jobriant wrote:And don't forget Malcom Arnold's "A Grand Grand Overture," performed at the first Hoffnung music festival in London in the 1950's. It was scored for full orchestra, three vaccuum cleaners and an electric floor polisher, and was dedicated to President Hoover.
Jim O'Briant
Gilroy, CA
I was in an orchestra that performed that. The musicians got a kick out of it but the audience seemed a little...confused. And we used just the three vacuum cleaners because the venue was carpeted.
jobriant wrote:And don't forget Malcom Arnold's "A Grand Grand Overture," performed at the first Hoffnung music festival in London in the 1950's. It was scored for full orchestra, three vaccuum cleaners and an electric floor polisher, and was dedicated to President Hoover.
Jim O'Briant
Gilroy, CA
I was in an orchestra that performed that. The musicians got a kick out of it but the audience seemed a little...confused. And we used just the three vacuum cleaners because the venue was carpeted.
MA
Well, no wonder the audience was confused...it just doesn't make any sense without the floor polisher!!
jobriant wrote:
And don't forget Malcom Arnold's "A Grand Grand Overture," performed at the first Hoffnung music festival in London in the 1950's. It was scored for full orchestra, three vaccuum cleaners and an electric floor polisher, and was dedicated to President Hoover.
OK, I'm gonna ask the hard questions now.
About the vacuum cleaners:
1) Rotor valves or pistons?
2) Lacquered finish, silver or raw brass?
3) BBb or CC?
4) How many valves?
I would’t like jelly in my bucket mute. Still I will tell you the trick to get Schleppy off your back, when he thinks he is smart:
Just say: “It is in F with 6 pistons.”
That is more than he can count on one foot by lickings its toes, so he will evaporate.
