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In Reply to: RE: Interesting! How many orchestras use special instruments? posted by TGR on December 21, 2016 at 09:39:24
A Viennese horn is fairly unique to Austria and I understand is the dickens to play. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vienna_horn Interestingly, the Austrians play a unique oboe as well rather than the French oboe used in the remainder of the world.
The Germanic countries have their unique Oehler clarinets and rotary valve trumpets. Many French bassoonists play a particular instrument unique to that country instead of the common Heckel system.
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I don't know if it's still the case, but the Cleveland Orchestra used a bass drum that was larger and tuned lower than what's typically used.....
The Cleveland Orchestra and NHK Symphony also use rotary valve trumpets for mainly German and Austrian composers.....
Most American orchestras use 4-string basses, a lot of European orchestras use 5-string basses....
The Vienna horns used by Vienna's orchestras (not just the VPO), the valve keys are shorter in length, and the action on the tubing is a "dual piston", located opposite the keys. (French horns use rotary valves.) The horns also have interchangeable lead pipes ("crooks") of varying tube length (loops) for playing in different keys.
It can be AWFULLY thin sometimes:
I believe all the instruments used by the VPO are owned by the orchestra. If that is true the variability you hear must be on either the players or the recording.
Zuleger was the primary source of the Wiener oboe but when he died, the supply of quality oboes became scarce. Yamaha was persuaded to make the Wiener oboe in 1980 or so but I am certain they lost money as the demand was not great and they ceased production.
Now, there are a handful of artisans making the instrument. The differences you hear may be due to the variety of oboes now being used in the orchestra.
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