, which I have shrunk to fit TN.

Klaus

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7Br-9mxJ6c
http://www.scherbacher.com/product_info ... 10108.html

Schlepp and I have discussed this polka in other contexts (obviously). He presented me to the Mnozil and the Melk videos, the latter being the first link from Lars.

I find Mnozil misses the main point by using trombones on the baritone duet. Their bass trumpet player has this very mellow sound. He would have been much better on the top line.

Melk has the sound, but they play too slowly and with no spirit except in the bass solo. Their percussion has no drive at all.

The score Schlepp is selling is made by a Brit, but issued on a Swiss edition as Switzerland has a lot of Brit style brass bands. There the second link from Lars becomes interesting, because there is a button leading to this well played mp3 short sample from the brass band version:

http://www.scherbacher.com/download/10108/0038.mp3

I have been hunting good videos of the Brin Polka. The best playing (spirit, ensemble, tempo) of the concert band version is here, but there sadly is some Czech speaking in between the otherwise worthwhile performance:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSuRhifRYZc

Even this, a little less impressive, street band from Poland comes up with the right spirit:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-Yt6riwt5E

Klaus

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Try Festhausmusik in Texas. He imports from German publishers.
I just got a whole bunch of 'Krautmusik' from him.

Finding a German publisher isn’t the main problem. Lars and I could do that. The main problem is making sure the arrangement is good.

Even if I don’t like the laid-back performance of the Melk band, their arrangement could be good. And it could be Czech, as there still are connections to there from Austria.

Getting the arrangement of the Czech band would be most interesting. I guess the Czech embassy in DC has a cultural department, that might be helpful in establishing a contact to the publisher.

Klaus

Have you made any progress finding the sheet music?
I would be most interested in buying a set.

I found this set for sale at Verlag Adler, but there is little information on the instrumentation, except that the arrangement is by Franz Kühnel. Judging by the miniature score, it seems that this is a version for a proper Blaskapelle so it might be worth getting a copy. I shall be in Vienna next week so I will try and look for one.

http://www.adlermusikverlag.com/seiten/ ... olka-.html" target="_blank" target="_blank

Hello everybody,
I recently came across this recording of Brin Polka with Mnozil Brass on YouTube, amazingly:
Sorry, no clarinets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIB3Cs7SVjc
/Lars