Double Horn - Vienna Horn Comparison

A short comparison of two different builds of instrument for those who have not seen them together close-up.

The remains of my Alexander 103 built in 1954 and an Erste Wiener Genossenschaft Vienna Horn built around 1890. (Miami was incorporated 1896).

Please read this http://iwk.mdw.ac.at/Forschung/englis... - this explains about the instrument length comparisons as well as a clear diagram of the valve sections.

Please also download the article by Prof. Thomas Jöbstl about the influence of players on the sound of the Vienna Horn which is also on that page.

I will not be so bold as to suggest that one instrument is "better" than the other.

All I do know, after studying for a long time under some of the best teachers (and making these videos), is that the horn is still a very misunderstood entity. (My CV is at www.agmdigital.com).

I have kept this short. DO NOT THUMP YOUR INSTRUMENT like I do. It's interesting to hear how dead a Vienna Horn is and how important it is to realise that horns could be called resonators.

Horn plus acoustic equals tone. The horn itself doesn't "sound" it amplifies and resonates an air column that in turn resonates the concert hall acoustic.