Mendelssohn Reformation

[Wyvern]

Rather than (typically) dragging my rear end and arriving at the facility just in time to get everything set up in time for the midday opening, I'll see about being an early bird this time. (Thanks very much for your invitation to try out those two instruments! ...and I prefer not having to compete - sonically - with all the other elephants, which will be herding themselves in soon thereafter...and I also prefer to not try to test instruments after the entire herd of 250 - 300 lb. elephants have raised the room temperature up to 80° - which makes it somewhat difficult to evaluate intonation characteristics.)

That sounds a good strategy!

[iattp]

I made a recording two years ago of me playing it on my ophicleide. I know it's not the serpent, but it's closer than a bombardon. It's still not a carnyx, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zoqfVOHZazk" target="_blank

[barry grrr-ero]

I had no idea Mendelssohn needed to reform himself. Perhaps he wrote a part for 6/4 tuba and got in trouble with the church.

[Yane]

I am given to understand Mendelssohn was an enthusiastic Lutheran, and the 5th seems to support that view. Sadly the symphony was not performed for the event it was intended, the 300th anniversary of the Reformation. What horn to use would seem to depend on the conductor’s views on HIP and the availability of a contrabassoon.

[TheTuba]

I had no idea Mendelssohn needed to reform himself. Perhaps he wrote a part for 6/4 tuba and got in trouble with the church.

If the church was headed by Pope Urban the second I would reform myself too

[roweenie]

I had no idea Mendelssohn needed to reform himself. Perhaps he wrote a part for 6/4 tuba and got in trouble with the church.

If the church was headed by Pope Urban the second I would reform myself too

Not clear as to the significance of mentioning Pope Urban II in this context, as he was pontiff over 400 years before the Reformation, and over 700 years prior to the composition of the Reformation Symphony....