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HOLZTROMPETE (Wooden Trumpet)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 624 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOLZTROMPETE (Wooden See also:Trumpet) , an See also:instrument some-what resembling the See also:Alpenhorn (q.v.) in See also:tone-quality, designed by See also:Richard See also:Wagner for representing the natural See also:pipe of the See also:peasant in See also:Tristan and Isolde. This instrument is not unlike the See also:cor anglais in rough outline, being a conical See also:tube of approximately the same length, terminating in a small globular See also:bell, but having neither holes nor keys; it is blown through a See also:cup-shaped See also:mouthpiece made of See also:horn. The Holztrompete is inthe See also:key of C; the See also:scale is produced by overblowing, whereby the upper partials from the 2nd to the 6th are produced. A single See also:piston placed at a third of the distance from the mouth-piece to the bell gives the notes D and F. Wagner inserted a See also:note in the See also:score concerning the cor anglais for which the See also:part =rl was originally scored, and advised 3 a i s 6 the use of See also:oboe or See also:clarinet to See also:Harmonic See also:Series. reinforce the latter, the effect intended being that of a powerful natural instrument, unless a wooden instrument with a natural scale be specially made for the part, which would be preferable. The Holztrompete was used at See also:Munich for the first performance of Tristan and Isolde, and was still in use there in 1897. At See also:Bayreuth it was also used for the Tristan performances at the festivals of 1886 and 1889, but in 1891 W. Heckel's See also:clarina, an instrument partaking of the nature of both oboe and clarinet, was substituted for the Holztrompete and has been retained ever since, having been found more effective.' (K.

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