Great picture of the NY Phil. Principal Brass Quintet

[Thomas Maurice Booth]

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/arts/ ... ?ref=music" target="_blank

TMB

[imperialbari]

Is that tuba of Bill Bell’s a King? The paddles make me think so.

Klaus

[cjk]

two principal horn players ???

[BVD Press]

And video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mfIfo16exw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tze2IBFp ... re=related

[imperialbari]

two principal horn players ???

I don’t know whether the NYPO had two horn sections back then. But as I understand it the Met has two horn sections of each 4 players plus a utility player (bumper, swing man, whatever). If works demand more than 4 players the sections are joined.

The Royal Orchestra in Copenhagen, which plays for opera and ballet on two different stages, has three principal horn players. The Berlin Philharmonic has two principals on horn. The Gewandhaus of Leipzig formally is one orchestra, but is staffed to serve three stages simultaneously: Concerts in the Gewandhaus, pit in the opera/ballet, and sacred concerts in Bach’s church, the St. Thomas.

Klaus

[EdFirth]

The tuba Mr Bell is holding is a King, I have one in BBb. They are wonderful instruments when everything is alligned and working properly. Supposedly there were 17 C's built and I got to play Novotny's when the current owner sent it here for a rebuild. A terrific playing/sounding tuba. The BBb's are bigger in every way than the C's and the valves work great despite their unusual spatulas. Abe Torchinsky used one of the C's on the Gabrielli triple brass choir album.Ed