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That's great, Rob! You can study Nancy's upholstery work on the Studebaker. I hope to have my questionable welding on the floorpans covered up with carpet by that time, too.
Holy crap, Dave! My breakfast sitteth uneasily. No swords permitted at Camp 928! Mechanical mayhem only.
Somebody should talk to Tuomo before this gets out of control.
Also, Dave, that was totally gross (so, excellent!). But am I the only one who doesn't watch GoT?
Curt, I will definitely be there barring some catastrophe. Looks like we will have almost a full Klingon starbase between Dave, Brian, John, Bob and me.
Brian, you and I will have to work on to Dave to make sure his GT is ready.
Our GoT-obsessed band director chose to play Themes from Game of Thrones at our summer concerts on the shore of Lake George. That's most of what I know about it. Good horn parts.
I planted a Starbucks cup on his podium for one performance.
It's true that I did violence to a catalytic converter with a big drill (remember Body Double?), but I can also murder notes on a horn:
Four French horns? I think the Boston Symphony only has five. The fanfares must really blow everyone's hair back.
Most music is written with four horn parts, beginning back in Beethoven's time. Before valves, they were often in pairs using horns set to different keys. When you see five, it's because the principal horn is given an assistant - to save his lip. This confuses cameramen - the principal sits second from the right (stage left). No assistant for me last summer. That's a German-engineered horn I'm playing, natch.
Mahler loved the horn and frequently wrote for eight horns - check out the end of his 1st Symphony, where he has them stand up. You'll see Sarah Willis in this clip, every horn player's dream woman. The music in the video that made VanD famous (hah!) is from Mahler's 5th. I'm obsessed.
Four French horns? I think the Boston Symphony only has five. The fanfares must really blow everyone's hair back.
That's kinda funny. My Junior-High band had eight French horns. Band director was a 'professor of French horn' (if there's such a thing...) I played horn for him for just under two years until he left for other pastures. New guy gave the horns 'ompa' parts, so I switched back to Trumpet after a quarter.
And as for the You Tube we were tricked into watching: When I started horn, sitting eighth chair, the first chair horn player, two grades above me, was to die for. Luckily, she had two younger sisters.
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