[Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses

[James Butler]

IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE SIZE OF THE FUNNEL!!

Jim Butler
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anton Crouch" <a.crouch at unsw.edu.au>
To: "DJML" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 5:35 AM
Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Garden hoses


> 
> Hello all
> 
> Charlie Hooks goes-on about garden hoses  :-)
> 
> Has anybody actually heard a garden hose played with a mouthpiece?
> 
> I have a recording of such a performance! - from the Hoffnung Music
> Festival in the Festival Hall, London on 13 November 1956. Dennis Brian,
> the great horn player, gives us a fragment from Leopold Mozart's Alphorn
> Concerto - described as "third movement from Concerto for Hose-pipe and
> Strings".
> 
> The playing is amazing  - better than many efforts from the 415 Brigade
> playing "natural" horns. If Vic Dickenson ever sounded like Dennis Brain
> playing the hose-pipe, then that's wonderful.
> 
> All the best
> Anton
> 
> 
> 
> 
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