Comments on: New Bb design soon! http://medlinhorns.com/index.php/2009/02/18/bflatdesign/ Traditional horns with modern attitude Wed, 14 Jul 2010 00:13:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Richard Hirsh http://medlinhorns.com/index.php/2009/02/18/bflatdesign/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 Richard Hirsh Mon, 31 May 2010 04:48:26 +0000 http://medlinhorns.com/?p=100#comment-1021 My understanding, based on reading and some communications with Steve Ovitsky, is that Brain's Raoux was in fact a single F with descending third valve, as was commonly made for the British marketplace. Steve O. owns one. Late in his career Brain switched to an Alexander (model 90?) four valve Bb horn. The studio recording he did of the Beethoven sonata in the early 1950's has pictures showing him with an F extension in the fourth valve. There was a long thread about that on the Memphis group last year. Hans Pizka has published a complete, cleaned up version on DVD, and YouTube has lower quality versions of each movement separately, against which Hans railed at length. None of which should detract from your interesting design. Regards, Richard P.S. thanks for you kind introduction to my post on acoustic physics. My understanding, based on reading and some communications with Steve Ovitsky, is that Brain’s Raoux was in fact a single F with descending third valve, as was commonly made for the British marketplace. Steve O. owns one. Late in his career Brain switched to an Alexander (model 90?) four valve Bb horn.

The studio recording he did of the Beethoven sonata in the early 1950′s has pictures showing him with an F extension in the fourth valve. There was a long thread about that on the Memphis group last year. Hans Pizka has published a complete, cleaned up version on DVD, and YouTube has lower quality versions of each movement separately, against which Hans railed at length.

None of which should detract from your interesting design.

Regards,
Richard

P.S. thanks for you kind introduction to my post on acoustic physics.

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